Editorial Cartoon: Facebook and Email

Editorial Cartoon: Facebook, Email and Privacy

Here is a potential real FAIL for you.  Facebook has announced that they will now offer email service for it’s members allowing you to send emails to people outside your friend list.  With all the controversy surrounding privacy issues with Facebook, I think I’ll take a pass.

What embarrassing things could Facebook reveal to your “friends” if this happened?  C’mon you can tell us; it won’t get past this blog.

Comments

86 responses to “Editorial Cartoon: Facebook and Email”

  1. Brad Avatar

    Exactly. I don’t need my friends reading about my addiction to cheap wiener pills!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Oscar Meyer or Ball Park?

    2. susi spice Avatar

      duncanr knows where to get cheap wiener pills

      1. Bearman Avatar

        How would you know?

        1. susi spice Avatar

          i saw him buying them… after he ate my yoghurt loaf

          1. Bearman Avatar

            “after he ate my yoghurt loaf” That isn’t something you should write on a blog when people don’t know the backstory. They may take it the wrong way.

          2. Friggin Loon Avatar

            Blahahahahaa Bearman 🙂

          3. Lynn Avatar
            Lynn

            and colorful euphemisms abound…

  2. Tony Avatar

    I don’t trust Facebook & after reading an article about their security issues & sharing their users personal details with developers etc I deleted my account

    1. Brad Avatar

      And especially now with email messaging? How secure could it be?

      1. Bearman Avatar

        I’m sure it is secure until they change some privacy settings accidentally on purpose.

        1. Tracy Ingram Avatar

          I just don’t know what facebook is thinking. They are already under-fire. I love the comments here on this post.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            From their standpoint it is a good thing but given the privacy issues they should come out with a clear statement on it.

    2. Friggin Loon Avatar

      Oh for crying out loud Tony, you friggin delete everything anyways 🙂

      1. Bearman Avatar

        No he just goes back and forth haha

  3. Jillsy Girl Avatar

    I’m not sure I get it. What’s the difference between an email and a message, except one uses your email address which would in turn give it to the recipient?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      With email you can send a message to someone outside your friend list or even if they don’t have facebook.

      Messages are strictly for facebook friends.

      1. Jillsy Girl Avatar

        No they’re not. I’ve sent messages to people on FB who are not yet my friends.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          But they are ON Facebook. This would let you send them an email to their yahoo account, gmail, etc.

          1. Jillsy Girl Avatar

            would you get to see their address?

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Not sure yet how it will work.

          3. Lynn Avatar
            Lynn

            i’m so confused. should i just delete my fb account now and call it good?

  4. jynksie Avatar

    I don’t have a Facebook account, so the e-mail is no matter for me. Why? I have things to hide and Facebook would be my undoing! o.O (not really, I just don’t give a crap about all these social media pieces of crap. If I want to socialize, I’ll go interface w/ a real live person!)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I thought you came here to socialize…

  5. Joe Avatar

    If that happened everyone would know how boring I am o.O

    1. Bearman Avatar

      haha…well at least no one would have overly inflated expectations of you anymore.

  6. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    I try never to put anything anywhere on the internet that I would be afraid of anyone finding out.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Always a good rule of thumb…but then again email should be a little more private.

  7. bschooled Avatar

    HA!

    Just so you know, “Smelly Naked Girls on Trampolines” is actually a very educational publication, Bearman.

    (Or, so I’ve heard.)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I tried to think of the most out there porn addiction I could. Figures one of my readers would be into that kind of stuff.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          ha…as if I should have even doubted.

      1. lynn Avatar
        lynn

        it’s like this: any disgusting thing you could ever possibly imagine, there’s a guy out there somewhere wanking off to it. WHAT?? too much?

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Seriously do not doubt it.

  8. John K Avatar

    Haha! Awesome! Yeah I’ll pass…and thanks for reminding me about my smelly girls subscription!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That subscription ending always seems to sneak up on you and hit you in the nose.

  9. Nate Fakes Avatar

    So true! I’m not touching Facebook email. Everyday, I get request, messages, etc. from “friends” who didn’t send them. And it’s not safe now to open up a message in Facebook now, so this is going to make it worst probably.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Sure..they say they didn’t send them but they are probably stalking you.

      1. Nate Fakes Avatar

        I must have some pretty dedicated stalkers

  10. DadaHyena Avatar

    I’ve actually had that happen more than once with my regular e-mails (accidentally forwarding something to nearly everyone you know), and it’s damned awful. I can see this happening on Facebook.

    …and I have to say that I got a big laugh out of today’s installment, namely “Smelly Naked Girls on Trampolines”. Order me up a subscription, yessir!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Wow, I think I am going to have to start that magazine. Who knew it would be a hit.

  11. jammer5 Avatar

    Thanks for the reminder. I gotta redo my subscription to Roadhouse Girls who Drink Beer and cant Shoot Pool.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I thought all Roadhouse girls knew how to shoot pool.

      1. DadaHyena Avatar

        I could have sworn he said, “Roadhouse Girls who Drink Beer and shoot poo”. God, my dyslexia sure makes life interesting.

        But a magazine about girls shooting out poo would be wrong. VERY wrong.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Ugh…I just baby barfed on that one….gee thanks

      2. jammer5 Avatar

        I go to some pretty low class roadhouses. The women there aren’t too well known for their pool skills.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I guess there is a reason I don’t hang with you. haha

  12. Duncanr Avatar

    I’m too much of a cheapskate to subscribe to “Smelly Naked Girls on Trampolines” – but if you wouldn’t mind passing on your copy when you’ve finished with it ? 😆

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Looking at the comments, it appears there are plenty of people with a subscription

  13. SpilledInkGuy Avatar
    SpilledInkGuy

    But think of all the additional people I could send the results of my ‘quizzes’ to! Come-on … who wouldn’t want to know what my favorite color REALLY says about me! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Your favorite color says you are preoccupied with thinking about sex.

      1. SpilledInkGuy Avatar
        SpilledInkGuy

        Ha! Look at all the time you’ve just saved me, Bearman! Now I don’t have to e-mail those results to everyone on my Facebook contact list! 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I do what I can.

  14. G Avatar

    Sorry….after my dysfunctional experiences with Hotmail, Outlook (for work), and Yahoo, the absolute last thing I want is e-mail from a website that is notorious for making you opt out of things that you don’t want.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      C’mon…I don’t think you have pissed off enough people on the web. Revealing your emails might only help. haha

      1. G Avatar

        Au contraire kind and thoughtful sir.

        I managed to piss off loads of people on the web. All I do is act like myself and PRESTO! Instant enemies.

        Well, not quite PRESTO! because I still have to add milk, eggs, walnettos, stir vigoroulsy (but not shaken), pour onto a cookie tray using the oil from those smelly naked trampoline girls as a proper greasing (please get your mind out of the gutter) agent and cook for 35 minutes @ 375 1/2 degrees until a crispety golden brown.

        Then PRESTO! Instant enemies!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          So you really have to cultivate the anger towards you.

          1. G Avatar

            Oh absolutely. You be amazed how much work it takes to get a whole website, in varying degrees, angry at you. 😀

  15. George Avatar

    I wouldn’t trust Facebook with any information that I wouldn’t mind someone trying to blackmail me with in the future. 🙂 Those guys leak everything. But, of course, they couldn’t leak what we don’t tell them.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Sorry…be right back…your overuse of the word “leak” has made me need to use the restroom.

  16. MJ Avatar

    Ha! Funny material. I might be able to swing a guest cartoon for December.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That would be GREAT!!

  17. Friggin Loon Avatar

    Geez, but how else can I keep in touch with all my long lost Nigerian relatives ?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Reach out and touch someone. Kind of like a Wednesday at the bar with Susi.

      1. Friggin Loon Avatar

        Now, in my defense Bearman he touched me first alright. He said he was a plastic surgeon and wanted to check out my br…. oh never mind.

      2. lynn Avatar
        lynn

        oh man…. where is the “like” button on this blog? this reply was awesome!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I don’t have them for individual comments, you just have to like the whole thing.

  18. Dan Avatar

    Bearman, you’re not seeing the big picture here. You could get twice as many Cialis emails with a new Fail account!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yes but do I want my friends to know if I am actually taking it.

  19. susi spice Avatar

    i like this cartoon a lot hahahaha

    i know i will not be using that facebook email.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Probably a good thing…potential men don’t want to read all the love letters from their competition.

  20. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    Thanks for the guest strip Bearman. I will be posting it tomorrow and leaving it up until my brain switches back on for one of the momentary spurts it has sometimes. It is truly an awesome gift. Thanks.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      My pleasure…sorry I didn’t get it to you earlier.

  21. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    I hate it when I put in the wrong email address and get that doofus avatar.

  22. Scott Oglesby Avatar

    Me being me, pretty much every thing I write is embarrassing in one way or another. Different people just get to see different embarrassing parts of me. If any one person ever saw the whole package of me all at once, I’d die of shame.

    I just saw the way that sounded and I refuse to take it back. See what I mean?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I just saw the way it sounded and I agree. However, anyone who has read your blog will figure out pretty quick that you have nothing to hide.

  23. Vodka and Ground Beef Avatar

    Facebook needs to just chill out. First they allow my boyfriend to change his relationship status to “single” without confirming it with me, and now this?? Total outrage.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I figured you would be mad b/c they don’t let you show multiple boyfriends on your profile. I mean you jump from one to another so much there has to be some crossover.

  24. bluntdelivery Avatar

    facespace is bananas lately.

    gwen stefani should write a song about it.

  25. Dr. Cynicism Avatar

    The human resources one is hilarious! Love it, as always Bearman!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Doc. I can imagine someone in a home office who thinks people can only see him from the waist up not realizing how far down the camera can see.

  26. BuyWoWAccount Avatar
    BuyWoWAccount

    Has their service started yet? I received a message from a friend yesterday, and I could read all of his other friends reply on that message. Not sure if this would be it.

    Buy WoW Account

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No it sounds like that was just a group message internally on facebook. This is a service where you can email people who aren’t on facebook.

  27. Colleen Dick Avatar

    That photo of me and the accordion is pretty incriminating. Hey, the Mariachis made me do it!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Don’t believe you. Mariachis only force you to play the maracas or wear a sombrero.