Facebook Friends

[Tom Kunich]

I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?

Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
probably run away in horror and never bother you again.

--
Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

[Mark Cleary]

Well I am not sure how you do that but in my case I am embrace celibacy so that probably scares this from happening. I am guess it is so foreign to most.
Deacon Mark

[John B.]

You must be a Democrat :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

[Tom Kunich]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 9:13:06 AM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?
> Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
> predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
> financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
> probably run away in horror and never bother you again.

I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.

[Tom Kunich]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 2:20:28 PM UTC-8, deaco...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 11:13:06 AM UTC-6, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
> > <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?
> > Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
> > predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
> > financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
> > probably run away in horror and never bother you again.

> Well I am not sure how you do that but in my case I am embrace celibacy so that probably scares this from happening. I am guess it is so foreign to most.
> Deacon Mark

Believe me, at 76 it is to me as well no matter how unwelcome.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:30:13 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich

<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 9:13:06 AM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
>> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?
>> Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
>> predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
>> financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
>> probably run away in horror and never bother you again.

>I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.

Assumption, the mother of all screwups. Instead of assuming, perhaps
it might be more useful to check? Looks like I have 56 friends on
Facebook:
<https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/>

[News 2021]

On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:20:26 -0800, Mark Cleary scribed:

Err no. It has been on the ether, that 'jobs' can range from just someone
to talk to and 'upwards.

[Lou Holtman]

Op donderdag 7 januari 2021 om 00:30:16 UTC+1 schreef cycl...@gmail.com:

Do you consider 'Facebook friends' as real friends? I don't. For your problem:
- get your privacy settings right,
- ignore 'friend' requests,
- leave Facebook; the best option.

Lou

[Sir Ridesalot]

ASSUME makes an ASS of U and ME. LOL VBEG

Cheers

[Sir Ridesalot]

The very BEST option is to never join Facebook in the first place.

Cheers

[Lou Holtman]

Op donderdag 7 januari 2021 om 10:40:54 UTC+1 schreef Sir Ridesalot:

That is what I did as with twitter, instagram, whatsapp or whatever. Saves a lot of time.


Lou

[AMuzi]

+1
works for me.

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

[Tom Kunich]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:30:13 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 9:13:06 AM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
> >> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?
> >> Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
> >> predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
> >> financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
> >> probably run away in horror and never bother you again.
>
> >I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.
> Assumption, the mother of all screwups. Instead of assuming, perhaps
> it might be more useful to check? Looks like I have 56 friends on
> Facebook:
> <https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/>

Well that looks to be mainly people you know that are real people. I made the mistake of accepting a lot of people that requested to be my friend whom I don't know until I suddenly start getting messages like "would you like for me to console you?" I had hardly expected that on Facebook. I also noted a group of foreigners that apparently are looking for a sponsor to immigrate to the US. Now I'm trying to get rid of these and their messages. Didn't they used to have a button to "unfriend" someone?

[Tom Kunich]

I'm sure that was the best option but I think that I joined all of these for normal discussions when I was still under the effects of my concussion. Twitter canceled my account permanently which is fine with me. Seems hat they didn't like anyone with a conservative opinion.

[Frank Krygowski]

On 1/7/2021 11:14 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:30:13 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
>> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.
>> Assumption, the mother of all screwups. Instead of assuming, perhaps
>> it might be more useful to check? Looks like I have 56 friends on
>> Facebook:
>> <https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/>
>

> Well that looks to be mainly people you know that are real people. I made the mistake of accepting a lot of people that requested to be my friend whom I don't know ...

Good grief. Why in HELL would you do that??

You must be terribly starved for real friends!


--
- Frank Krygowski

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:14:08 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich

<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:30:13 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
>> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 9:13:06 AM UTC-8, jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:57:14 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
>> >> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >I have recently had a crush of people wanting to "be my friend" on Facebook. Turns out that a large percentage of them appear to be prostitutes attempting to ply their wares on Facebook. And I cannot find any method of "unfriending" them. How the hell do you do this?
>> >> Send them your political manifesto including all your views, opinions,
>> >> predictions, projections, statistics, and "facts". Also, include a
>> >> financial statement and resume. After reading those, they will
>> >> probably run away in horror and never bother you again.

>> >I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter.

>> Assumption, the mother of all screwups. Instead of assuming, perhaps
>> it might be more useful to check? Looks like I have 56 friends on
>> Facebook:
>> <https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/>

>Well that looks to be mainly people you know that are real people.

They're all people who I know personally. Two are deceased, but were
left in place because I help manage their accounts should there be any
residual comments. 8-10 years later, I'm still reading messages from
acquaintances who didn't know that they were dead. Of my 56 Facebook
friends, I don't know how many I maintain regular phone or email
contact. Probably about half.

Some of the names (nyms) look rather odd, but makes sense to those who
know the individuals. This seems like a good time to do some
housekeeping. If you're keeping score, I added 3 friend requests for
a total of 59.
<https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/friends>
There are a few that I could probably safely "unfriend" or "block" so
that I don't see everything they do and every place they go. Maybe
later.

I tried to find my "timeline" to check when I last logged into
Facebook, but couldn't find it among the clutter. Help wasn't much
help.

Interestingly, most of the ads that appeared were for bicycles or
bicycle related items. I guess Facebook is following me around the
internet.

> I made the mistake of accepting a lot of people that requested to
> be my friend whom I don't know until I suddenly start getting
> messages like "would you like for me to console you?" I had hardly
> expected that on Facebook. I also noted a group of foreigners that
> apparently are looking for a sponsor to immigrate to the US.

Possibly because you chronically present yourself as a victim but more
likely because those people are trying to get you send them money.

> Now
> I'm trying to get rid of these and their messages. Didn't they
> used to have a button to "unfriend" someone?

You could also Google for some hints:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+I+unfriend+on+facebook>
Yech... the first hit from the Facebook help page seems like the most
tedious and user hostile method they could contrive.
<https://www.facebook.com/help/172936839431357>

"Unfriend" still works but is a little difficult to find:
<https://www.facebook.com/thomas.kunich.14/friends>
Looks like you have 157 friends I can't see the list but you should
be able to see everyone when you're logged into Facebook. There
should be a gray button to the right of each photo labeled "Friends"
or the name of a group. Left click. The last choice is "unfriend".

As for my friends elsewhere, you'll find some of my business contacts
on LinkedIn and some junk (mostly testing) on Twitter, Instagram, and
probably some others which are mostly learning exercises so I can
answer my customers questions.

[AMuzi]

Tom has you ♥

[Frank Krygowski]

He has us, not that I'd characterize the relationship as "friends." I
suspect this is as close as he gets to friendship.


--
- Frank Krygowski

[AMuzi]

On 1/7/2021 5:47 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 1/7/2021 2:30 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 1/7/2021 12:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 1/7/2021 11:14 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 4:19:59 PM UTC-8,
>>>> jeff.li...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 15:30:13 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
>>>>> <cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I can only assume that you have no friends on Facebook
>>>>>> or anywhere else for that matter.
>>>>> Assumption, the mother of all screwups. Instead of
>>>>> assuming, perhaps
>>>>> it might be more useful to check? Looks like I have 56
>>>>> friends on
>>>>> Facebook:
>>>>> <https://www.facebook.com/jeff.liebermann/>
>>>>
>>>> Well that looks to be mainly people you know that are real
>>>> people. I made the mistake of accepting a lot of people
>>>> that requested to be my friend whom I don't know ...
>>>
>>> Good grief. Why in HELL would you do that??
>>>
>>> You must be terribly starved for real friends!
>>>
>>>
>>

>> Tom has you ♥

>
> He has us, not that I'd characterize the relationship as
> "friends." I suspect this is as close as he gets to friendship.
>
>

My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.

[Tom Kunich]

Facebook was pulling this crap on me where "public" posting were only going to my friends. So I simply increases my circle of friends who would forward my comments to their friends who would ask to be friended so that they could get my postings. That worked until recently. Suddenly Facebook started allowing accounts like I described.

[Tom Kunich]

Thanks. Some of those "friends are large groups such as the companies I used to work for. After awhile you keep running into and working for the same people over and over. At the moment I can't remember his last name but Jaime was VP of Berkeley Computer company and he kept turning up as VP of a lot of companies over the years because he knew how to run a company and usually President is more political or sales oriented.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.

On a Mac or PC, the ALT key codes only go up to alt-255.
<https://www.alt-codes.net>
However, if you're using Unicode, it will display all kinds of weird
characters:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>

[AMuzi]

On 1/7/2021 9:05 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>
>> My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.
>
> On a Mac or PC, the ALT key codes only go up to alt-255.
> <https://www.alt-codes.net>
> However, if you're using Unicode, it will display all kinds of weird
> characters:
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>
>

It usually displays as a heart. I use it a lot in personal
correspondence.

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:12:33 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 1/7/2021 9:05 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>
>>> My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.
>>
>> On a Mac or PC, the ALT key codes only go up to alt-255.
>> <https://www.alt-codes.net>
>> However, if you're using Unicode, it will display all kinds of weird
>> characters:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>

>It usually displays as a heart. I use it a lot in personal
>correspondence.

Are you sure you're not using emoji symbols?

Alt Code Keyboard Shortcuts for Heart Emoji
<https://www.webnots.com/alt-code-shortcuts-for-hearts-symbols/>

Or, you might have my problem. Since I had a heart bypass in 2001, my
standard comment has been "I have no heart. It's been bypassed".

[AMuzi]

On 1/7/2021 11:52 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:12:33 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>
>> On 1/7/2021 9:05 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.
>>>
>>> On a Mac or PC, the ALT key codes only go up to alt-255.
>>> <https://www.alt-codes.net>
>>> However, if you're using Unicode, it will display all kinds of weird
>>> characters:
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>
>
>> It usually displays as a heart. I use it a lot in personal
>> correspondence.
>
> Are you sure you're not using emoji symbols?
>
> Alt Code Keyboard Shortcuts for Heart Emoji
> <https://www.webnots.com/alt-code-shortcuts-for-hearts-symbols/>
>
> Or, you might have my problem. Since I had a heart bypass in 2001, my
> standard comment has been "I have no heart. It's been bypassed".
>

None of my systems can write or display those. They show as
random goop in my daughter's emails.

A friend showed me alt-259 (& a few others) many years ago:

https://www.quotev.com/story/8255668/Helpful-Alt-codes-part-1/4

[Jeff Liebermann]

On my Windoze 10 machine, I did a quick check what various programs
show in their editor windows. I haven't checked to see what they'll
display for a document with alt-259 characters. It probably follows
the editor display, but it might be useful to check.

It works:
CMD prompt - Shows heart
Notepad++ 7.9.2 64bit - Shows heart
MS Notepad - Shows heart
Mozilla Thunderbird email - Shows heart

It doesn't work:
MS Office 10 Word and Excel - Duz Nothing
Forte Agent 8.0 - Shows a question mark

Looks like it's supported in some programs, but not others. I should
have some more editors that I can try tomorrow. Weather is good, so
I'm gone for the day hiking in the hills, followed by some repair
work.

[Frank Krygowski]

It displayed in Eternal September via Thunderbird.


--
- Frank Krygowski

[Joy Beeson]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:02:16 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

> > The very BEST option is to never join Facebook in the first place.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> +1
> works for me.

I had to join Facebook because my nieces and nephews forgot how e-mail
works. But Facebook strenuously opposes anything remotely resembling
conversation; I miss the bouncing robins that used to emerge when we
e-mailed each other.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

[Lou Holtman]

Op zaterdag 9 januari 2021 om 06:19:04 UTC+1 schreef Joy Beeson:

Nobody HAS to join FB. People think they can't do without and that is the problem. Same goes for instagram and twitter. Nothing comes for free with those guys, so please don't complain; just leave.

Lou

[Tom Kunich]

Now I find that a lot of these women I made the mistake of "friending" are looking for someone to marry to sponsor them into the USA. I am going to simply leave facebook.

[Eric Pozharski]

with <rt8m3q$gu$2...@dont-email.me> AMuzi wrote:
> On 1/7/2021 9:05 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600, AMuzi <a...@yellowjersey.org>
>> wrote:

>>> My light ALT-259 doesn't display in text.
>> On a Mac or PC, the ALT key codes only go up to alt-255.
>> <https://www.alt-codes.net> However, if you're using Unicode, it will
>> display all kinds of weird characters:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>
> It usually displays as a heart. I use it a lot in personal
> correspondence.

Here's timeline: with <rt7ngu$3o4$3...@dont-email.me> at 07 Jan 2021
13:30:29 -0600 your charset is UTF-8. So is Frank's charset with
<rt86ij$d1f$1...@dont-email.me>. Then at 07 Jan 2021 17:55:24 -0600 with
<rt871m$fv3$1...@dont-email.me> your charset changes to 'windows-1252' --
and that breaks your hart. Now it's 'ISO-8859-1'.

I don't know much about TB, except that it's GUI -- showstopper for me.
I speculate that your TB got serious gremlin infestation problem. But I
don't do TB and may be wrong (probably, I'm wrong).

--
Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

[Joy Beeson]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 00:42:37 -0800 (PST), Lou Holtman
<lou.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> so please don't complain; just leave.

My family.

[Lou Holtman]

Op zondag 10 januari 2021 om 04:20:46 UTC+1 schreef Joy Beeson:

Are you saying that leaving FB means leaving your family? That is sad.

Lou

[Tom Kunich]

The competition started to allow people to speak without censorship (Pole-something or another) has had their server removed by Google. So you can see that no one of the tech giants intends to allow any real competition to Facebook.

[News 2021]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 09:04:46 -0800, Tom Kunich scribed:

Oh FFS, you can set up competition to facesbook, the twat sphere or any
other of THEIR PRODUCTS. They exists as do a number of FOSS(free and open
source) alternatives. Being a competitor is another matter.

The only thing stopping people is laziness. Many people are happy to
become a 'product for sale' in return for the convenience.

As to censor ship, the bottom line is that if you do not pay for it, then
you have no reason to complain when Big Tech decides to excise a portion
of the 'customers/product' to retain another portion.

Any special interest group is free to set up their own services.

[AMuzi]

Yesterday I could have written exactly that. Then today:

https://nypost.com/2021/01/10/big-techs-assault-on-parler-proves-its-gone-full-cartel/

I'm rethinking the subject. No conclusions yet.

[Tom Kunich]

I was invited to join MeWe by one of my old Human Resources heads from before that industry was taken over by mostly illegal Indians here on expired educational visas and working for half the price of an American. So, I have joined and urged my followers to switch over there as well. After a reasonable period I will drop my Facebook account completely. I had assumed that because of my concussion which caused the loss of self control that that was the reason I had been banned by Twitter. But I recently discovered that I had been banned long before that and when I was working full time as a project manager and hence having little to no political ideology other than being conservative. It is likely that Trump is either going to sponsor Parler buying their own servers or founding his own Twitter competition which would immediately be a major competitor to Twitter.

We are getting close to the citizens of states approving a Constitutional Convention and we will pass rather strict term limits and a Constitutional Amendment to any social media being safe from lawsuits for their malpractices.