What's on your mind?
Facebook is a website created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, back he was in Harvard to help him interact with students on campus (NY Times). Now, this social site has reached over 800 million users, from everyone to celebrities, normal people like you and I, and I bet even some of our grandparents have it. But who's to say that this site is safe? Truth is, it isn't. It has to be one of the most dangerous site out there, according to me. There are too many things that make it dangerous, for example :
- With the new layout, stalking is made simple, easy and it's only a click away;
- Even with all the privacy settings, they could still view your info section;
- Any one would be able to view your pictures/videos, which is kinda creepy if it's someone you don't know;
- There are people that can hack into your account, and change a lot of things, add and delete stuff, talk really mean to your friends, etc, etc;
- Any stalker or serial killer could be viewing your page, and if you are an avid facebooker that updates everything every five seconds, that person could know where you are;
- For teens : if you were at a party, and didn't want your parents to know, but someone took a picture of you, tagged you in it and your parents saw it, then you're probably grounded;
- And last but not least: It's a great way to get distracted with all the new news feeds, comments, liking things, secretly hating someone, updating statuses every 5 minutes that you want to punch the person, you know, the usual.
- When you go out, don't announce it to the world. You could simply update a status when you come back saying that you had a blast or something.
- Change the privacy settings on your profile to make it that only your friends, and not friends or friends, could view your pictures.
- Don't post many embarrassing pictures, cause you never know who could be seeing it, for example, a normal stalker, or even worse : your boss and/or parents.
- Make sure that your phone number is hidden, and that if someone wants it, they could message you for it.
- When accepting someone who's profile picture is a car, and you only have 1 mutual friend, it's better not to accept.
| Well, hope these tips and advice help. |
7 comments:
That picture makes me laugh! I've honestly never really thought about serial killers using Facebook, I mean it makes sense but most people really aren't thinking about that when they're using the site. That's really creepy to think about.
well, you never know. I was once watching Criminal Minds, and in one the episodes, the serial killer would use facebook, and other social sites to stalk and kill his victims. These days, people are just crazy.
I found the picture to be extremely funny since nowadays that's exactly how people think... that stalking through a computer screen is socially acceptable. You're definitely right about the dangers of Facebook since it has become so easy to know what everyone's up to and sometimes you don't even have to befriend that person on Facebook to gain that information which is scary. Your advice on how to stay on the safe side when it comes to Facebook is great and I'm looking forward to your next blog.
Ha this is funny, very true though. People go to far, announcing everything they do like people actually care. Everyone's guilty of doing these things, even me, but doing it too much is very dangerous! We have to be careful because of all the a**holes in the world, which is incredicbly unfortunate. Sometimes people just want a little attention, not to be attacked :P
Haha! I know you are serious but they way you wrote some of the tips made me laugh out loud. So, did the picture. I don't update my status so much but I will admit if I ever get bored I'll check my newsfeed. I try to be cautioness with my Facebook account but you never know what got out with technology now a days.
I do believe that some people dont have any discretion on facebook, as to picture, statuses, and other, and it only gets worse with tweeter. I think people aught to take more attention to what they say or friend. I have one friend that has 600 ppl and growing on her facebook! i bet if she were into a bind and asked them for help none would say yes! just because you're friends with them on facebook doesint mean they're actually your friend.
HAHAHA that picture is hilarious. Personally I don't think facebook is that dangerous. You have plenty of privacy settings you can set for your profile. No matter how many notifications you get, it doesn't matter, just admit that you love the attention. So it's like people want to be facebook creeped. Haha.
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