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I won't touch FaceBook with a 10 foot pole. They have a horrid user agreement that basically says you have to keep your info current, that anything you post on the site is owned by them, that they can share your personal info with third parties, and so forth. MySpace has a much cleaner agreement.

If you must have a profile there, focus on linking it to a free Blog. Keep your content where its yours. As always, never put anything on the Net you wouldn't want the world to see, including your boss and parents.

Secondly, Its NOT secure. Other people have lifted thousands of profiles off of the servers and the news feeder feeds everything, including stuff you have set to "Private".

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Facebook user agreement is rather onerous. But for the vast majority of the people who use it, the fact that they "own" the content you post there means little or nothing. As for the scraping of profiles and private feeds, I'm almost positive these are problems that were fixed long ago. I can't find any recent news stories about this.

I went on Facebook because someone suggested it was a great way to do promotion. I work at a university and I wanted to outreach for my program to our students as an enhancement to our website.

Well, I ended up with was hundreds of virus laden spam email that continues to arrive despite my signing off the site (you never really get to go off the site...they leave your information in case you change your mind). Since this is the only site I signed up for with this particular email account, and I am on no lists with the account, I feel fairly safe in directing my irritation to Facebook's spam community.

I also signed up on Myspace with another address. It's not great but the virus spam is nothing like that which came swarming out of the Facebook connection. I will never go back to Facebook again. I would not have stayed on Facebook even if the spam had not been such a hideous problem. It was incredibly slow to do any updates on, and the interface seemed decidedly unfriendly. The experience was the worst I've had on a social networking site. I am puzzled by its popularity, I truly am.

I also used a separate email when registering with facebook and I must tell you - I did not get any spam! What viruses and spam you're talking about? frankly speaking that is the best social network I know today. And what truly amazes me is how can the ugly and useless myspace be so popular. well the question is probably among who! facebook and LinkedIn are two musts for everybody!

EDITOR'S NOTE: I agree... I've never gotten any spam or other unwanted emails in my Facebook signup email inbox.

I propose an electronic Jihad against this evil fascistic dictatorship run by a child. Please read my blog at www.myspace.com/djbobafett to see my running trials and tribulations with this site. At this point, they up and cancelled me, with over 200 hours of work on my site, pages, events, profiles and advertisements. They are billing my card even though I no longer have an account. I called the Palo Alto offices at 650-543-4800 to dispute the bill (as it's ads for a deleted site they're billing me for) and had to call 3 times before a human picked up. I talked to a female Sam (supposedly the only Sam that works there, yeah right) and she said they do NOT offer voice billing support. i told her that by refusing to work with me, she is okaying my choice to dispute the charges with my credit card company. We'll see. If you have ANY problems with the site or infrastructure, please call them, ask to talk to SAM, and tell them "DJ Boba Fett sent you."

So when a friend disappears and their comments remain on your wall but their name turns gray and unclickable, does that mean they have deleted their account or "unfriended" you?

When I Google their name a link comes up to their Facebook page, but when I click it it says "The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive."

EDITOR'S NOTE: Most likely they have deleted their account. If they unfriended you, it would say "you can't view this person's page unless you are their friend."

I found someone I knew on FB through Google and clicked "Add as friend" but I never got an acceptance notice. When I searched on him today, I could no longer find him and when I clicked on his FB link on Google search, it said "The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address". Does that mean he deleted his account or did he block me?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like he deleted his account.

Hello, May I ask you something else that is Facebook related? I have created a group that was accessible at Facebook.com/OntheBallBowling.com. However for the last two weeks when I try to reach the page from the above mentioned url I get the following error message - "You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.". Do you have any idea why and how can I fix it. Thank you. Peter

This question was asked a few months ago, and I get the same prompt, but their cached page still updates and they are still active in group and on there people's friends list. When I am not logged into FB I can see their page, when I'm logged in, I'm prompted "The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive."

Everytime I try to click on my profile I get

"The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive."

Is there anyway to fix this?

John Writes:

"Everytime I try to click on my profile I get

"The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive."

Is there anyway to fix this?"

You are not alone john, my profiles that way too