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Julie Bove[_2_] Julie Bove[_2_] is offline
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Default Off topic for sure, but I have a small quandary


> wrote in message
...
>
> I don't know if any of you have ever heard of the site "Nextdoor" but it's
> a
> site for specific neighborhoods in your area. You can post helpful infor-
> mation, items for sale, upcoming meetings, etc.
>
> This past week-end someone posted a bogus for sale item that required
> signing
> into the site again. It was a posting hopefully to steal a posters
> information
> but it only succeeded in locking me out of the site. When I signed up for
> the
> site several months ago I used "ItsJoanNotJoAnn" as my sign-on name but
> now
> since this phishing post they are demanding to unlock my account I m.u.s.t
> give the administrator my full first and last name. I am NOT comfortable
> in
> using my real, honest-to-goodness name on any social site even though they
> claim it is completely secure. Yeah, right. It's so secure they've
> already
> had a phishing scam on it.
>
> Anyway, my quandary is do I fork over my real name or tell them to delete
> my
> account?


I tried that and quit after a few weeks. Some guy kept emailing me and
telling me that my dog was pooping in his yard. I had no yard. I saw nothing
useful there. It was hard to log into. We have local FB groups that are much
better.