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Ok, whats the pro's and con's of becoming friends with someone on the vine?
I thought we were all friends anyway!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Must admit, it's all very confusing to me but then again I'm one of the people who avoid anything like Facebook like the plague so I'm probably not the right person to ask.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
just noticed that the email address on my profile that i used to sign up with is visible to all. i have now changed mine from my 'real' one to a spam one just incase. or is it just me being paranoid??
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Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Bob Dylan
"just noticed that the email address on my profile that i used to sign up with is visible to all."
I am as good as certain that I never ticked that box at registration, so it may be something that got changed during the upgrade. I fight very hard to avoid spam, so I personally find that change [if it is that] very irritating.
To disable it:
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Uncheck "You can allow other members to send you email messages."
"is it just me being paranoid??"
Absolutely not. All sorts of low-life use automated spiders that will harvest email addresses and use them for nefarious purposes - not just selling them for Spam lists, but tracking where you are known on the internet, and so on. Did you post in the Dwain thread? That establishes a view attached to an Email address ...
An Email address is one thing that links reliably to you (your address is likely to have slightly different presentations, which make it harder to match the instances).
Uncheck "You can allow other members to send you email messages."
"is it just me being paranoid??"
Absolutely not. All sorts of low-life use automated spiders that will harvest email addresses and use them for nefarious purposes - not just selling them for Spam lists...
The automated collecting of email addresses has been going on 'forever' why is the default not set to 'not showing it'???
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
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