Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Facebook and its Issues

          I read the article "5 Ways to Secure Your Facebook Profile in a Post-Timeline World" by Logan Kugler on February 7, 2012.  The article talks about how easy it is for anyone to access peoples personal information on sites like Facebook.  The article shows you five ways you should check or update you're settings with the new timeline feature they recently put on the website.  I chose this article because you can find my profile on this site, but I do realize that what is put on this site can be found by pretty much anyone and can hinder your job opportunities in the future.  After reading this article I did check my Facebook settings to be sure they are set at what I want them set at.  To sum up the article, its letting users know to secure themselves on Facebook and it introduces the new aspects to Facebook including the new timeline feature.  

          The article had an in depth description for 5 ways to secure your profile.  The first way is to limit your connections or to only allow some people find and add you and look at your pictures.  The next way is to tailor your tags, in other words don't allow just anyone to tag you in your pictures.  The third way is to rein app permission, which makes other people get permission before sending you an app.  The fourth way in securing your profile is to stop others from taking your information with them, this prevents other people from sharing your information through other apps and websites.  The fifth and final step is to reduce your social footprint on Facebook, which means to limit posts to only a certain number of friends.  The article has a much further in depth description with a how to guide to follow in changing these settings.  You can visit the article here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223862/5_ways_to_secure_your_Facebook_profile_in_a_post_Timeline_world?taxonomyId=84&pageNumber=2
If you need further convincing to edit your settings check this article out
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/17-high-school-students-facebook-photos-used-on-porn-site_n_1279523.html


   

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Wesley speaking, and I chose to comment on this article because I read the same article, and did my blog on the same thing, and all the other options weren't that interesting to me. Anyways I think it is very creepy how just anybody can get in your life in a way from the little information that you put on facebook. I still have my facebook I just made everything on it private because when I looked from the steps it told us to do all of mine was set to public so that must mean everybody must have got my info. But yea this was a very interesting article.

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