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<blockquote data-quote="ss7mm" data-source="post: 452927" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>The point I was trying to make, and evidently the point got lost in the translation, was that when something new or different comes out people tend to be scared/afraid of it and don't understand it nor do they know how to use it so a lot of them just give it a bad rep. Then there are those that use the new item wrong and thus give it a bad name.</p><p></p><p>The examples you gave of perverts only reinforces my statement that people are stupid and put too much info on social network sites and don't know how it should be set up. I know people that have several hundred "friends" on Facebook and yet probably less than a handfull of those are actual people the user knows and are really his or her face to face friends or family. Building a friends list just for the numbers is just asking for trouble and trouble is often what people end up with.</p><p></p><p>The only way somebody on Facebook can come into contact with a very questionable person is if they use their account wrong, set it up wrong and just plain repeatedly do stupid things. I will say though, that a lot of problems come from kids that don't yet have common sense doing things on the internet without their parent's knowledge. Just like a Facebook account should be handled properly I also believe that parents should know what their kids are doing on the web.</p><p></p><p>I still stand by my original statement and that is that Facebook is what you make it. It's just that simple. Allow anybody to see everything and you're asking for trouble. Allow virtually anybody to be a "friend" is asking for trouble. Use it smart, think about what you're doing and use the privacy controls the way you should and it's just as safe as this site.</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to talk anybody into using Facebook nor am I trying to force them to, I'm just stating a fact and that is that if you use it correctly Facebook can be a great way to keep up to date and in contact with family and friends. There are some well know professionals on this site that are on Facebook and their pages are run correctly and they have no problems. Use Facebook wrong and it can mean serious consequences just like using an automobile wrong. Use either one correctly and it ends up being a nice experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ss7mm, post: 452927, member: 5"] The point I was trying to make, and evidently the point got lost in the translation, was that when something new or different comes out people tend to be scared/afraid of it and don't understand it nor do they know how to use it so a lot of them just give it a bad rep. Then there are those that use the new item wrong and thus give it a bad name. The examples you gave of perverts only reinforces my statement that people are stupid and put too much info on social network sites and don't know how it should be set up. I know people that have several hundred "friends" on Facebook and yet probably less than a handfull of those are actual people the user knows and are really his or her face to face friends or family. Building a friends list just for the numbers is just asking for trouble and trouble is often what people end up with. The only way somebody on Facebook can come into contact with a very questionable person is if they use their account wrong, set it up wrong and just plain repeatedly do stupid things. I will say though, that a lot of problems come from kids that don't yet have common sense doing things on the internet without their parent's knowledge. Just like a Facebook account should be handled properly I also believe that parents should know what their kids are doing on the web. I still stand by my original statement and that is that Facebook is what you make it. It's just that simple. Allow anybody to see everything and you're asking for trouble. Allow virtually anybody to be a "friend" is asking for trouble. Use it smart, think about what you're doing and use the privacy controls the way you should and it's just as safe as this site. I'm not trying to talk anybody into using Facebook nor am I trying to force them to, I'm just stating a fact and that is that if you use it correctly Facebook can be a great way to keep up to date and in contact with family and friends. There are some well know professionals on this site that are on Facebook and their pages are run correctly and they have no problems. Use Facebook wrong and it can mean serious consequences just like using an automobile wrong. Use either one correctly and it ends up being a nice experience. [/QUOTE]
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