Been chucked out of CAMC facebook group

Been a member of CAMC Facebook group for a couple of years, found got occasional useful info re sites, but lots of moaning about the club. Yesterday morning someone posted about being surprised that CAMC had taken balance of their site fees overnight prior to their arrival and did anyone else know about this and how disappointed they were as they liked to pay cash.

Anyway I replied, quite politely I thought, that this had been well discussed on the group and inquired if they had not seen the posts, also added that the situation re taking payment was well documented in CAMC booking t&Cs and during online booking process.

Outcome is I have been removed from group with no explanation of what rule I have transgressed, nor I have i been informed of the sanction but group no longer appears in my Facebook list of groups and I can't access it using search.

Ho hum. So much for trying to be helpful. Will now need to learn how to cope without my feed being full of whinging about CMC

I’m not a FB person either. OH joined to use Marketplace but it seemed too intrusive and the account was immediately closed again.

Too paranoid for a smart speaker, Prof. Hannah Fry took one to bits for TV program last year and looked at the tech, very intrusive and always listening. At least with phone I can customise settings, even then adverts do appear on FB soon after talking about related topics when phone is allegedly off and in my pocket.

Smart speaker - no way! I worry about the smart TV……

Exactly, Al!

I’m not paranoid but that doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me 

I cancelled my membership to CAMC a while ago and all there emails go in to my spam folder, they keep sending me postal mail with forms to renew my membership and a prepaid envelope, I write in big letters on the form that they are no longer a members club with the site prices that they are charging and are far too dear and post it back to them in the prepaid envelope, they then get charged for the pleasure

I see smart meters in same vein as self-service tills in supermarkets,  both have taken away jobs.

During lockdown we had a Portal to keep in touch with sons family, you could close the camera but the microphone was always on and every so often it would light up, sold it on ebay last week. We have a smart TV but it doesn't have built in Alexa or Google Assistant and we don't have Alexa in house .

I do use Facebook though., but only within closed groups.

FreelanderUK wrote:Post a reply I cancelled my membership to CAMC a while ago and all there emails go in to my spam folder, they keep sending me postal mail with forms to renew my membership and a prepaid envelope, I write in big letters on the form that they are no longer a members club with the site prices that they are charging and are far too dear and post it  back to them in the prepaid envelope, they then get charged for the pleasure

They’ll get the message eventually. I left 12 months ago but I still have a bit of fun on their forum spotting which newcomer is a doppelgänger of a recently banned poster 

Unfortunately Facebook is invaluable as a source of up-to-date info for some subjects, and there seems to be no subsititute - so I've found recently that I have no choice but to use it occasionally. IMO all you can do is to minimise the amount of personal info you reveal about yourself when posting in those groups, and to use one of the browser plugin/extensions that prevent Facebook from tracking your activity (I use "Facebook Container" for Firefox, which prevents Facebook from monitoring you activities while you are not using FB itself).

Smart meters are also a necessary evil in some cases. I've just bought a secondhand EV, and I can charge that at a quarter of my daytime electricity rate if I have a smart meter - so that is a big saving.