Considering Retiring my Account

Excuse me? You don't have custody of the children, and you still wish to claim admin access to their accounts? From a legal perspective, you have no right. Legally, if they are living with your ex, she is the guardian.

But that is quite besides the point. Perhaps you are ignorant of how the law works in regard to websites. Amazingly, Californian law could only be seen to apply to Facebook if the servers were located in California. Even if this were not the case, nothing illegal is being done by any parties - except perhaps your own attempt to gain unauthorised access to another person's account on a website.

Children being legally defined as children means nothing, as there is no law against children talking to people on a social networking site that I'm aware of. Even if there was, it wouldn't be the website that could be punished unless it was physically located in an area to which the law applied.

A little background on the sacrifice:  It is apparently the most humane way to take the life of an animal and two thirds of all the meat actually goes to the poor and hungry.  It’s considered something rather benevolent. 

A Russian friend of mine said he’d never seen anything like that and asked that I take pictures on the day of the event.  Most of my family thought it was odd that I was photographing the situation. 

I made a photo album to share little pieces of my life with Chess.com friends…and I thought this photo was a part of that. 

Bigpoison.  You are absolutely right about that.  I have the most hilarious story…growing up in Europe and the US…I was in a third world country and I one day threw a tantrum about needing to go to a grocery store that was an hour away to get apple sauce.  A woman asked me if we could pick apples from the orchard to make this “apple sauce”…and I looked at her incredulously and said “nooo, it is made in factories…they do stuff to it”.  I looked on the internet an hour later and was horrified to see recipes for homemade apple sauce containing little more than cinnamon, boiled apples…and the homemade version was like a million times better.  That was embarrassing.  And true.

If you have full joint legal custody [and really, congratulations on attempting to mislead me on that count just so you could say "Wrong again!" in your next post. It really helps your argument], it is once again within your responsibility to control your children's access to the internet in conjunction with the other guardians. It is NOT Facebook's responsibility to provide you with the ability to violate their users' privacy. They are to keep all account details secure, and there is where their involvement ends unless police action is warranted. Do you understand this? It is up to you and your ex to keep them from Facebook, and set parental internet controls, password your router, block sites from their access, but Facebook is under no obligation to help you do it.

Please provide an account of what, exactly, Facebook has done that is illegal in California. You have no automatic admin access rights to your children's account. This exact issue was taken up with Myspace, and that is still around. Dangerous? Sometimes. Morally dubious? Perhaps. Legally unsound? Not a chance. Your children are above the age required to create an account. And instead of repeating that you should be able to log in as them whenever you wish, provide an actual source that backs up your claims.

Report away, my friend. I don't believe that I have flamed you, nor been abusive. You may simply block me if you wish to ignore these posts; this function is allowed here, just as it is on Facebook.

And every time we set up the pieces!

 i concur ,least sarky post ive seen from you ....are you feeling ok?  :P

Afaf:

I'd like to second that!  You make this a better and more interesting site.  If you absolutely feel threatened by your loss of privacy, terminate your present account and reincarnate with a more cautious attitude toward revealing private information.  

Remember, if you can get yourself deleted by Chess.com, all evidence of your previous existence will vanish forever  

 back on form  ,sarky (i can do italics too) is an english common slang for mordant (another great word)

After the map your location should be near or on Karamzininkatu, not so nice that everybody can see where you are connected from or?

who really cares one way or the other...just thinking outloud

my map location shows me as bloody miles away - a ferry trip - 2 hrs by boat !! I is kinda happy with that - it obviously where the signal for my internet thingy is picked up just a bit of bad luck, Afaf, that u is obviously located quite close to your relay station

click on members and interactive map , as a premium member you should be able to search for individual player

Click on search members and there is a interactive map on your right side. It does make a difference if you don't want everybody to know where you are.

On facebook you have the option of only allowing the people you've added as friends view your profile and message you.  You can even set it so you're invisible to searches.  On my facebook page I have the privacy settings at such a level that no information about me is visible and only a few people are capable of talking to me.  Not because I'm paranoid, I just don't use it.  I don't have a phone either.  If someone's kids are using facebook for chatting with pedophiles it's an issue of teaching the kids in question not to be retarded.  Kids are dumb, and I hate kids, but if you beat them enough then sometimes they can get the message.

I wish the pictures of the sacrifice were still around.  Sounds like fun.  Send them to tbierig@chess.com I'd love to see them.

This map sounds kind of strange- I've never seen that feature.  I'll hunt around to see if I can find it.  I wonder why they added such a thing?  Regardless I bet few people bother to use it, and I bet nobody has ever looked up the topic creator's current location.

I think that if you enjoy it here still, then these are no reasons to leave.

That map thing is a little weird - why exactly do they have to include member's names?  Does the site really need to be so precise about showing where users are located?  Kill it, I say.

Bummer-- I don't seem to exist on that map, unless my marker is so far away from my real location that I'm not finding it . . .

--Cystem

No, it's because your decoder ring is broken.  That thing works double duty.

You do and you schould be near somewhere called Pheasant Rd  and  Co Rd C

To hide your location, go to http://proxify.com, then enter chess.com into the text box. It will keep a banner at the top of the screen and uses ads for revenue (unless you want to subscribe). There are various options, to block cookies, etc.

i dont have premium membership , on my map it shows my location next to westminster bridge , im living the dream:)