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Kersti
, 27-05-2010 at 11:31 AM (1125 Views)
So what's with the Kersti InTatters account? It basically comes down to a major privacy issue.

I want to be friends with all tatters, and I want to share with you all. However, I found out that someone had managed to become friends with a couple of other tatters and then with me - I accepted as the profile picture was a piece of tatting. The person then made a few comments to me that made me aware that they were not who they said they were - and it appears that the reason for it was to glean information and basically stalk me. It's all related to a less than fun personal thing going on at the moment.

In looking into it I could see the web, it was rather cleaver - attach yourself to people who have a LOT of friends who are connected to the victim, make sure that all photos are of the craft/hobby (further investigation showed them all to be stolen from easy-to find sources) and then ask to be friends. I didn't suspect as I honestly didn't think that the person involved would do that.

Once connected, start sending messages to your victims friends to try to undermine their friendships.

As a result, in order to protect myself and my family I have decided to move all tatting related things here. Sure, I'll share my work on my other profile, but it will close the door on one way that people can get access who really shouldn't have. I find that facebook's privacy settings are unweildy with the numbers of contacts that I have here to make that work for me in this situation.

So, if I unfriend you on my other account please don't take it personally - I really need to shut as many doors as I can and I want to keep my tatting friends while closing those doors.
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  1. Green Gal's Avatar
    Dear Kersti.
    Its horrible that you have to protect yourself this way. Just take care. Maybe getting a huge dog wouldnt go amiss. I think facebook are going to change their privacy settings because of the murder we had recently of that young girl but its better to be careful anyway.
    Kathy
  2. Valerie's Avatar
    kersti, actually i'm thinking of doing something along the same lines, and more. i'd thought of removing all personal contents, including photos of me, my friends and family, leaving only those of my crafts (but with watermarks added before posting). but that also makes me think if it defeats the whole point about joining FB at all!

    over news on tv today, the creator of FB announced that he'd done changes to make privacy settings simpler: just one button to control all content that can be seen only by friends, friends of friends or everyone.

    hey green gal, how does FB implicate the murder of a young girl? that's horrifying!
  3. Green Gal's Avatar
    Valerie, I wasnt really paying attention to the news program (I was tatting) but I think it happened this way.
    On her facebook page she had how much she liked animals so he introduced himself as a member of a injured wildlife rescue service (something like that). He arranged to meet her in the bush to discuss her getting a job with them and he murdered her. She was quite young and beautiful and the changing of the FB privacy is in response to this as they say that people havent properly understood how to use the privacy settings. FB say that if she had used them correctly she would have been save from this stranger.
    My friends daughter is on FB and her and her friends often put contact details and where they are going after schoo,l phone numbers etc. So I get onto the girls and get them to remove them. So I will be making sure they change their privacy settings but think I might leave mine the same.
  4. patrice's Avatar
    Hi,all,I am not on facebook-but my family is...My25 year old daughter keeps all important facts-hidden,but my husband knows less about facebook-so he isn't sure how to hide information.
    I was on facebook-for about a month,last year-and found it to be similar to a virtual junior high school.I wasn't too popular then,I don't care what those same folks think of me now-thirty years later-honestly.
    I think a good rule to follow is...don't put anything on line-that you don't want the whole world to know.EVERYTHING is ACCESSIBLE.
    Nuff said.
  5. dbrn's Avatar
    What a terrible experience, Kersti. I'm not on Facebook, but my husband is, and I've told him in the past to remove things. He thought it was fairly safe at first, but he's considering cancelling his account. I'm going to STRONGLY encourage it.
  6. PattyD's Avatar
    Yikes! And you are techno-savvy well above the norm. Do what you need to do to feel safe. We have access to you right here.
  7. lebasi Aneres's Avatar
    Hola,!! creo que es necesario en internet ser precavido... Yo no pongo ningún dato mio, ... solo acepto amistades que hagan frivolité y alguna que otra amiga personal que aquí se encuentra....no pongo fotos ni datos personales, Internet esta muy bien, pero hay que tener unas normas de seguridad básicas.... Es como en la vida real, .... yo en mi vida tomo ciertas precauciones como no ir a ciertos sitios a determinadas horas..... Solo es cuestión de sentido común ... Creo que esta chica, no las tomó y ahí el resultado....

    Hello!!!!! , I believe we must be careful online ... I do not put any data mine, ... I only accept friends who do tatting and one or personal friend is here .... I do not post pictures and personal information, Internet is fine, but you have basic safety standards .... It's like in real life .... in my life I took certain precautions like not going to certain places at certain times ..... It is only common sense ... I think this girl, not made and that the result ....
  8. victats's Avatar
    Its wild that someone would do that. There's no way you could have predicted such an outcome. How crapy that some nut ruined your fun.
  9. Joy's Avatar
    Due to warnings via TV lots of Facebook folks are closing their accouts...I thank God that I never had an account with them
    Hugs
    Joy
  10. mcoperryl@gmail.com's Avatar
    What are those awful questionnaires that are being posted? It reminded me of those notes that got passed around in class about someone with made up junk in them. I just had my account permanently deleted. Facebook is probably a great tool for some and a social outlet for others. It's just not for me....I don't care when people I haven't seen since high school turn out the lights.
  11. bjulia_lacer's Avatar
    I am still in facebook, but have not had any problems with them, so far. Because quite a few of my nieces and nephews are in there to, I hate to close it at this time. There not tatters, so it's just more light things that we discuss. I'll keep checking it however to make sure....thanks for the warnings!