Consumer Reports Magazine has even gotten into the act, sharing their list of “7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook”. Here’s their seven, with our Speedplexer reasoning:
1. Using a Weak Password
The most secure passwords have eight characters and are a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. Don’t just add a number at the beginning or end, but mix them into the middle.
2. Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile
Though you get kudos for being willing to admit your age, you also become a target for identity thieves.
3. Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls
It’s worth taking the time to check out the privacy controls regularly, because they’re always changing and adding features. Unless you are trying to promote yourself for business reasons, keep everything between you and your chosen and accepted friends.
4. Posting Your Child’s Name in a Caption
Protect your child from unwanted attention by making sure his or her name doesn’t appear anywhere, like on photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag.
5. Mentioning That You’ll Be Away From Home
It’s a challenge, since you can share your vacation fun in near real-time with internet speed, but you may also be telling the world that you’re not at home.
6. Letting Search Engines Find You
If you don’t want to be found using Google or Yahoo or Bing or the like, be sure the box for public search results isn’t checked in your privacy controls.
7. Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised
What seems innocent to them can be potentially dangerous information. Become the kid’s online friend and use your e-mail address as the contact for their account – that way you’ll receive their notifications and can monitor their activities.
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