Facebook usage is very common nowadays. Some use it as a medium of socialization. Some use it as a business platform and networking. Some use it for the purpose of finding new virtual friends and re-connecting with old friends.
The concept of Facebook that allows its users to post their current status (which sometimes can be extremely personal), the food they eat, places they go, friends they hang out with, exposed its users into some kind danger.
We may want to share few things with some friends, and keep away the same information from other friends. Well, the reason to this scenario is we may have several hundreds friend in our friends list, but the one that matters to us would only be a few. Hence the need to filter what information should be available to particular friends. I am sure that as a user, we may want to protect our privacy as an individual.
To cater to the above need, Facebook actually provides customization preferences, in which users can categorized their friends according to several groups. Using this application, we would be able to protect our privacy by allowing only selected people in selected groups to view our activities.
The only problem to this is, even though you may have set your privacy mode, Facebook tend to change its features rather frequently, which may affect your privacy mode setting. This will make our profile be available and exposed to other Facebook users, who may not even be our friends! And the worst part is you may not realize that your profile can be viewed by them.
In the recent case, I could clearly read the status wrote by a friend of my friend, who is not even a friend to me. This friend of my friend, may not even realize that her status is readable to other users. This is an absolute breach of privacy conduct! As a facebook user, I am very concern about the privacy of my profile, and luckily there are ways on how we can educate ourselves so that our privacy will be protected.
As a Facebook user, we must be readily informed on any changes that is happening to the security set up and features of Facebook. One of the ways to be equipped of such knowledge is to subscribe (or click "Like") to the 5 official Facebook groups. These group will feed you the latest news on any changes happening in the Facebook. The 5 official Facebook groups are:-
If you click the Like button on this page, you will receive update on how to protect your information both on and off Facebook.
This group also offers several security resources and tips on keeping your account safe.
This page will provide you information on how to control your privacy.
The Facebook Mobile page shares the latest tips and tricks for using Facebook on your mobile phone. We can see updates when a new version is available for download, notes on upgrades and more.
When the company becomes aware of bugs and other issues on the site, this page will update you. Among the issues include the scheduled downtime for maintenance, trouble accessing site fetures such as secure browsing or error messages.
5) Facebook
The Facebook official page provides a general overview of new products, announcements and stories on how people are using Facebook. You may discover a lot of inspiring and motivating stories on how people use Facebook to improve their life.
So, there you go all Facebook users! If you are very concern about your privacy, kindly click these 5 official Facebook groups and be properly informed on any changes in the features and security set up of the sites. By doing these, hopefully we can protect ourselves from any dangerous unknown individual out there.
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