With the recent revelations about how your information can be used on FACEBOOK here are a 3 things you can do to protect yourself, your family and friends.
ONLY allow your friends
to view your full profile. Change your
settings now, seriously, this is the one thing you
should always do. Apart from reducing unsolicited friend requests, it
stops strangers stalking your page, stops strangers learning things
about you and stops strangers commenting and copying things on or
from your profile.
Go into the privacy
check-up in the help centre menu and go through the 3 steps that are
prompted.
- Only allow friends to view posts
- Delete out all those apps you have allowed access to your page (remember that quiz you took to find out your favourite animals and colours)
- Ensure ONLY your friends can see any personal details.
ONLY allow your friends
to view your friend list.
Click on your friends,
click the manage button as shown below:
And change the
drop-downs to FRIENDS only.
This especially stops
anyone viewing your profile, gathering information about your friends
and then approaching you with a message like “OMG, can we be
friends, I see you went to the same school as me with Joe Bloggs”
etc...
When you have made your
profile more secure, don't be accepting friend requests willy-nilly.
Only accept them if you actually know then or if you actually have
friends in common.
Also do regular purges of your friends list. I use the birthday reminder to help, when I get a notification and if I don't know who the person is without clicking into their profile they are toast.
Stop putting
information on facebook divulging stuff about yourself.For example...
My first dog, Henry
died yesterday and we are all heartbroken...
Hang on, a popular
security question is “name your first pet”.
Look at this lovely
picture of my little girl (Mary) first day at school, her teacher
Miss Murphy is soooo nice
Wow, big mistake on so
many levels...
a. There are any number
of freeks out there that can use the photo (especially with geotag if
you have it turned on) to find out where she goes to school (crest on
jumper)
b. They now know her
name, approx age,what she looks like (their type...ooohhhhh on so
many levels) and could even approach her on the street.
“Hi Mary, I was
talking to your mum the other day, she is so proud of you starting
school and I'm so sorry Henry your dog died! My son is in your class
and loves Miss Murphy, what do you think of her”
Getting the idea
people!
Stop telling your life
story and divulging your whereabouts. For example...
Advertising you are
going on holidays (your house will be empty for 2 weeks)
Talking about your
friends and family (allows stalkers to collection information about
you and also those you love)
Anyway, that's just
three things you can do. Have a private account. Protect you and your
friends and don't be telling your life story on the internet.
John The Captain Ryan
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