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

[Antony Jones]

> 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.

That's big, cool and clever!

I don't know who decided that people not on facebook were automatically
cooler than those who are on facebook, but they're wrong.

Cheers,

Ant

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:58 +0000, Lloyd Raworth wrote:
> 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.