How private is Facebook?

[Aaliyyah]

^lol nothing personal Che.This is just a general opinion.

 

salaam

[Che -Guevara]

^Oh good, I was about to call my entire gang to find who's bugging our beautiful Aaliyah.

[Sherban Shabeel]

lol

[rudy-Diiriye]

7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

 

Using a Weak Password

 

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

 

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

 

It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

 

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls

 

For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

 

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption

 

Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

 

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home

 

That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

 

Letting Search Engines Find You

 

To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked.

 

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised

 

Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents' regular comings and goings.

[SeeKer]

^^sounds like a full time job.....easier to delete noh?

[chubacka]

On the topic of FB, do you add ppl that you met and then forget who they are completely, esp. if they got no photos uploaded.

 

I have an invitation to meet up with some gal but i honestly cannot remember who she is.

[SeeKer]

^ You reminded me of an upcoming docu movie about a girl who sets out to meet all the people that she has on her FB.

 

Good luck on the meeting I hope she isn't a serial killer or worse a man

[chubacka]

^hehehe@ a man. I ain't going nowhere until I know who she is. Need to gather enough courage to ask who the h*ll she is.

[Blessed]

LOL. Chuba. If in doubt ask or ignore. I HATE random adders.

[Aaliyyah]

looooool chubacka..walee kursiga baan ka dhici gaadhay

 

thats downside of facebook random adds? wen i had ma fb account I honestly never added anyone that I didnt know well... I mean you meet someone once and they go do you have facebook? thats like the second question after whats ur name? give me a break..

 

also another way of avoiding random adds could be removing your pic from the profile pic. Usually people wont add you if you just some random pic there..

 

anyhoww...my advice to you..naa meelna ha aadin if you cant remember the person lol...

 

stay safe hun..

 

salaam

[Aaliyyah]

MY Space- Shannon Matesky

 

I love this girl's poem..so trueeeee!!

[chubacka]

hehehe@ stay safe. Thanks dear.

 

I must know her because she is saying lets meet with some mutual friends but I jst go no idea who SHE is.

 

(I ain't going nowhere!)

[rudy-Diiriye]

Some canoke is pissed off with facebook: check this out!

 

quitting facebook day May 31, 2010

 

http://www.quitfacebookday.com

[5]

I quit Facebook and I have to admit: I have never felt better!

 

I urge everybody to quit Facebook. The quality of life is instantly better.

 

Quit now! Call 0800-QUIT-FBOOK and get your life back - today!

[Somalina]

lol@Quit now!call 0800-QUIT-FBOOK and get your life back.