Facebook is getting bigger and bigger and there's lots in the news about privacy being exploited in the social media network. This article from Scott Mace of Windows Secrets has some great tips.
In their hunt for market dominance, social networks Facebook, Google Buzz,
and Microsoft Live are redefining what
social means __ and in the
process, straining the bounds of personal privacy.
Facebook, the big daddy of these three, has made quiet changes to its privacy
settings, ones that members need to understand if they are going to manage the
distribution of their personal information.
I find Facebook useful,
mostly as a way to stay in touch with a select set of my friends and former
co-workers. It's not my public soapbox nor a window into my personal life, left
open to the world __ for that, I have blogs and Twitter.
As much as I like
Facebook, it has a flaw that I'll never see in my blogs and hopefully never see
with Twitter. It seems the proprietors of Facebook find it necessary, desirable,
or profitable to change member privacy settings, usually with little notice to
members. In every case I can think of, privacy settings have become more relaxed
__ more open, if you will.
What's beneficial for Facebook, however, is not
necessarily good for members __ their personal information might end up in places
they never intended. The world is filled with marketers who would love to know
increasingly more about you. And if that doesn't concern you, the world also
contains stalkers and hackers who might use that personal information toward
evil ends.
You should take your Facebook (or any other social network)
privacy as seriously as you do protection from malware on your PC.
Keep
in mind that all the big social networks continually tweak privacy settings.
This is not just a Facebook problem.
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