More facebook creepiness

[ritaxis]

Okay, this is really really creepy. I just got an error message in Czech from facebook. It said that I must be logged in to continue. I was logged in. I wasn't doing anything with facebook. When I hit cancel I was still logged in. But really, facebook? Every single aspect of that was wrong. Why Czech? what did you think I wanted to do? Who did you think I was, to not be logged in?
I know exactly enough Czech to recognize that it is Czech and not Polish.

I tried to post this there and got another error box labelled in Czech. But the actual error is in English: "There was an application error. Please try again later."

I was able to fix it by logging out, switching the login page from Czech to English, and logging back in. But why did it think I was logged out when I was logged in? And who told it I had become a Czech speaker? I didn't. I mean, I do have a Czech textbook and an ilustrovany slovnik next to the computer, but I only poke at it desultorily, since I don't have the money to visit Frank this year.

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Do you have a Verizon phone, by any chance? One thing going around--which also hit a friend of mine--is that somehow a FB hack gives them access to putting third party charges on your Verizon phone if you log into certain dubious areas on FB.

Another way around this is to tell Verizon (or maybe any other service too) not to allow any third party charges.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if the page had not been hacked in order to get information about me. But no, my phone is some other thing, a prepaid tracfone. I think all the direct information that could have been gotten is just the facebook password and my email, but I don't keep my email private anywhere on the web anyway.