Well, I'm sorry to have been part of the problem. Yes, Karyn, it erased my email address book and hubby's too. I feel kinda leery of opening any emails now. I have received several from Mariam recently with no subject that I deleted, and another that was suspicious, saying someone "needed some advice"- too close to someone "needing your help"!!! I let everyone know that I could by posting on FB but not everyone is on Facebook. Good luck getting back on track, whomever was hacked. My aunt was even hacked from me, and she is 77- what a PITA for her!! ~Brenda B

Some surveys that I do ask for my birthdate. I've lately been telling them to take a hike ... that if they insist, I'll lie. That's one of the major pieces of information useful to identity thieves. That I don't question the integrity of the (well-known) company ... ... but ... ... the identity thieves make buckets of money. Aren't above passing some of it around - including to individual employees of companies who have access to sensitive information. ole joyful

lol, I ignored MIL's friend request. NO WAY!!! But, I was already FB friends with BIL & SIL because they have been on FB since I opened my account, MIL just opened hers. I'd hate to delete it because ONE person wants to write nasty things to me. I know this doesn't sound nasty to most people but the ONLY time she posts anything is to "confront" me about SD. When DH took SD shopping for school clothes (because I refused to take her), I commented something to him like "good luck shopping with a teen girl..lol" and SIL went off on me... even her son who's 15 had something to say.. as if I was writing nasty mean things about SD. Later on, they both said they felt they needed to "protect" SD and defend her. Um, mothers of teen girls write stuff like that all the time.. or worse. I am about to unfriend her. I just don't get why she doesn't unfriend me... obviously she doesn't like me & has nothing nice to say to me. I don't 'not like' her, I don't know her. I have felt sorry for her because of the way MIL talks about her... I know she took the brunt before I came along. It's more about THAT than it being posted on FB. I'm beginning to dread Christmas, which is probably what they want... so I don't go. I may just give them what they want & let DH go alone. My DIL expressed an interest in seeing DGS that day so I may offer to drive him so I have a good reason to not go with DH... I don't really feel I need a reason at all but at least DH can explain to his mom that I had to go instead of it looking like I just don't want to go see them... lol, which I really don't. Grrrr! It does make me angry that I am willing to suck it up & be nice for DH's sake. I ordered personalized gifts for them & was going to go & be gracious/cordial but now I don't know if I could muster a fake smile for that group. I'm pretty sure DH would understand if I don't want to go but they would give him a hard time... and I don't see him standing up to them. He might, but I doubt it. He wants everyone to just get along.

I don't find facebook to be boring at all. I've been a member on online communities since 1998 and think that facebook is a fantastic way of keeping up with friends and acquaintances that are now scattered around the globe. I'm selective about how I send and accept friend requests from and I would say there are only about 10 people on my friend list that I don't know personally and they are friends of friends. Actually, a group that I've been a member since 98 lost someone very recently. She suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was gone within 48 hours. I never had the privileged of meeting her in person, but my loss is just as profound as if we people who met for lunch every week. Anyway, my community gathered together on facebook chat around the time they took her off life support and it was a great comfort to us to be together in real time (rather than on our message board) to support each other and celebrate her life. Gosh, sorry for the total off topic babbling. I was just anti-facebook for years, because I am protective of my privacy. But then I realized that my facebook experience can be what I want it to be and not what the "facebook machine" says it should be. Also, if you've been hacked, please do what lindyluwho said and let people know! I've had relatives that have been hacked and they didn't tell people, so some of their friends and family also got hacked.