Ah yes Miriam, like lambs to the slaughter...
And I should talk? I still can't get rid of that Linked In thing.
About once or twice a week I get a note telling me that so and so
wants to link with me. I figure it's best if I just delete them,
rather than risk what might happen if I go in and try getting rid of
it.
But remember, this is what happens to Good Citizens when they become
potential Consumers.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/27/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, I want to tell you how eerie Facebook is. Actually, I guess that even
though I love that all these books are now available to me, in other ways,
technology as made the world a terrifying place.
I was trying to sign a petition the other day and was taken to a Facebook
page rather than a "sign here" button. So I looked at the page and it said
something about creating an account. So because I was there, I thought I'd
see if I could do it, but I couldn't because there was a visual captcha. I
should have just dropped the whole thing at that point because I really
don't want to be on Facebook. But I was curious about how all these other
blind people were getting on Facebook so I asked on the Jaws list, and
someone told me to use the Facebook mobile site. So I tried, just to see if
I could. I did most of it, but then it asked me to verify my email address
with my Optimum email address and password. I did that and it didn't accept
the password. So I was done. But no, I wasn't done because then I got an
email asking me to confirm my account. I followed the link but didn't see
anywhere to confirm my account. But what I did see was a huge number of
names of people whom I might know. And here is the scarey part. I did know
some of those names. One or two were people I actually know. One was an NLS
narrator. Some were old adoption clients. Some were members of email lists
I'm on. Some I didn't recognize. Scarey! I left the website and went back
to
the email and went to the unsubscribe link. And thought I unsubscribed from
further email notifications and I'd never filled in the confirmation code
because I'd not found a place to do that. But a few seconds later, I
received an email telling me that I now have a Facebook account. I have an
account I'll never use.
One other scarey thing. It is really true that when I ordered something
from
Amazon after several years of not ordering anything, and my Visa card
number
had been changed this past year so that Amazon should not have had it
because I never ordered anything from Amazon with this card number, Amazon
did have it without my ever giving it to them.
And when I checked today to be sure that I had the correct phone number for
Drugstore.com, before the correct result, Google inserted an Amazon add for
"Drugs from Amazon" because I ordered a little speaker from Amazon the
other
day.
Horrible!
Miriam
