I am beginning to hate the idea of social sites and networking.

There is a danger to social networking sites. Our number one concern is privacy. Whenever we publish something in social networking sites, let it be known that it's a public domain. Anybody can see it, read it, and use it for any purpose they might have in mind. Some unscrupulous people might be following your every move and use any information you made public to do what is not good. The worst is identity theft or crimes. Spamming, harassment, bullying are some of the things that may happen. Someone wanted me to give all the full details of myself in facebook but I refused. Recognizing the dangers of social networking sites will help us keep ourselves from outside disturbances.

The only problem I have are occasional chat requests on yahoo and I report it right away when this happens. I signed up for Linkin right before school started, so you know I haven't been there in a while. That leaves mylot and FB, both which I have had no problems..I am sorry you are having so many problems, I hope you can get free from it soon..

All these social sites can be good and a lot of fun but they can be destroying as well, probably in real relationships I think these social site cause more trouble that we all know about and it is a shame because if used in the way it is supposed to be used it is good,.

I got one think about last year telling me stop hitting on a small kid I would never do that cant remeber if I answered or not but I did block them never heard any more!

I did get a couple of messages from friends I know and the style of writing made me suspicious. I sent emails to these friends and they confirmed my fears. They had not sent those messages. Both these friends had their emails hacked and they had to work on it. I never open mail received from strangers which is an on going thing that happens every single day. I just delete them.

What you said has never happened to me.It is not because I am fortunate but I have neither Facebook nor Twitter account ,except mylot and Yahoo mailbox.I also feel puzzled by what those hackers have done .Even though I am not clear what benefit they will get by doing those, but I can bet they aren't doing those for their health.

I haven't been a big fan of social sites or networking. Unfortunately I have an upcoming class that uses these sites for promoting a person's business. I guess that it's okay if you are big on tuning into something like that on a regular basis. I just don't have the time or desire to keep up with places like that. Plus, it seems like it invites spam and unwanted emails. I prefer to stick to myLot and emails. Also, social sites are great places for gossip about others. And, it seems that the gossip is the kind that is hurtful to someone. I do belong to a couple of sites but don't frequent them, and will be using them again on March 19th for the class I'm taking. I'd rather be on the lot making money! I just got a payout in time to pay for an item I bought on Ebay. It's a new teddy bear pattern. It's item #320859057919, Hattie. It's a small teddy bear pattern that is coming to me from England. I liked her because she is so small and ratty looking. Of course changes are going to be made on her pattern, which is pretty standard. After all a teddy bear is two arms, two legs, a head, two ears and then the facial features. It's how you do the work on the item that makes the difference. I have gotten to the point that if I receive a notification from Facebook or such that is from someone I don't know or wish to know I delete it before I even open it. Very often those kinds of emails come with a virus attached...so I don't want to take any chances. I have been lucky in that way, I haven't gotten a virus yet...knock on wood.

They probably have a virus waiting for you at the end of that link! I have a Facebook account but it's in my dog's name--there is no picture of me and the only friends I have are family. I don't share my info with anyone but them and I haven't had any trouble so far except a couple of them wanting me to participate in the family tree. Which they have for all the freakin' world to see!! I have a Twitter but I never saw much use in it. The first time I received a notify that someone was following me I wondered why the heck anyone would want to! I have a few followers but I haven't written anything in months--what's there to write?! So I don't have much trouble with that type of site. I think you were just the unfortunate victim of someone looking to find a gullible mark, some sicko looking to spread their latest virus. I guess you could create a new account under your dog's name, it seems to work well for me!

Years ago when I first started going online at home I had AOL. On several of my seven different email addresses I got several notifications from AOL that I would have my account deleted if I continued to send out so many commercial emails. I wrote them right away and explained that I had not done this. Hadn't even been online when they said this happened. This happened two or three times. Finally I quit using aOL and came to Yahoo and have been here every since. With out any problems. Only problem I had was that once they closed down and were having some kind of problems. Never did figure it out and never had the problem again. I do have an occasional problem when they upgrade their mail. How they hacked in on my AOL accounts and used them for this i don't know.

maybe i havent been that long at FB, so not there but i dont do twitter either. i used to spend hours on myspace before i got here in mylot and i had quite a few people do such things. i just ignored them and delete it and go on. you are wise to ignore them

Oh well..so far didn't have any problem on social networking sites..but i only have FB as i had twitter but i find it useless lol no one would follow me! I am on FB but i didn't receive any mysterious messages though...i only have to what out what i post on my status as other people find gossips on that.

Obviously spam - nobody would EVER say anything bad about you! The ones I get are rather more "adult" in nature, shall we say. I always just block them and report them as spam. If they want to waste their time and energy spamming me, that's their problem. I have no time for idiots. I've seen some worse things when real people I follow suddenly start spamming because their accounts are hacked. That's bad because they lose their following, so I always find another contact method to warn them they've been hacked (so they can sort it out and save their reputation). That's happened to a couple of people on my list... very nasty.

If you get trouble from social site, I got it from e-mail. There is so many e-mail that come from unknown person. Sometime include a link that I believe is a virus. For social site, I do not get so much problem since I do not use it very often. But what is troubled me now is Linked In because several head hunter often approach us without clear information, but just request our CV, for unclear vacancy. May be we need to be more careful using our social site account.

well, only today it happened , though i did not send any friend request to one particular person, the FB notification told me that that particular person ahs accepted my friend request. I m prety sure i did not send it...so i deleted the name from my friend list. but i kept wondering how did this happen. few of my friends had the same experience. i did not like it at all

I am sceptical of the social networking sites. I think they keep too much of our personal information. I think their assets is the information they have of the users on their platform. Makes me wonder how facebook got to be worth billions of dollars. It is not like they manufacture anything.

I don't hate social sites. I just think people need to restrain themselves as to what they post. It's sad that spammers and hackers as well as other cyber criminals are finding more and more ways to bother people and do things they should not. I know I hate the thing on FB where you put where you are at, that just tells someone you are not home.

Mylot is as close to a social site as I ever get. My main thing is time and I just don't need the grief of any more spam.

Hi Gerty, Wow, I can so relate to what you are going through. I have had issues myself with certain social sites. My problems actually happened with MySpace. I eventually just deleted the account completely. I do however, still use facebook. But, it took me a long time to start back into using it. I only recently started chatting a bit with a few friends.

This has never happened to me on social websites but it has on fanfiction. I used to post a fanfiction and panicked at people's reviews and expectations to keep publishing at a certain time when I was out of ideas. The pressure was so much I cried and quit so in a way I can relate with the paranoia that involves social websites. My advice is to delete all of your social networking accounts and start anew. Open a new facebook or twitter and start by only adding your close REAL friends. I did this and have slowly been opening up. If there's somebody bothering you delete them or simply ignore them. Remember you are you and no comment can change that. They are just bored people with no life but to cyber bully others online. :) You are worth more than that. Life is too short to be sad. Smile. :D

I would disregard it. I'm not very up-to-date on Twitter, but they could be giving you a link to phish your account. I try to limit the people I connect with on social networking sites, and I have made my profile as private and unfindable as possible! I wouldn't worry about what these "people" are saying about you because it's probably just an attempt to phish for your password. Especially when you seem to keep from getting too involved in social networking sites!