How many of your Facebook friends do you hate?

True Story:

A few years ago, I cut my friends list from 1250 down to 250.

What's a Face Book?

not using it so luckily none

I don't hate any of them.

Some of them might even be Jewish for all I know....and I still don't hate them......despite ugly Internet rumors to the contrary.

Just the ones I wound up deleting.

I have never been on facebook.

You couldn't pay me to have a facebook page.

One, I'm very solitary. It would be irritating to constantly be getting messages from people. Half the time that I'm home, I don't even pick up a ringing phone unless I know who it is.

Two, I want as little personal information about me available to the general public. I don't think the security protocols they have in place are secure enough. I don't want information hacked, nor my whereabouts known at any given time. Too many victims of crime have been active facebook users. I don't want strangers to be able to see what I look like, and where I go frequently.

The youngsters right now seem to have no sense of privacy or personal boundaries. Yes, I am older, from a different time, and I question the wisdom of being so open with personal information.

I deleted my Facebook account a decade ago and don't miss it but the majority of people I had on it were people I knew offline and I never had anybody I hated on it. Why would you keep people you hate on your Facebook?

rachelcarson1953



Your basically right as random sites are hacked fairly often nowadays.

so while that might help by staying off the radar to some degree, some it is out of your control like the Equifax hack (back in 2017) that effected close to half of the USA with peoples social security numbers etc. so basically you can't stop everything.

the problem with many is there is no real penalty for them if your information gets hacked so many are not that concerned with keeping it secure like they claim they do.

although some basic measures can be taken for anything you care about online (like say banking/ordering stuff online etc) like using a password manager that makes a long unique randomly generated password for each website and stores it in a encrypted file on your computer. so you only got to remember the master password (which you need to remember this and don't make it easily guessable etc) which once entered gives you access to the websites and username/password info to the sites you use. this is more secure in the sense if one site did get hacked that you use and your password gets exposed you don't have to worry about it effecting your other websites since you will have a unique/secure password for every website you use. from what I heard... a lot of people use pretty much the same password (and half-assed ones at that) for multiple websites which is a bad idea because if that password ever becomes compromised then those people could potentially access your other sites pretty easily. NOTE: if you use this method make sure to backup the encrypted password database file which is located on your computers hard drive. because say your computers hard drive dies, you won't lose the database file and will have backup copies (like on a couple of different flash drives stored somewhere you trust etc) so you can restore things otherwise it will be a huge pain in the butt if you lose it.

another thing... some websites have things setup so if you forget your password you have to answer some questions about yourself like say 'What's the name of your pet?' or 'What's the city you grew up in?' etc. but the problem with these is if you answer honestly (and it's a fairly easy to guess thing) it's a weak link as even if you had a really secure password that you use to log into a website, it could be potentially easily bypassed by this stuff which is why on those sites that use security questions you should treat them like a secondary password in that you don't actually answer it honestly but generate a random password for the answers to those. that will stop someone from guessing it to reset your password. just make sure not to forget these things. but this kind of info can be stored in your password manager which I basically talked about above.