Facebook Privacy and Your Life Online
I have been thinking a lot about deleting my Facebook page and just using a special blog to update my friend and family on my life. The more I think about it, though, the more I realize that it doesn’t make much sense. At this point deleting my Facebook profile would be nothing more than a symbolic gesture because of my personal rule for posting online. It’s simple, but effective.
Never post anything online that I would be umcomfortable reading in the local paper.
That’s it. So even if Facebook decided to open my profile to the world, my privacy would not be compromised. I don’t do any of the Apps, I block every single one that shows up in my news feed hat friends use. My pictures are ones that anyone could see. I would prefer it only be friends but if the worst happened it would not be devastating to my privacy.
I see some of the things that people post on their pages – Facebook, Twitter or blogs – and I just can’t believe that they would make some of this information public. And yes, even though you can “control” the privacy settings, there is always the chance something will go wrong. After all, it is a resource connected to the internet.
If you absolutely must comment on something, or post something online as a means of stress management, it is crazy easy to invent an alter ego for those sorts of activities. Just keep the two separate in all regards and there you go. Would it be easy to connect the two I you were a private investigator? Probably. Just keep that in mind as you go along.
For all of these social networking sites, just assume that whatever you post could someday become public information and think before you hit that submit button.