[Gloucs] Joining Facebook on Linux.

[Andrew Oakley]

On 27/08/2009, Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I understand that Facebook is NOT Linux friendly -  they suggest 
> changing to Windows !

Eh? I signed up several years ago from Ubuntu Dapper 6.06. I just tried
creating a new account using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and had no problems, and
got no warnings about Linux nor MS-Windows.

I was using:

Firefox 3.0.13
Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS
LXDE

I also had the acroread and adobe-flashplugin Firefox plugins, but I
didn't notice any Flash when signing up.

> Furthermore, in an effort to investigate, I tried to sign-up myself.
> It won't let me - it associates MY email address with Chris !

Do you and your son share the same email address? Facebook does use
email addresses to uniquely identify users.

Alternatively, are you sure it wasn't just remembering Chris' email
address from a cookie saved during a previous session? ("Remember me"
etc)

-- 
Andrew Oakley

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