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christoph benells
Trad climber
Tahoma, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 18, 2016 - 03:28pm PT
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I keep getting fake profiles on facebook trying to friend request me.
All the profiles are set up to look like these people are climbers,
I've noticed that friends have fallen for it and accepted the requests.
Third world FB problems.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Apr 18, 2016 - 03:29pm PT
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Fake Facebook? isnt that redundant
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Apr 18, 2016 - 03:34pm PT
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Pretty elaborate invites and pages too. Some even go so far as to do big walls in Yosemite and free climb runout pitches, just so they can make a better fake bookface!
Madness
j/k
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Apr 18, 2016 - 03:38pm PT
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Yup.
Susan
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Apr 18, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
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Suggestion: quit Facebook.
I did several years ago and have never regretted it.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Apr 19, 2016 - 06:49am PT
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Received an invite last night from someone who was already a "friend". Sigh...
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 19, 2016 - 07:17am PT
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RIP and BITD central
pretty good one
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Apr 19, 2016 - 07:26am PT
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What's Facebook?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 19, 2016 - 07:43am PT
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I heard the other day that only 15% of teens use it so it must be toast. If that is so then it is
pretty funny that The Economist put Zuckerberg on the cover recently dressed as a Roman
emperor.
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Barbarian
climber
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Apr 19, 2016 - 08:18am PT
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Received an invite last night from someone who was already a "friend". Sigh...
I got a request from the same friend, as did many others. I declined...some friends you can only take so much of (I know you're reading this and you know I say this in jest>)>
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Barbarian
climber
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Apr 19, 2016 - 08:19am PT
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I keep getting requiests from young hot women. Dead giveaway....what young hot woman would want to be my friend?
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Apr 19, 2016 - 08:21am PT
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I get the same thing ski related.
And Reilly, Facebook isn't his only game.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Apr 19, 2016 - 09:25am PT
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FakeBook.
When Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard, he conned fellow students into sending him their personal information to him. There is a notorious email message he sent to a friend, wherein he bragged about being astounded that that other students would trust him and send their personal information.
FaceBook is an absurd and sordid ploy to gain access to personal information for nefarious purposes. The hazard is there, whether it is FaceBook, or someone pretending to be FaceBook.
I can't understand why anybody would willingly upload personal information to a website that has repeatedly violated the privacy of its users.
Facebook appeals to a generation of zombies.
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jstan
climber
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Apr 19, 2016 - 11:40am PT
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Because of privacy concerns I never used FB and refused all potential friends. It is still an utter pain.
When I search on anything FB has priority and I have to click on refusing permission for access to my
computer before I can continue. Why did these sites get first priority? Just make refusing permission
the default. To fix this I will have to upgrade my browser.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Apr 19, 2016 - 12:27pm PT
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47% are 35% or older
35% of what?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Apr 19, 2016 - 12:38pm PT
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87.35843% of all statistics are utter bullsh1t
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 19, 2016 - 12:50pm PT
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Agree with Jebus
My FB life is just swimmin'
And I enjoy following it there.
Facebook, like every other internet amusement, seems largely what you make of it.
John
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Apr 19, 2016 - 01:46pm PT
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When you get one of those FB friend requests that seem fishy, click on the About tab on their FB site. If there is totally no information about who there are or what they do (and if there are only 2 pics), you can be pretty certain the FB friend request is phony. Click delete and save yourself trouble later on.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Apr 21, 2016 - 11:17am PT
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Maybe they're getting better at detecting it. I just got a friend notification which was obviously going to be another one. This was from Koppmeier Lars (they're always weird foreign names) with a mt. biking photo as profile pic. By the time I clicked on it, which was right away cause I was already on FB, the profile had been deleted.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Apr 21, 2016 - 11:25am PT
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What do you do if you get Spam? Make Spam musubi! Only 5 ingredients (IF you consider Spam only one ingredient); 1 can Spam, 3 cups uncooked sushi rice, rice wine viniger, Soy sauce, Sugar, and Nori sheets.
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Apr 21, 2016 - 01:08pm PT
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47% are 35% or older
35% of what?
Why, 35% of 100 years (or older), of course!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Apr 28, 2016 - 08:47am PT
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I dropped in just to see if there was a thread like this that explained WTF!
Yeah, somebody I've never met (like a robot) who has 10-100 friends and wants me to be one of them.
I knew the hot women were fake but who ever thought to impersonate climbers? HOw do they monetize having fake friends?
Peace
Karl
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 28, 2016 - 08:51am PT
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Sometimes the RIP stuff brings out some cool anecdotes from people on here that know or have interacted with the subject of the thread. Rather read that than the endless Polidrone. As far as LipServiceSpyBook goes what do you expect?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Apr 28, 2016 - 09:14am PT
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Yup. Pretty funny.
Are these robots sending the requests? Usually it is a hot girl, but lately it has been some dude standing in front of a mountain or whatever.
You know they're fake when there are only two photos, and the person just became friends with 130 people!
Incidentally, the dumbasses around here who fall for it most often and repeatedly, because I see their names on each one of these fake users' friends lists are:
Tom Evans
Ran Wenzel
Riley I think
Lots of you other guys who I can't remember!
Mike Stonewalker Davis who is a FB Friends Whore cuz he has 5000 friends and he must accept everyone without checking!
etc etc etc
So wake up and quit accepting these requests. It is probably through you that the 'bots are bugging me!
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Apr 28, 2016 - 12:50pm PT
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Seems I've been getting one or two a day. Yesterday I got one from a guy I'm already friends with, and it said something like, "see what SHE has to say." I've gotten that a couple times, also. Basically if there is nothing under their pictures (no info or old posts), it's a scam. No idea what they do once they are in!!! Someone or someones are obviously going to a lot of effort, as many of the pictures are pretty good!
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christoph benells
Trad climber
Tahoma, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2016 - 04:16pm PT
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^^^^ mark westman?
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MarkWestman
Trad climber
Talkeetna, Alaska
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Apr 28, 2016 - 05:00pm PT
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^^^^ mark westman?
Haha, here I am.
Yeah somebody made a new account in my name and then sent friend requests to every one on my friends list. Presumably the next step is spamming them with ads for sunglasses and other crap that has been going around for awhile.
I reported the account and Facebook already shut it down.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jun 27, 2016 - 07:51am PT
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Tom Evans needs to read this post!!
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