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Glad,

What notifications? I never know if I have a private message until I go to the profile page.

Then again, I opted out of email messages or marketing. I don’t wish to receive any emails.

Stacy,

Why was this sent to you? That’s weird.

Nothing is absolutely safe online. We all know that.

AC is not at fault when we share our private email with others. We have to take the responsibility for that ourselves.

If things are stored in Google Cloud there are settings for that, and if stored in microsoft one drive's cloud I would imagine there are settings for that as well.

In our current world there is so very little that is truly private and a secret from others. A P.I. I know says that 99% of his work can now be done online. Fun fact.

I've opted out of all the email cr@p too but don't the messages show up in your news feed?

NHWM, you might have that notification turned off in your profile. I do receive notifications when I have received a message.

From the reports it's pretty obvious the site was hacked, there's no telling how much personal info like member's email addresses was compromised. People I know think I'm paranoid or just old fashioned to not fully trust new tech but my motto is to give as little information as possible to any person or business I deal with.

cw,

They claim that they question us for marketing purposes.

I was in line behind a guy at the store and the cashier asked for his phone number.

He was paying in cash and he refused to give his phone number. Then he asked, “Why do you need my phone number when I am paying with cash?”

She said it was marketing and they were instructed to ask everyone for their phone numbers.

At our gas stations we have to enter our zip code along with our credit card when paying at the pump. I entered the wrong zip code once and it wouldn’t allow me to proceed.

Everyone is collecting our data.

Stacy,

I believe you because I had something bizarre happen with my email account once. This was many years ago.

I opened my email with my password and my daughter’s email popped up.

I was floored. Of course, I can’t prove anything either but I had a feeling that somehow it was her ex boyfriend that hacked both of our accounts.

I immediately told my daughter and we both changed our email addresses and passwords.

Something else I don't trust is the integration across multiple platforms that is supposed to make our lives easier - when I'm logged into my windows PC I'm also logged in to MS email and MS browser and when I log into YouTube I'm also logged in to Gmail and Google services, my debit or credit card is linked to every account held with that bank... we must constantly be readjusting the need to protect our privacy and the ability to use the available tech - IMO it makes us vulnerable AF.

cw,

I don’t log into everything all the time. I hardly ever log into google.

Are you saying it logs you in automatically?

The bank logs us out automatically if you forget to log out.

I don’t do the face recognition on my iPhone. I have heard funny stories about people who have issues with facial recognition at their jobs.

One woman couldn’t get into her office on the weekend because she wasn’t fixed up like she was during the week!

Another guy said he and his twin were always being confused as the same person.

I have heard other people say that if they changed their appearance in some way the facial recognition at their workplace would screw up.

Technology is fascinating but certainly isn’t perfect. I hear tech conversations all day long because my husband is an engineer and works from home four days a week. He goes into the office one day a week.

My husband and daughters do Apple Pay. I never use that either.

NHWM - after whining over on the exercise thread about my difficulty finding good workout music I was finally convinced to log into YouTube and create my own playlist. That's been wonderfully successful and fun BUT logging into one logs you into all so maintaining anonymity is like a never ending game of whack a mole.

cw,

Oh, okay.

Creating your own playlist is good for exercising though. I do YouTube music when I cycle on my stationary bike. I’m not one to read or watch tv to exercise. I prefer music.

Yes, Stacy got an email I did not send her. I sent that picture to my SIL via text on my phone. Stacy and I both use gmail. If the people effected are gmail this could be your problem. I clicked on my google photos app and found a folder named "Share". Seems you can set up with someone on your email contacts to share photos with. It does show I shared a picture with Stacy. I went to my settings and clicked on apps then clicked on photos. I found that photos was able to get into my contacts so I turned it off. I also turned off the ability to change my settings. I had to this on both my tablet and my phone. IMO its a Google thing if those effected use gmail. Maybe a feature that was just up-dated. Have no idea how this happened because Stacy is not in my contacts on either my tablet or phone. Just email contact.

I hope this solves the problem I had.

JoAnn,
Good point about doing regular updates. Some people don’t bother or forget to do these.

cwillie is correct about linking multiple platforms. We apparently all (save me) have phones, computers, tablets, and they are all connected. I won't even do any online banking or sites due to information sharing platforms, and never link them.

Need help, I was not saying to update, I meant google may have done an automatic update.

JoAnn,

I see. It is always good to check to see that updates are current though.

Stacy,

I don’t use any of those social media sites either. My husband has a facebook account for work but not personally. My daughters have facebook. My youngest daughter loves TikTok and instagram.

Occasionally, I look at Pinterest for inspiration on a project.

I’m like you though, I don’t bother with the social media stuff.

Alva,

It is convenient to do banking online.

I think about the people who would have their social security checks stolen from their mailboxes years ago.

Nowadays, just about everyone is paid directly instead of paper checks by their employers.

Jeffrey, I LOVE that idea of yours. I MEAN that.
And I WISH that our admins would create a good communication thread dedicated to our BRIEF report of any technical problems, one we could all folllow ONLY for those problems.

Still, I think you may here be attempting to herd cats.
Hee hee. Your post alone gave me the giggles.
How long, now, have you known us?

We've had several threads over the years that have been dedicated to site problems or updates, inevitably there are very few who comment on them (generally the usual old regulars) and when the problems go away the threads fade into obscurity. It takes more time and effort to continually bump threads than most of us are willing to expend and this site refuses to pin anything (like the perpetually asked about abbreviations topic)

Alva,

Your sense of humor cracks me up!

I swear this site is haunted, now apparently we have at least one member whose existence has been erased.

Admin - reporting that all posts by NeedHelpWithMom have disappeared.

LOL! Doesn't seem to stop, does it!

She wasn't here earlier. Glad to see she is back!

I can see all of need's posts. She posted on Lea's thread 17 hours ago. If she doesn't show up posting today we will know something is wrong. She may have turned off private messaging. I am thinking seriously of doing so also.

If she doesn't show up today one of us needs to write that by email to AshleyH@aplaceformom because I don't really think anyone reads this thread much any more.

I sure would love to see one thread created by our admins in which we can report tech problems ONLY without discussing.

Definitely ghosts 👻🤣

NHWM 's posts are back now. Thank you, admin.

Hi Jeff,
I DID giggle.
WE ARE like a herd of cats.
We have ALWAYS been a herd of cats.
But we can help. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was asking how long you have been here and how well you know us. Because we are like a mess of cats that simply cannot be herded.
I think that the My Profile (witness you and me) will not be the place. I DO think if the ADMINS created one profile that is labeled "Please report all techinical difficulties here WITHOUT discussion" if might work.
Hope I didn't offend you by calling us a herd of cats. It's how I see us; I doubt I will ever see us another way after about four years here.