It confuses the hell out of me.
Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:23,
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Few simple rules:1) Most of the applications are pure spam. Few have any real value, and some are a royal pain in the arse - see 2)
2) Avoid Superwall, Funwall and their heinous brethren like the plague. They allow other users to post stuff to your profile, which will invariably include chain letters, novelty porn, goatse and everything else glasscock. They make your profile look like a first-year student's inbox and it's the quickest way to tell visitors to your profile "I AM A COMPLETE IDIOT".
3) Avoid putting personal information like your full birthday on your profile. The quickest way to identity theft is telling everyone on the internet your details.
4) Everyone uses their HappyToast zombie pic on their profile at some point. But you knew that already :)
(2) Avoid Superwall, Funwall and their heinous brethren like the plague. They allow other users to post stuff to your profile, which will invariably include chain letters, novelty porn, goatse and everything else glasscock. They make your profile look like a first-year student's inbox and it's the quickest way to tell visitors to your profile "I AM A COMPLETE IDIOT".
3) Avoid putting personal information like your full birthday on your profile. The quickest way to identity theft is telling everyone on the internet your details.
4) Everyone uses their HappyToast zombie pic on their profile at some point. But you knew that already :)
emvee cruor deo cruoris,
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:31,
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^this, butre: 3) - You can restrict info to friends. So long as you keep to this rule:
5) Only friend people that you have met in meatspace (IRL).
As for the application-spam stuff, they try dirty tricks like : "Don't let your friend down by not adding this!" when someone clicks on the, I dunno, "Ask all the people on my list about this stupid shit!!" button.
(5) Only friend people that you have met in meatspace (IRL).
As for the application-spam stuff, they try dirty tricks like : "Don't let your friend down by not adding this!" when someone clicks on the, I dunno, "Ask all the people on my list about this stupid shit!!" button.
The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:37,
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yes to 5)for sure
though I have a couple of fb-friends I've only met online, I know them sufficiently well to bend the rule.
The applications I'm working on atm will be 100% spam-free. Yay.
(though I have a couple of fb-friends I've only met online, I know them sufficiently well to bend the rule.
The applications I'm working on atm will be 100% spam-free. Yay.
emvee cruor deo cruoris,
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:47,
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