OT: *($*^$%@#&* Facebook

out there got any bright ideas??? CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)

> 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

>> 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
> 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!
> Jinx

>
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Jinx
>>
>
> 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.
>
> HTH,
> Jinx
>
>

> I'd try contacting them or otherwise digging around here
>
> http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=756
>
> Cheryl
>

CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)