FaceBook

[alfsauve]

IF YOU HAVE KIDS  using Facebook, then you definitely need to have an account and be their "friend".  That way you get to see what they're posting and what their friends are posting in return.   

This isn't like a forum or a usenet group.   You have to allow people to be "connected" to you before they can view your information or post things to your account.   And you can cut them off anytime you want.   So if you don't know the person, you just refuse their request.   Like I said, these are real people using their real names.  No trolls.

And it is a great way to share your shooting sport without getting in peoples face.   Subtle links to RKBA site, etc.

Feel free to look me up. 

Alf Sauve

[Teresa Heilevang]

Dan, glad to see you joined in the fun.

Any does or don'ts on not getting sent to the corner or a time out from your mom?

LOL.......... Oh he could tell you plenty of DO'S and how to get sent to the corner..

but he got out of it lots of time too.. by making me believe things I shouldn't have believed.. 
 Kids have a way of doing that you know..

But he has a daughter now... soooooooooooooooo.. pay backs are hell. 

[Maggie]

I use facebook to catch up with old friends, but mostly I use it as a business tool.  It's a good way to get your name or trade out there. 
         Maggie

[Big Frank]

I just signed up and I already found 2 guys I know. Maybe our high school will have a 30 year reunion this year.

[philw]

I just signed up and I already found 2 guys I know. Maybe our high school will have a 30 year reunion this year.

yep definitely a good way to catch up with old mates


also can back fire

like  when the Mrs starts sending Pics to Mates so I then get crap  ( the fairy thing )

not that anyone here would "Sledge" any of there mates    now  would they

[Sponsor]

[Marshal Halloway]

Well, Danny got me going on this Facebook thingy and we even added a Down Range TV group.

[Teresa Heilevang]

I have had so many requests to get started in it.. sooooooooooooooooo
Guess I have to quit dragging my feet and do it..

[Teresa Heilevang]

I'm on it............
 It looks like it could be fun... but it is going to take some more work later tonight when I have more time..

so??? lets be "friends".. ( kinda like passing a note in school isn't it. LOL)

[philw]

Well, Danny got me going on this Facebook thingy and we even added a Down Range TV group.

very cool 

[Pathfinder]

Be cool, though, and careful.

Facebook Membership May Be Forever
Monday, February 16, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494064,00.html

Once a Facebook member, always a member.

The Consumerist blog noticed Sunday that the social-networking giant had quietly made a change to its user Terms of Service (TOS) on Feb. 4.

Facebook now declares that it has a perpetual license to use anything you post to your own Facebook page — even if you terminate your account.

Here's the licensing part of the legalese, which sounds bad enough:

"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."

In other words, while it doesn't actually own your photos, scribblings and status updates — you do — Facebook can do whatever it wants with it, whenever it wants, in order to promote itself or create or sell ads.

Theoretically, it can even "license" a picture of your kids for use in a third party's ad campaign.

Most of that has been part of the Facebook Terms of Service for a while. After all, without user-generated content, Facebook would be nothing.

What's been removed is this: "If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however (sic) you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."

And what's been added is this: "The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service" — after which follows a list of most of the sections on the Terms of Service page.

So even if you decide Facebook isn't for you, the site can still use anything you posted. It's all been archived.

"I'm done with Facebook," declared blogger Ed Champion upon learning of the TOS changes.

He seemed more annoyed at the older blanket license than the new never-say-die part of the legalese — ironic considering that if he'd deleted his account before Feb. 4 his account really would have been gone for good.

A Facebook representative told the Chicago Tribune that the Web site would soon issue a response to Consumerist's posting.