Facebook is probably the most used social networking site on the internet. It has over 500 mllion active users and it is very useful and very good to have, if you use it right. On Facebook, you can really get to connect with long time friends or friends you see everyday. But there is also a bad side of Facebook; the ammount of personal information users extract on their profile. Some of the information is not good to out to the entire web and these are ways i protect myself from unwanted viewers.
The ways i protect myself from social networking sites like Facebook, would be to be sure that i don't expose myself too much on it. For example, i don't put my real date of birth, who my parents are, and especially my address. I, nor anyone would want some person to stalk where you live, it's so dangerous.
The ways i protect myself from social networking sites like Facebook, would be to be sure that i don't expose myself too much on it. For example, i don't put my real date of birth, who my parents are, and especially my address. I, nor anyone would want some person to stalk where you live, it's so dangerous.
Another way i protect myself on Facebook is using my privacy setting wisely. There is a privacy setting on Facebook and it lets you choose different options such as who can view certain things on your profile. An example is that on Facebook privacy setting, it asks the posts i make, who can view them? There is a drop down box and there are options like, 'Everyone, Friends of friends, Friends only, or Customize'. There are many other things Facebook asks you who can view them such as Family, Relationship status, Website, Birthday, and a few more.
Another way i protect myself is to not post many personal pictures. For me, i do post pictures of me for my profile picture, and i do post other pictures like when i go to a event with my friends, i post the pictures i took on Facebook. For example, i went to a Knights of Columbus party with my friends and we took many pictures of us doing random things and i posted them on Facebook but i didn't say where we were at. I think these kinds of photos are safe to put. What pictures i don't think is safe to put are like personal documents, birth certificate, or somewhere where it's not really good to post those pictures of Facebook. Like if you go some personal place with your family or take picture of your family members or other important things, it shouldn't be really good to post them because sometimes your family members don't like their picture posted and all. By doing this, you can protect yourself from stalkers. So those people won't know who your family is or where you are at or anything.
Therefore, it is so important to keep your personal stuff to yourself and only yourself and plus family members. You don't want annoying advetisements every page you go on, and you don't want to be pursued into clicking their links or buying any of their stuff. Also, it's important to keep you information to yourself because you don't want anyone to stalk you or for them to know more about you. You never know what they could do with the information they get from you. So it is always good to protect yourself from these social networking sites.
I completely agree with you when you mentioned all those annoying advertisements. Those ads are usually viruses which could seriously damage a computer. To protect yourself from those, for the most part, you just close them or not click them at all. It's the best way to protect yourself from unwanted viruses.
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I think that we don't need to post the locations of where our pictures have been taken. It only gives away the things we do to unwanted people. The privacy settings that we can change also allows us to protect ourselves from unwanted people, such as online predators.
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