January 18th, 2010
If ever you need to know the importance of protecting your private information on Facebook, the following article makes some great points on the need to secure your information and when you have the president of the United States agreeing with that warning, you should take note.
Not only are you protecting your own private information, your settings are also protecting your friends private information. You are doing yourself a favour and your friends also. Don’t forget they can’t change your settings and if they are securing themselves against unwanted interest, they kind of need your support too.
Effectively, what this means is you should not still be using the Facebook default settings. You are open to the whole world. By following the steps outlined in the article, you will go along way to protecting your information and your friends also.
One of the main things to watch out for are unknown applications that you agree to let use your profile information. When you agree, the application also gets access to all the profile information of all your friends aswell.
Also, you might have 754 friends but are they all close friends or friends you’ve lost touch with through the years or people you met once or twice. They could be work related friends or people you know from work. The point is do all 754 friends need to know your thoughts that you only want your family or close friends knowing. You can split your friends up into groups or lists.
By using lists, you now determine who gets to know what about you. This is also a major factor for employers because they will check up about you on the web before potential interviews. Make no mistake about that, they 100% check you out before you get that interview so you can imagine, they don’t need to know what you do in your social life.
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This is something i would have never have thought of and will think that we all need to be very cautious going forward. I think that all of us at some time or another have put something up on Face book or one of the other Social media sites that we possibly should not have. I get friends requests multiple times a day and have started to be very cautious regarding accepting these requests. I usually track the request and see how they got my details etc, 9 times out of 10 its someone trying to establish a connection for ulterior motives, spam etc
I think this article has once again highlighted that we all need to be more aware of what we are positing to social media sites etc