No Facebook for the family.

[danny at dannysplace.net (Danny Carroll)]

PJ McGarvey wrote:
> Agreed again.  I don't use Facebook or Myspace, but when my wife jumped
> into it head first, I made sure she knew what she was getting into.  It
> taught her some lessons in access control, and self-control when it
> comes to what you post and what you accept and click on.  Those
> lessons have now also spread to her sister, mother and friends, as well
> as other aspects of her day to day computing.  Let someone else be the
> low hanging fruit for another Facecrook.

I've avoided facebook entirely.   Lately I've been thinking of signing
up if only to have a 'holder' account so nobody else signs up on my behalf.

Having never used the app, I'd be curious to know exactly what lessons
you taught your family.  Is it a case of:
  - Don't install apps.
  - Don't post about private stuff (like our home address)
  - Don't accept invites just to be polite.  Only accept them from
people you really do want to connect with?

Or is there something more to it than that?


> When she needs to connect to the odd open wireless access point, ssh to
> our home network, and proxy her web browsing through it, she can still
> call me ;-)   

Wow, I wish my wife was even remotely that tech savvy.

-D