[SEL] on facebook?

[Tony & Jackie]

You can change the account settings so that your profile can only be 
viewed by your friends.  Even so, I still don't put a whole lot of 
info on it.  Just a few pics of the family and my various 
projects.  The only reason I joined is because it's a nice convenient 
way to share pictures and stay in touch with your friends and 
family.  Facebook has put me back in touch with at least a dozen of 
my old friends from school that I hadn't talked to in years.

Of course, a lot of the older people won't take to it like the 
younger generation will.  But then again, I remember back when the 
SEL was a new-fangled contraption to a lot of people.  Nowadays it 
would be considered an archaic technology by most.  A lot changes in 
only 10-15 years...

-Tony



At 03:40 AM 7/16/2009, you wrote:
>Hi Kevin, this could happen from your SEL postings too - who says
>everyone here is an engine person. The trick is to give only the minimum
>information that someone could already know from say the whitepages
>phonebook (or its electronic equivalent).
>
>Anyone who posts personal or secret information publicly is simply a
>fool waiting to be conned. Bring on the etheopians with their surplus
>bank balances :).
>
>I probably have more information about myself on www.steamengine.com.au
>than I do on facebook.
>
>I agree that facebook is really a marketing machine - but that is easy -
>so they target ads at you. So what? You don't have to look at them.
>No-one makes you.
>
>I'm not an evangalist by any means and for a long time resisted joining
>for much the same reason you give - then I realised it was entirely up
>to me just how much I tell them.
>
>Regards
>Paul