Comments on: Finding Love on Facebook http://www.lovesites.com/finding-love-on-facebook Providing online dating service reviews, dating advice and tips for singles looking for love, dates and romance online. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nicole http://www.lovesites.com/finding-love-on-facebook/comment-page-1#comment-1497 Nicole Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:06:35 +0000 http://www.lovesites.com/?p=652#comment-1497 Well, I didn't even realize that facebook nowadays is slowly becoming a dating site. :D But anyway, nothing's impossible. Since facebook allows us to find people and add friends of friends, we may be able to find and befriend people whom we think are interesting enough. It just depends on the person if they'll reciprocate or respond to our friend requests and try to build a connection with us as well. But bear in mind that nothing's safe when doing things online. Never forget to consider some privacy settings in your profile. Well, I didn’t even realize that facebook nowadays is slowly becoming a dating site. :D

But anyway, nothing’s impossible. Since facebook allows us to find people and add friends of friends, we may be able to find and befriend people whom we think are interesting enough.

It just depends on the person if they’ll reciprocate or respond to our friend requests and try to build a connection with us as well.

But bear in mind that nothing’s safe when doing things online. Never forget to consider some privacy settings in your profile.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.lovesites.com/finding-love-on-facebook/comment-page-1#comment-1448 Kevin Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:50:18 +0000 http://www.lovesites.com/?p=652#comment-1448 Interesting..Honestly, personally I have never trolled the lists of friends of friends and just hadn't thought about doing it. But now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense. One thing you didn't mention which does complicate this approach a bit is the addition of gaming applications to Facebook such as Mafia Wars. This gaming application on Facebook requires that a person added to your mafia must first be added as friend in facebook. This is why you see some people with 5,000 plus friends. Most of them are probably gaming friends. The same is true for any other Zynga network game interfacing with Facebook. So from a dating perspective, you cannot trust that your friend knows all their friends in this instance or that they can vouch for them being good people. Another issue with Facebook is the apparent sense of privacy you get and I am using the word apparent deliberately and loosely. If you do not know what you are doing, it is very easy to give away information to applications other friends have installed without knowing you have done so. Also, the latest Facebook privacy updates make indexing of your profile searchable by search engines by default. It also exposes all of your friends and fan pages by default in the basic profile. What does this mean? Well, for example if you had become a fan of an anarchist page purely out of curiosity, then this would be exposed to the world if your profile is indexed and to all Facebook users if your profile is not indexed. And obviously, people make judgments every day based upon small amounts of information like this. It can all be very complicated for users who are not very technical. Keep in mind that social networking applications would not exist if they could not make money and it is in their best interest to be able to sell information about you that allows advertisers to target you with their marketing. Don't misunderstand my point here. I'm not slamming Facebook. My post is purely from the perspective that if you are going to use social networking sites for dating and messaging and all of the other things we used to do in person, be aware of what that entails and be smart in how you use such tools. Lock down your profile by default. Check the privacy settings regularly to insure that nothing has changed and restrict your posts as if you were were writing on a postcard addressed to the world. ...Peace..Kevin Interesting..Honestly, personally I have never trolled the lists of friends of friends and just hadn’t thought about doing it. But now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense. One thing you didn’t mention which does complicate this approach a bit is the addition of gaming applications to Facebook such as Mafia Wars. This gaming application on Facebook requires that a person added to your mafia must first be added as friend in facebook. This is why you see some people with 5,000 plus friends. Most of them are probably gaming friends. The same is true for any other Zynga network game interfacing with Facebook. So from a dating perspective, you cannot trust that your friend knows all their friends in this instance or that they can vouch for them being good people.

Another issue with Facebook is the apparent sense of privacy you get and I am using the word apparent deliberately and loosely. If you do not know what you are doing, it is very easy to give away information to applications other friends have installed without knowing you have done so. Also, the latest Facebook privacy updates make indexing of your profile searchable by search engines by default. It also exposes all of your friends and fan pages by default in the basic profile. What does this mean? Well, for example if you had become a fan of an anarchist page purely out of curiosity, then this would be exposed to the world if your profile is indexed and to all Facebook users if your profile is not indexed. And obviously, people make judgments every day based upon small amounts of information like this. It can all be very complicated for users who are not very technical.

Keep in mind that social networking applications would not exist if they could not make money and it is in their best interest to be able to sell information about you that allows advertisers to target you with their marketing. Don’t misunderstand my point here. I’m not slamming Facebook. My post is purely from the perspective that if you are going to use social networking sites for dating and messaging and all of the other things we used to do in person, be aware of what that entails and be smart in how you use such tools. Lock down your profile by default. Check the privacy settings regularly to insure that nothing has changed and restrict your posts as if you were were writing on a postcard addressed to the world. …Peace..Kevin

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