Facebook is easily the most popular Internet social network in the world. It is a great way to find old friends and classmates, or keep up with current ones. It’s fantastic for keeping in touch with relatives and sharing pictures. Best of all, it’s free – but there are dangerous sides of Facebook that you may or may not know about. Here are our top 10 things you should keep in mind:
#10 – You should know how to adjust your security settings and limit what non-friends can see. This is actually our most important tip and we wanted to list it first. No one wants the wrong type of people to be looking at pictures of their children. You should also check these settings from time to time – Facebook has done some global changes in the past that changed our settings.
#9 – Kids can lie about their age to sign up for an account which can expose them to child predators.
#8 – Do not join any fan page or group that requires you to enter any kind of personal information, all of these are scams.
#7 – Facebook can occupy/waste a tremendous amount of your time with quizzes, applications, games, or just browsing profiles. It has become an incredible problem for businesses, and many of them block the website (only to have Facebook addicts use their phones to access the site which wastes even more time because it is harder to type).
#6 – Be aware of scams through Facebook chat. For example: somebody could have stolen your friend’s password and asks you for money pretending to be them. (* Part II in this series recaps an actual security problem with chat that was fixed in April)
#5 – Your FB data may be accessible through other routes, like Google. It’s amazing what shows up on Google sometimes. It is also amazing how many employers now use Facebook to review job candidates. That’s another good reason why you should know how to adjust your security settings and limit what non-friends or employers can see; like those Spring Break pictures from Cabo.
#4 – Facebook doesn’t guarantee your privacy. Its own third-party contractors might misuse your information.
#3 – Facebook is not responsible for the security of third-party applications. A malicious application developer could break through Facebook’s security protocols and expose your info. My Space (another other large social network) suffers greatly from this abuse.
#2 – Anything you publish on Facebook is never deleted off of their server even if you delete it in your account.
#1 – Do not fall for the “password reset” email! This mass spam/virus attack comes out about every 3 months. The last one came out in March, 2010 and one of our clients opened the attachment. The virus it contained was incredibly nasty, but luckily we had a tool that easily fixed his PC.
Please do not put anything on Facebook without thinking about it. Once it’s on internet, there are always ways for someone to find it. Software Knowledge gets questions frequently from clients on how to use Facebook. We will recap a few of their main issues in the next article. Please use our Contact Us page if you have a question you’d like us to cover. We would love to hear from you.
PP / SK – May 2010
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