Poor lonesome guy
@GardenGerty (169474)
United States
July 10, 2017 6:06am CST
No, not General James B. McPherson. He gets lots of visitors at the park.
Three times yesterday, as well as at least two times in the past, I have received messages on Facebook that had a warning.
The warning was not to accept Jayden someone or other if I received a friend request from him. According to the message he has software that will allow him access to all of my friends and all of their personal data if I do. I have received this warning from at least three different parts of the country, yesterday.
I do not ever send any message on to all my contacts, but a lot of you are on that list, so just be warned.
Meanwhile, I am hopeful that some of you wise people like @jj or @owlwings or @Asylum will tell me what this guy would gain or how he would do it. What I really want to know is what the person who originated this bogus warning will gain from all of us forwarding this message to all of our contacts?
So guys, and gals, let me just say "be careful who you add as friends on Facebook". Heavens, even some of the legitimate ones can be pretty odd.
This has been a public service announcement from me and General James Birdseye McPherson.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
10 Jul 17
I hope someone can help you with this Heather.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I guess it is just a hoax all the way around. I have seen some other discussions about it. This is a real person, or possibly several real people and they have been given a hard time over something they know nothing about.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Jul 17
I don´t add any more except for close Family and that is very rare.
I don´t respond to the chat anymore either as a lot of junk is put in there and its not from friends as they have told me so.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I very seldom chat, except with family.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Jul 17
@GardenGerty
I got another one of those in the chat this morning and I ignored it.
@melindataylor22 (959)
• Waltham, Massachusetts
10 Jul 17
It is true that you have to be careful who you add on Facebook and if I add someone and they turn out weird I just block them.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I have added one or two weird ones there in the past. I do the same, or remove them. I have had one or two weird ones here.
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@melindataylor22 (959)
• Waltham, Massachusetts
12 Jul 17
@GardenGerty I have not had any problems with anyone on this site so far and have not had to remove anyone from here.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
Anna that is a very good point. It would not get blown so out of proportion, then.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Jul 17
I just had two of them this morning. I ignore them. I have no clue why they do this and to stay away from those messages is the best way to go.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
Since announcements have been put out telling people it is a hoax I have not gotten any more. There is one person I know from other online sites a few years ago that sends me all kinds of junk, to "please forward" or "like and share".
She is an intelligent and educated person, and I have no idea why she does this forward bit. It is not smart.
She is an intelligent and educated person, and I have no idea why she does this forward bit. It is not smart.@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Jul 17
@GardenGerty Educated does not mean street smart. I had a friend back home in NJ who was MENSA - VERY VERY smart - no common sense at all.
@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
10 Jul 17
I never add anyone I don't personally know from school, childhood, or family. But I did see it around 2am thsi morning.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Jul 17
They are doing that again. I had this happen about a year ago.I don't add anyone to my friend's list unless I know them.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I have had it in the past as well. This is the furthest I have seen it go though. In the past it was sometimes people who might not be well versed in the internet and might believe everything they read, but this time it included some very intelligent, educated friends of mine.
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@celticeagle (189833)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Jul 17
@GardenGerty .....That's terrible. I hope they know better now.
@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
11 Jul 17
I once friended someone who was on a friend list of a close friend. I saw that when the request came through. He was PROBABLY a foreign guy trolling for lonely women. She said she had never heard of him when I told her about his "come on". So I quickly unfriended him.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
7 May 18
@GardenGerty
I have also got that warning from facebook friends. This was quite awhile ago and I forgot what they said. These are people I trust and believe in when they say something. I made sure I never came across that person and was lucky did not.
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
7 May 18
The person in question never tried to connect, but I got messages recently from "Facebook User" and blocked him just in case.
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