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Ärende: Fidonews Volume 29 Number 5 Articles: Things To Know About FB
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Some Things You Should Know about FaceBook
    By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net
    
    Facebook's timeline is their new replacement for your home
    page, or profile page.  This time line is a
    reverse-chronological history of everything you've posted
    on Facebook as well as a display of other life events that
    you've recorded there...  such as job history, friends,
    photos, status updates, ..  well anything you've provided
    since you logged into FaceBook.
    
    This new "feature" replaces and combines a user's Facebook
    "Wall" and "Profile" pages and as it stands right now, will
    be non-optional.
    
    I haven't seen a specific date give for when everyone will
    have this feature enabled, but given the way facebook
    normally does things, I expect it will be turned on for
    lots or batches of users.  Various sources have indicated
    that the time frame for this overall Facebook
    implementation will be 'soon'.
    
    Once You Turn it On: 
    
    From what I've read, once you start using it you'll have 7
    days to delete anything you don't want made "publically
    available" on your timeline...  but once you turn your
    timeline on, you _can't_ turn it off.  It's there to stay.
    
    After You Turn it On:
    
    Now when you log into facebook, you'll still see the normal
    "feed page"..  but when users or you yourself go to what
    was your facebook profile or home page, you and they
    will see your timeline.  People can "page back" as far as
    they'd like into your timeline history.
    
    FaceBook notes that this feature will integrate with 3rd
    party companies so that was enough for me to say, "No
    Thanks FB, I'm OUTTA HERE"
    
    Paranoid of me?  Perhaps.. but I don't need FaceBook
    tracking my purchases, my travel, and yes.. even FaceBook
    Chat.  They know where you travel via the web because of
    cookies they've installed - even if you are not logged into
    FaceBook. 
    
    See below to see how to remove FaceBook Cookies  :)
    
    
    
    How to Delete Your Account on FaceBook:
    
    Note!  It takes 14 days for Facebook to officially delete
    your account.  If you log into your account before those 14
    days are up you’ll need to restart your account delete
    process.  This is the most complicated part of the process,
    especially if you have used another site to log onto
    FaceBook.
    
    So my advice is to first, make a list of any sites which
    are not FaceBook itself that uses the "connect" feature. 
    
    Go each of those sites and close your account there,
    because if you log into any of them over the 14 day period
    you’ll have to remove your FaceBook account again.  You can
    always recreate those accounts later.
    
    Quick and Simple:
    
    If you've never logged onto FaceBook from another Web site,
    you can probably just follow these instructions to delete
    your account.  Keep in mind though the same 14 day "crap"
    period applies, so if in that 14 day time period you go
    back to FaceBook, your account will be automatically
    re-instated.
    
    Step 1.  Go to http://www.facebook.com
    
    Step 2.  Enter your email and password and sign into your
             current account.
    
    Step 3.  Once you are on the Main Page, up in the TOP RIGHT
             corner of the screen, there is a an Account
             prompt.  
             
             Click on "Account" and a drop-down menu
             is displayed.  
             
             Click on "Account Settings".
             
    Step 4.  Find "Deactivate Account" on the bottom of the
             next screen.  Click "deactivate" (Note: Continue,
             because you are NOT deativated yet <grin>).
    
    Step 5.  On the next screen, Facebook asks you why you are
             deactivating your account and gives you a list of
             choices, with an option to explain further if you
             care to do so.  I let them know I wasn't happy
             with being forced into using the timeline <grin>.  
             I was polite against my better judgement Lol.
    
             Importantly, you can also opt out of emails from
             Facebook pals, etc. so you should probably mark
             this as well.  If you don't you'll still get
             emails from facebook regarding invites, tags, etc. 
             
    Step 6.  You'll be told something like, "You are about to
             permanently delete your account.  Are you sure?"
             Enter your password and the captcha graphic image
             on the page, and when ready click "Okay".
    
             Your account will now be cancelled... BUT remember
             if you go back to FaceBook for anything in that 14
             day period, you'll have to start with #1 again :)
             
             
    FaceBook Follows You Online Even when You are Logged Out
    
    We all know that sites use cookies and FaceBook is no
    different.. ANY page you go to with FaceBook tools, icons,
    buttons, whatever, will capture your activity and then send
    it FaceBook.  
    
    I think this is totally unacceptable.  To stop this
    behavior by sites I visit, the cookies must be deleted. 
    Here's how I did it:
    
    (I use FireFox, but I expect most browsers will be somewhat
    the same as far as removing cookies go)
    
    Go to FireFox->Edit->Preferences in the top menu.
    Click on Privacy.
    Click on "remove individual cookies"
    Type facebook in the seach bar.  All the cookies that
         FaceBook uses to track you will be displayed.
    Hold down the shift key and click on each Facebook cookie
         to select all of them at once. Click on "remove
         cookies."
    
    Ah.. that felt almost as good as deleting my FaceBook
    Account.
    
    
             
             
    
             
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    FIDONEWS Vol 29 No 05               Page 5           January 30, 2012

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