Publish your posts, er, publically<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s wrong with it:<\/p>\n
Anyone can read it \u2015 your friend, your mom, your kids, your boss, your ex, your recruiting agent, plus multiple marketing firms and someone planning online fraud<\/a>. We typically consider FB posts as some modern form of storytelling for a small audience, e.g. friends at the bar or relatives in the living room. When your post is public, you should imagine something else: crying out loud at the town square, nothing less. Someone may accidentally, or intentionally, misinterpret your words and repeat them to person important to you. Or just use your words to troll you or pull a prank. Or perform an identity theft<\/a>. Or anything else; the list is infinite. This is very real \u2015 cases when imprudent social media posts were shared and cost someone a career are numerous.<\/p>\n What to do:<\/p>\n Fortify your Facebook account<\/a> so that most posts will be shared to \u201cFriends only\u201d or \u201cFriends of friends\u201d. You can easily override this policy for a specific post if you really want to share something to all 1+bn Facebook inhabitants.\u00a0 Pay particular attention to the audience you\u2019re sharing with when you publish photos.<\/p> You may think you #share only with a few friends, but in reality it\u2019s more like crying out loud at the town square #Facebook<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n What\u2019s wrong with it:<\/p>\n You probably have many private galleries and messages on Facebook and you definitely don\u2019t want others to see them. Even more importantly, most people use Facebook to login to other sites and online services. If someone hacks to your FB account, all these services are compromised as well.<\/p>\n What to do:<\/p>\n Select strong, secure password<\/a> to your FB account. Even better, enable two-factor authentication<\/a> to protect yourself and your data. And don\u2019t use your Facebook password with any other service, make it unique.<\/p>\n What\u2019s wrong with it:<\/p>\n It helps people to track your whereabouts and figure out where you live and work. This may be especially dangerous for kids and teenagers. In addition, even when you do something innocent like checking into a restaurant or resort, it clearly indicates that you\u2019re not at home, which may be very valuable for robbers.<\/p>\n What to do:<\/p>\n Disable geo-tagging (embedding location) in photos you publish. Don\u2019t use Facebook check-ins at all or set up a very small, tightly controlled list of people able to see your check-ins. Stranger-danger, remember?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s wrong with it:<\/p>\n You\u2019ve probably gone through this multiple times. Someone wants to add you as a friend, but you barely know this person. Or maybe you don\u2019t know him\/her at all, but you have ten friends in common. You press \u201cAccept\u201d just to be polite. This is very, very wrong. First of all, by being your \u201cfriend\u201d this unknown person gets access to your information published in \u201cfriend only\u201d mode, and may use it for who-knows-what purpose. Moreover, you compromise your friends\u2019 security as well since many people use \u201cfriends of friends\u201d publishing mode. Their status updates, check-ins, and photos become accessible to this person as well. Also, this stranger may send messages (maybe with spam and malicious links) and friend even more people as your friendship increases this persons\u2019 authority.<\/p>\n What to do:<\/p>\n Friend only people you know personally and people you know well.\u00a0 You may want to run a special security analysis of your personal network on Facebook<\/a>. This will highlight all kinds of strange behavior between people you friended. It\u2019s called Friend or Foe<\/a> for a reason.<\/p>\nSelect insecure password<\/h2>\n
Share your location<\/h2>\n
Friend non-friends<\/h2>\n
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