Brian: well said, and all valuable advice. I've never been concerned that any of my personal information would be leaked to anyone here at the forum; this is additional comfort.

It's a huge topic of course and you've nailed a lot of it. For myself anyway I find Facebook stupid and time-consuming. I tried it for maybe 6 months. I know it's habit-forming and for many people incredibly involving. And that it can be helpful in business, etc. Just doesn't add up for me.

Many try to take steps to mitigate the borrowing/theft of our personal info online. Anti-virus, spyware blockers, etc. I also recently installed a shareware program that (allegedly) blocks third party sites from grabbing things from you when you visit web pages. At the moment the counter is showing only one request on this page as I type, from Google. So that's a big plus for OCF. By contrast, when I open up CNN dot com, for one example, the counter hits 50 within 30 seconds... and goes over 100 within a minute or so. Jeesh.

All of this will make you crazy. But I'm glad you guys are on the job, as always. Thank you.