FB, Facebook

We will discuss Facebook and privacy issues for this week's topic.

"If Facebook was a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria." Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Facebook said. He is a computer programmer and also has the distinction of being the world's youngest billionaire, which he achieved in 2008. 

Provide three main reasons why do students like to join FB??Why??

http://thesocialsponge.com/facebook-logs-700-billion-minutes-month-2/

People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. Almost every students have a FB account. Why do students like to join FB? As a student, I use facebook every day, not always to waste time. In fact, students like to join facebook as they can keep in touch with friends. Facebook allows us to connects with others easily. Through facebook, students can see what their friends did yesterday, what they are doing right now and what they are going to do on tomorrow. I have found a few of long-lost friends though facebook. Besides that, students like to join facebook because they take it as entertainment. Facebook allows its users to share the entertainment and information choices in their lives. Students spend their time on their facebook homepage which is full with musics, photos, videos, statuses and so on. Students often kill time by entertain themselves with facebook online games. Moreover, students like to join facebook as they could get information from facebook. For instance, for those students whom seldom read newpaper, they would never know what's happening and what's going on. Therefore, facebook is the place that where they get the information from.

What are the three most dangerous consequences of revealing too much personal information on FB??

Safety

Nowadays people like to share everything of their life with others people. Let’s say, they tend to post their private information which including their home address, mobile number or family members on their Facebook account for getting more new friends from other place. But they don’t realize that they had put their personal safety at risk. Predator may use information provided about a person’s birthday, interests or hobbies to impersonate them especially kids or teen since they are too small to recognize whether who know them with malicious purpose.

Eye of 'Spy'

There is very dangerous for too much personal information on FB, if there is a “Spy” always looking at you at spying what are you going to do, where are you right now, and everything you had uploading up to your profile. If they want to kidnap you or whatever they can get the information from your FB then you going to get trouble soon. 

Identity theft

Imagine your life, which you’ve been living in since the day you were born being stolen, you have no Identity, no actual certificate of your life. You are a stranger. Hackers can just replace you in your life, be you for a day, a week, a month even up to years. That’s how dangerous the world we live in nowadays. With the internet so freely accessible, everyone can just be anyone. Facebook is like a platform for people to share everything of their life, we sometime share too much and forget to keep our privacy in check.

List & discuss three ways your privacy may be exposed on FB.

Firstly, when you check in some places, somebody can trace you easily. They know where you are. Then, some people will post their phone numbers and addresses on their facebook, it will also expose their privacy. Lastly, some people connect their facebook with their bank account to purchase some online stuffs, so, if the somebody hack to his PC, it will expose his account and password.

Provide three effective practices/ ways to protect your privacy on FB

1. Don’t press the sharing button too much 

If you want to share something on facebook, before we share something, we can customize the settings and set a certain type of content to be visible to the people on some of yourlist, and invisible to other. 

2. Checking in to places
Actually, facebook has setting under sharing on facebook often goes unnoticed, and it can be very important, as it lets your friends check you in to place. So, it's better if you change your setting of privacy for sharing your current location. Having someone else telling the world where u are can be unpleasant and even dangerous in some cases. If you want to avoid it, disable this feature.

3. Use the ‘instant personalization'

We’ve covered this setting in-depth before. Essentially, it lets 3rd-party websites personalize your experience, which can be nice, but it also allows access to your personal data. You can opt-out of instant personalization on individual 3rd-party websites, such as Pandora, simply by clicking on “No Thanks” when asked about it. However, on Facebook you can completely disable it by leaving the checkbox before “Enable instant personalization on partner websites” unchecked.

Thanks for your time.

Writer and Editor of this week - Co Shin and Suslin