Facebook is at it again.

As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-Facebook websites and its automatically set to” Allow." Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Edit Settings under Instant Personalization (at the bottom) and uncheck "Allow."
Sorry to say, but Facebook is proving my initial observation of them. How can they just release personal info to non-Facebook sites?
As I’ve stated before, BE CAREFUL.

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How can some people sleep at night?

I don’t know if it’s my faith, the way I was raised, or just that I’ve never thought of purposely cheating anyone, but I heard the most shocking thing today.
I built a computer for someone from church, we’ll call them Mr. & Mrs. W, and when I was all done setting it up at their house, they asked me to go through a pile of software cds to see which ones they needed & which ones were garbage.
I came across a homemade copy of AVG Antivirus & SpyBot Search & Destroy and asked where it came from. What they told me almost knocked me out of my chair.
They said that a local computer store sold it to them for $10.00.
$10.00!! I couldn’t believe it. Both programs are free on the internet and the CD was probably $0.50 or less if purchased in a spindle of 50 or 100.
I don’t know why I was so shocked. The same store is the reason I got the W’s as customers in the first place. These folks took their “slow” computer to said computer store only to be told they needed a new computer. They were told that nothing could be done and that their computer was on it’s last leg and would soon die. But have no fear! “We have a shipment of new computers coming in on Thursday.” This is also when they sold them the $10.00 disk.
God caused our paths to cross and I saved them a lot of money and added a loyal customer to my list.
Instead of going to bed one Sunday morning after a midnight turn, I went to church. After church as we were leaving to go home, our minister asked Mr. W what they had planned for the day. Mr. W told him they had to go window shopping for computers and asked what our minister knew about computers. The minister immediately pointed at me and said, “There is the man you want to talk to.” He told me his story and I told him to hold off a day and I would be over the next day to check it out.
I showed up the following day to take a look at their computer. I first checked the defragment tool. There was more red on the screen than a Freddie Kruger movie. I cleaned that up and then ran “CCleaner” to clean up temp files, temp internet files, and a whole lot more useless files. 2GBs later, the computer seemed to run a whole lot faster than before. By the time I was done, they thought they had a new computer. That must have been one strong leg because a year and a half later, the computer is still running strong. The only reason that I built them a new one was that they out grew the old one.
So if anyone needs protection software, give me a call, I have plenty of free programs I can throw onto a CD and sell you. Just Kidding, but if you are looking for software, checkout the links I have to FREE software on the righthand side of this page.

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Facebook Flub Leaks Private E-mail Addresses

The following link will take you to an article about the title of this blog post.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,193009/article.html


As I stated in my post of Febuary 3,2010, Facebook and the other Social Engineering sites have their good points, but you also have to look out for the bad.

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