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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 1

No Facebook account. And no plans for the future. Facebooks opinion about privacy is a little too creepy I think.

I have a LinkedIn account though, at least that seems professional 🙂

My wife is even worse than me. She is practically "invisible" on the internet.

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David Benoit SSC-Dedicated Points: 34562 More actions · Answer 2

I use FaceBook but overall don't find it profitable. More than anything I find it concerning for the next generation that don't know how to communicate in any verbal form as their lives are consumed with texting, FaceBook posts, tweets, etc.

Social networking is actually anti-social.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259015 More actions · Answer 3

David Benoit (1/6/2011)

I use FaceBook but overall don't find it profitable. More than anything I find it concerning for the next generation that don't know how to communicate in any verbal form as their lives are consumed with texting, FaceBook posts, tweets, etc.

Social networking is actually anti-social.

Not to mention that in a lot of cases the grammar of those kids drops significantly to a lower level.

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RP_DBA SSCertifiable Points: 5116 More actions · Answer 4

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January 6, 2011 at 8:25 am

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I have a facebook account that I update very infrequently. Use it mainly to share pics and kid news with friends and family.

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95405 More actions · Answer 5

ALZDBA (1/6/2011)

I polled for the third option 😛

I guess I hit enter... I've PM'd Steve to see if he can take it out, all I can do is edit the post itself, not the poll. 🙁

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January 6, 2011 at 9:01 am

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I don't use it. I joined just because a friend has it and had posted some pictures of a trip. My daughters use it all the time.

TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 7

I don't have an account.

Some of the tricks that the owners have played from time to time with terms and conditions and with privacy features buried so as to be almost impossible to invoke I wouldn't trust anything to that site, so there's little prospect of me ever having an account (except perhaps using completely fake data and a disposable email, if there's ever a good reason for it, which seems unlikely).

The link mtillman posted is nice description of some of what is wrong with it.

Tom

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 172918 More actions · Answer 8

Tom.Thomson (1/6/2011)

Some of the tricks that the owners have played from time to time with terms and conditions and with privacy features buried so as to be almost impossible to invoke I wouldn't trust anything to that site, so there's little prospect of me ever having an account (except perhaps using completely fake data and a disposable email, if there's ever a good reason for it, which seems unlikely).

Ditto again. The thing I hate about Facebook is that if I join and then decide to leave, I can deactivate the account, but it will take me moving mountains to actually getting it deleted. That's (and the above) are the biggest reasons I don't want to have anything to do with it.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281324 More actions · Answer 9

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Tom.Thomson (1/6/2011)

Some of the tricks that the owners have played from time to time with terms and conditions and with privacy features buried so as to be almost impossible to invoke I wouldn't trust anything to that site, so there's little prospect of me ever having an account (except perhaps using completely fake data and a disposable email, if there's ever a good reason for it, which seems unlikely).

Ditto again. The thing I hate about Facebook is that if I join and then decide to leave, I can deactivate the account, but it will take me moving mountains to actually getting it deleted. That's (and the above) are the biggest reasons I don't want to have anything to do with it.

Ditto Ditto Ditto

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 728159 More actions · Answer 10

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ALZDBA (1/6/2011)

I polled for the third option 😛

I guess I hit enter... I've PM'd Steve to see if he can take it out, all I can do is edit the post itself, not the poll. 🙁

no tool to edit this out once someone has picked it. I don't have time to dig through the db to fix it now.

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mtillman-921105 SSCertifiable Points: 7156 More actions · Answer 11

Brandie Tarvin (1/6/2011)

Tom.Thomson (1/6/2011)

Some of the tricks that the owners have played from time to time with terms and conditions and with privacy features buried so as to be almost impossible to invoke I wouldn't trust anything to that site, so there's little prospect of me ever having an account (except perhaps using completely fake data and a disposable email, if there's ever a good reason for it, which seems unlikely).

Ditto again. The thing I hate about Facebook is that if I join and then decide to leave, I can deactivate the account, but it will take me moving mountains to actually getting it deleted. That's (and the above) are the biggest reasons I don't want to have anything to do with it.

That's a good point and raises another one that's kind of scary. Even if your data's deleted, it's not necessarily gone forever either. It get's backed up and copied anyway.

Years ago, I read an eye-opening article by a network admin. who said to be careful with every email you send. Because of so many backups and the emails going through so many servers, your great, great grandchildren may read your emails some day. :w00t: I'm sure that applies to everything else we put on the internet - Facebook or not.

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OCTom SSChampion Points: 11785 More actions · Answer 12

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January 6, 2011 at 12:17 pm

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I have a Facebook account. I don't use it much. There are way too may posts for me to keep up. Besides, I don't need to know what someone is doing or feeling at a particular moment in time.

It's all really very frivolous. At least the stuff I see is.

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95405 More actions · Answer 13

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WayneS (1/6/2011)

ALZDBA (1/6/2011)

I polled for the third option 😛

I guess I hit enter... I've PM'd Steve to see if he can take it out, all I can do is edit the post itself, not the poll. 🙁

no tool to edit this out once someone has picked it. I don't have time to dig through the db to fix it now.

FYI, there are no votes for the empty, third option (as of now). Don't know if that makes a difference or not...

Wayne
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If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2