[evil]dauerbach last posted to the SDMB today at 12:25 PM.[/evil]
Am I supposed to “like” this or “tweet” this?
Or perhaps “Tebow” this?
Gawd I feel old. And get off my lawn!
If I’m understanding this correctly–and I might not be–you are upset because Facebook “captured” your email address when you attempted to use it to log in.
In other words, your email address is your user login. Which you presumably gave to Facebook lo these many years ago when you first signed up. Because otherwise they would not have a record of it, along with your password, to let you sign in to your account.
I’m not really mad about websites keeping a record of what my user login is so that I can, you know, log in to them when I want to.
Well, I don’t own a television, and I only watch PBS.
Oh, puhleeze. With all the genuine examples of Facebook’s sleazy business practices (e.g. their repeated three-card-monte game with the privacy settings they hide at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard”), this is what you come up with?
Update Firefox to 8.0.1 or update Safari to 5.1.1. Works fine on either.
Just out of curiosity, why are you using a version of Firefox that old? The latest version for Mac is 9.0! I imagine a lot of web sites don’t look right for you.
Websites won’t look right in a six month old browser?
2-year-old browser. Firefox 3.6 was released in January 2010.
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Just out of curiosity, why are you using a version of Firefox that old? The latest version for Mac is 9.0! I imagine a lot of web sites don’t look right for you.
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Because I hate change. I did do it tho (however, it claims that 8.0 is the latest version), and had my hate for change supported by the fact that my favoritest game now doesn’t work right. Facebook does - not sure that’s a good trade. :dubious:
I’ve got location services turned off for Facebook on my mobile, but a recent status update somehow includes an approximation of my location anyway. WTF?
Location services is phone-side using GPS or wireless towers. Facebook (or any other entity, like SDMB moderators) can still figure out approximately where you are based on your IP.
But who asked them to include it in my status update? I’ve got my privacy settings I thought that would prevent this.
Not just phone any more - it does it on the web by ISP too. Or at least it does on my profile. You now have to actively click the “x” beneath your status input bar to cancel it. Now that is evil.
Facebook keeps changing those settings to what you would have chosen if you knew the benefits of living in a glass house…
I don’t get Facebook-I have a site, but I check it every 4-6 months. I have a friend who posts daily on FB-he links to local news stories, and he must have several million FB friends.
What do you get for such efforts?
Social interaction.
Interesting.
On my Windows box, I have Firefox 8.0, which it says is the latest.
On my Mac, I have Firefox 9.0, which it says is the latest.
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:38, topic:606613”]
Interesting.
On my Windows box, I have Firefox 8.0, which it says is the latest.
On my Mac, I have Firefox 9.0, which it says is the latest.
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Also interesting, because I have Firefox 8.0 on my Windows box and 8.0.1 on my Mac. Both say they are up to date. The Firefox website also says 8.0.1 is the current Mac version.
I’ve noticed that if I want to update my Android Facebook app it seems that I have to include location identification. So I assume it wants to use the phone network or wireless IP addresses to identify my location to Facebook, the same way Google or Apple does.