[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[Lloyd Raworth]

Hi, Happy New Year and all that ...

Shortly before xmas, in response to an invite, I tried to open a  
Facebook account/page/site/whatever it's called. My application was  
refused. Facebook told me this was because the email address I tried  
to use was unacceptable as it "could be the address of a business"  
and Facebook does not accept applications from businesses. So I just  
thought 'fine' and left it at that. Rejected by Facebook. +1 on my  
street cred. Yippee.

But I've now noticed that there is a page on Facebook using my name  
and an unfamiliar gmail address here: http://www.facebook.com/people/ 
Lloyd_Raworth/695772392. I realise there may be another Lloyd Raworth  
somewhere, but I'm also concerned about the possibility of Facebook  
setting this page up without my consent as some yucky sort of  
'favour' in order to 'entice' me back after I didn't reapply with a  
different email address. Paranoid? Hmmm. As Andy has sensibly pointed  
out, we're talking about the CIA here. The fact that this page is  
still blank hasn't assuaged my suspicion.

As anyone else had this experience? Can anyone enlighten me on the  
possible legal options here? Suing Facebook for identity theft and  
copyright infringement would be a splendid start to 08.

TIA

Best regards,

Lloyd Raworth





Andy wrote:

 >Facebook is, as far as I can tell mostly owned by the CIA and the

 >American government. So now they know who you are, who you mates are,
 >your politic, what you look like etc etc etc and they are free to do
 >whatever they like with this data.

 >So who is going to abandon sinister social networking sites?

 >Or do you need the nipple that badly. Seriously, this thing needs to
 >be destroyed.