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Posted by Cheryl Isaak on June 23, 2009, 6:40 am
On 6/23/09 2:34 AM, in article h1ptc5$3a1$1@news.eternal-september.org,
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>>> Rant time again. So, at least half the known world is signed up with
>>> Facebook, including almost all of my family and most of my friends. I
>>> decide I should sign up too and did just that early last week. Sign up
>>> went OK and I wrote a few things to some of the people who I am now
>>> "friends" with.
>>> Next day, I go back to Facebook to see what the family & other friends
>>> have had to say. I had gotten the e-mails from FB telling me that
>>> everyone I wanted to be "friends" with had accepted. So I go to sign in
>>> and they won't accept my password. I try 3 or 4 times throughout the day
>>> but no luck. So I click the little "reset password" button and wait for
>>> the e-mail telling me what the new password is. I wait an hour & no
>>> e-mail. I wait half a day and no e-mail. I wait until the next morning
>>> and no e-mail. So over the next few days, I try 2 or 3 more times to
>>> reset the password and still don't get an e-mail from FB with the new
>>> password. VBS, I delve through the Help section and find the "Trouble
>>> signing in to FB" and fill out the form and send it off to them. Within
>>> less than 30 minutes, I have a reply asking me to verify who I am by
>>> replying to that e-mail. I do this and wait another day. STILL No
>>> Password. I wait another day. Still No Password. So the next day, I
>>> respond to the original e-mail again and ask them what's going on.
>>> No response yet so I'm not sure just what the deal is. I went back
>>> and tried to reset the password again just a few hours ago but never got
>>> the e-mail with the new password. VBS -- back to the Help page and went
>>> through the whole routine of filling out the form, yadda, yadda, yadda.
>>> I looked through the stuff at the bottom of the Home page to see if there
>>> was any way to contact them but nothing was obvious. HMMM --
>>> maybe I need to wade further into the Help Page to see if they have
>>> listed any contact info -- like an e-mail addy. I did that the first
>>> time I couldn't log in but not with much enthusiasm.
>>> Needless to say, I am NOT impressed with Facebook! WHAT is wrong with
>>> ordinary old e-mail or IM's? Of course, the nieces and nephews are all
>>> giggling because Tia Mary is the only OLD person they know with enough
>>> chutzpah to sign up -- LOLOL! Now, if I could just get access to the
>>> *(*($*^#$^* site, I might be able to do some damage :-)! Anybody out
>>> there got any bright ideas??? CiaoMeow >^;;^<
>>> --
>>> PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
>>> Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
>>> their whiskers!
>>> Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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>> Are you sure you were logging in on an "official" Facebook webpage?? I
>> once lost a Yahoo account to a phishing scheme and your story here sounds
>> exactly the same as what I experienced way back when. Be wary of "fake"
>> sign in pages, but you probably already know that!
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>> Jinx
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> And bad form to follow up my own post, but...is it possible when you created
> the account you made an error in your email address? That would explain not
> getting the password reset emails. Go to the main facebook page and try
> creating a new account using the same email address. If it lets you, then a
> data entry mistake must've been made, otherwise, it gives you a little
> dialog box telling that there is already an account associated with that
> email.
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> HTH,
> Jinx
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Well, Mary, I found you on FB, so you're really there.
I'd try contacting them or otherwise digging around here
http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=756
Cheryl
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