5 ways to secure your Facebook profile

In the article, "In the article, "5 ways to secure your Facebook profile in a post-Timeline world- Computerworld", the author Logan Kugler talks about privacy settings and how Facebook is changing peoples profiles to a timeline structure where anyone can visit any of your past photos, statuses, and/or anything involved with your past Facebook settings. Though this is an interesting structure, like the Kugler says privacy is an issue. Almost all internet sites are becoming accessible to other people. The new timeline structure has five privacy settings which includes, who can look up your timeline by name or contact info, who can send you friend requests, who can send you Facebook messages, who can post on your timeline, and who can see posts by others on your timeline. All of these are very good settings, but there could be more to help with your privacy settings. Other aspects that Kugler reaches are how you can change your settings. People lie about their settings all the time, you should have to be able to tell the truth, but all of your information shouldn't be viewable unless you are a friend with the person. Some people on Facebook just accept everyones friend requests, there should be like a messaging system to approve this friendship instead of someone just clicking accept or decline.  My theory on Facebook is that no matter what Facebook does with your privacy settings there is still going to be someone that can find out your information through Facebook. That is something people are going to have to deal with. No matter how private people can still possibly know one of your friends on Facebook and they'll let them see someones information. Also there are people out there that can hack into peoples information making it so they can find your information. Though this may not be true, I honestly and strongly think that the government can look into any of your information no matter how much you set your privacy settings. Another area on Facebook that Kugler talks about is applications on Facebook. If you don't want people to see your information then you just click on "Remove" on who has permission to see your applications.