Libcom on facebook!

Isn't this a bit of a bad idea, security wise?

Security services are well into facebook. If you put your details down on there, they never get erased. Muppets!

It's not security services I'd be worried about, if they wanna get you they'll get you ;)

Possibly some low-level wankers might sign up as a friend and get a few names and whatnot. But I'm not too bothered about that.

You have 5 new friend requests:

The Government would like to be your friend. Accept Reject Ignore
The Man would like to be your friend. Accept Reject Ignore
Tom O'Carroll would like to be your friend. Accept Reject Ignore
The Police would like to be your friend. Accept Reject Ignore
Tony BLIAR would like to be your friend. Accept Reject Ignore

i have added yous

the guvmint certainly can't get much off of facebook that they couldn't already get off of cell phones records.

However it is becoming more common for employers to look you up on social networking sites, something to keep in mind.

Very true, our head of dept is now my facebook friend, oh noes!

weeler

the time they raided my house?

mexico

weeler

Tell me this; what can the police get from my facebook that they couldn't already get from their files, special branch archive of pics/videos or from the time they raided my house?

not all of us are famous

However it is becoming more common for employers to look you up on social networking sites, something to keep in mind.

It helps combat that danger if you use a pseudonym, so that only people with your personal email or who know what ur likely to use as ur pseudonym can look you up. It doesn't even matter if its an obviously fake name (like mine...Ive got my middle & surnames as "Kaze no Kae" <_<), they still need to know what to look for.

You don't need to do that - you can control your privacy settings completely and just set yourself as private so no one can search for you on there.

Isn't there some kind of vunrability regarding the applications or whatever it is that thay are called, i remember reading an artical about it?

Candor ends paranoia.

OliverTwister

However it is becoming more common for employers to look you up on social networking sites, something to keep in mind.

I've actually seen a couple of job ads that mention "show us your amazing facebook profile" now - admittedly they were for internet marketing or some such crap.

Candor ends paranoia.

I agree with the sentiment, but in practice its sometimes wise to limit candour - for example, not showing your employers the perfect excuse to discipline you, or not encouraging them to get the fuzz down to your next direct action by advertising it where they can easily snoop on you.

Kaze no Kae

not encouraging them to get the fuzz down to your next direct action by advertising it where they can easily snoop on you.

surely advertising will always do this?

Unfortunately, the dynamic at a lot of workplaces is that it would be unpolitic to deny a friend request from an immediate supervisor. I've at least had that dilemma at one workplace, where all of my co-workers were "friends" with the management.

Hence why its smart to use a pseudonym. They can't add you if they can't find you.

Bump because we now have a fan page, we might drop the other two and just keep fan page in future because that seems like the best way of keeping in touch with people:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/libcomorg/126727186022

I reckon this should be libcom's official facebook presence: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LibCom/97747443299

Steven.

Bump because we now have a fan page, we might drop the other two and just keep fan page in future because that seems like the best way of keeping in touch with people:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/libcomorg/126727186022

Any update on this? Seems a bit odd having 3 separate f/b presences

the libcom group on fb is amazing; like a time machine to the FEBRUARY REVOLUTION

http://www.facebook.com/pages/libcomorg/126727186022#!/group.php?gid=2211824041&ref=ts

We are going to be deleting our Facebook group, and also our Facebook profile page, and from now on only using our Facebook page, so if you haven't yet, please Like us now!
http://www.facebook.com/libcom.org

We have now deleted the group and our profile so if you haven't liked our page yet please do so - we are close to the 2000 mark!

We now have more likes than CrimethInc. FACE!

Steven.

We now have more likes than CrimethInc. FACE!

looking at the CrimethInc. Facebook page, it's embarrassing, it's got links to Ron Paul fan sites on it with comments like:

i'm an anarchist against presidents but really, he would do some good, and look at the mess of other people that would take his place. until we change the system, there will be presidents; what kind of president do you want?