Anyone with special facebook pages?

BROMONT, Quebec (Nov. 22) -- A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.\

Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from insurance giant Manulife.

But the payments dried up this fall and when Blanchard called Manulife, she says she was told she was available to work because of Facebook.

She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on Facebook, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sunny holiday.

Blanchard said Manulife told her it's evidence she is no longer depressed. She's fighting to get her benefits reinstated and says her lawyer is exploring what the next step should be.

Blanchard told the CBC that on her doctor's advice, she tried to have fun, including nights out at her local bar with friends and short getaways to sun destinations, as a way to forget her problems.

Manulife wouldn't comment on Blanchard's case, but did say they would not deny or terminate a claim solely based on information published on Web sites such as Facebook.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

(long-term sick leave for depression? What bullshit...Go to work you lazy fuck. Here's a perfect example of what we can expect in the future under Obamacare)

Below is the link for a novel way to use Facebook.

http://albotas.com/2009/12/brother-posts…

I just don't like the idea of putting so mich of my personal life out there and making it available, even with all the access controls in place. In an eraa of obsession with losing privacy of financial and medical information, some seem to have no qualms about sharing other stuff. How ironic.

I never thought about that, but I'd have to do it.

I never understood why strip clubs, corporations, etc are allowed to have Facebook accounts. I always thought those sites were for social networking not for corporate advertising. It seems wrong to allow essentially a fictitious name of a company to social network there.

gator: It's just there to spread information. I don't think it causes any problems, so why do anything about it?

For the simple reason that supposedly social networking sites are not supposed to be spam laden. I am not a proponent of social networking sites because they ask for too much personal information. Allowing companies to have a greater accessibility to the information is only going to make for greater privacy concerns.

I think Facebook and the other networking sites should seriously reconsider whether they ask for so much information, email addresses, phone #s, home addresses, etc or they really need to make it alot simpler to restrict the information (have you ever seen the settings function on Facebook, you have to check 50 boxes to restrict your info).

My ATF (who I see otc) and her sexy friends use FB. She is very liberal with the photos showing her in sexy dresses, bikini, etc. I am sure this is a way for them to meet men as many of them do escort work too. What baffles me is what does her husband think of all this as he is a friend of hers on FB. If they are married, FB is probably an alternative to an all out hooker ad on backpage.com She has told me stories about one of her FB friends who no longer dances but is married and sees clients..She says that gal specializes in BJ and they would team up and do a guy in the with the friend giving him BJ then her finishing him off with fucking. I have wanted to get that friend in a session for a threesome but she says she is expensive - - $400. I am tempted to put in a friend request to the friend and see what the real price is LOL.

What I like about their FB or MySpace pages is it is a neat way to access photos of them to download for archives.

I got an email a couple of months ago from one of these sites. They wanted my permission to add my name to one of their user's net work. I knew the person. An ex co worker. But I have no interest in these sites.The people that I really want to be in contact with, I am in contact with.

Some of my relatives are on facebook I've heard, so I would want to make sure they don't know I'm on there if some of the people on my friends list are exotic dancers. hmmm, I never really did much of a people search on there.

MySpace Tom Or CraigsList Craig: Who’s Tougher?

The two main characters in the movie Funny People, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, visit MySpace for a $300,000 paid comedy gig. Among a variety of “f**ck Facebook, In the Face” jokes (said two or three times. really) was some really good material, including Rogen asking “I wonder if Tom and Craigfrom Craigslist would ever get in a fight….Who’s tougher? Tom has more friends…Craig has weirder friends though. Craig has friends that are willing to do a lot more for cash, I’ll say that.”

MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson asks Sandler if he actually uses the product. The star's reply: "No, no no. I fuck girls, Tom. I don't have time for that." When he goes on stage, the comic greets the MySpace crowd as "nerds" and then trashes their users: "They say the more friends you have on MySpace the less friends you have in real life." .

But MySpace is based in Beverly Hills, close to Hollywood, and seems to have a better handle on the big picture: Being on the silver screen, in any context, means you're culturally relevant.

My school (in effect) "requires" that we all use Facebook. The student social groups, and some academic clubs, are no longer supported by the school itself in certain specific ways, such as offering internet-hosting. So, if you want to run (for example) a volunteer group to clean up a children's playground, you have to be able to connect with people and make announcements through some independent internet provider other than the University's web-servers, unless you go about some rigamarole that takes approximately three years to become an "established" and "account-holding" student group. In other words, if I want to run a new club, I have to do all my computer communications through Facebook (or MySpace, or LinkedIn, or some other similar service); and if I want to be able to recruit new members, it will have to be done through Facebook; and if students want to BE recruited by cool new clubs, and want to participate in 'student life' at large, then they will have to have a visible, active Facebook profile.

It's stupid. Another way that universities are "opting out" and "sub-contracting." This particular sub-contractor is FREE ...

I think I'm going to have to create a facebook profile just to suit one of my relatives. Apparently I can not view pics without being a member. This means I probably need two different accounts in case a dancer finds one but I only want her using a different one. I do not want my relatives asking who is this girl and why does she call herself the name of a car, etc. etc.

"Here's a perfect example of what we can expect in the future under Obamacare"

What does any of this Quebec story have to do with U.S. health care reform??
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"I always thought those sites were for social networking not for corporate advertising."

I'm guessing that you haven't been on some of these social networking sites very much. It ALL about advertising, that's how anyone makes money off of those kind of sites.

Strippers seem to shy away from FB in favor of MySpace because of the amount of info that's readily available on there.

"Strippers seem to shy away from FB in favor of MySpace because of the amount of info that's readily available on there."

I think it is probably because FB was started for college students and originally required an .edu email to register. The demographics are more upscale. Myspace was promoted by celebrities/Hollywood and the strippers probably signed up for myspace with their friends because they wanted to follow their favorite celebrities. A lot of strippers I know have that narcissism thinking they could make it out in hollywood.

The real question is though who really cares lol