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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
I find it interesting that so many are paranoid about Facebook and yet have no problem posting personal stuff on various forums, such as this one.
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The owners of this forum don't try to connect my identity to my other activities online, nor do they attempt to push ads at me based on my activity here.
My identity here doesn't connect to my bank account, my phone number, my employment history, my address, nor my education history. It doesn't even give a good representation of my reading habits--there's no checklist of books or genres to be downloaded; someone who wants to learn what books I like would have to read many individual forum posts.
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Or that using Facebook must be an all or nothing proposition. Just because one uses FB doesn't mean they must post every piece of information about themselves...
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Well, no, but to be useful to connect with friends, you have to post personal information that I'm not comfortable with strangers--especially strangers who are shoving ads at me--having.
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Having said that, regardless of whether anyone uses Facebook or any other social media, never, never, NEVER trust their privacy policies! ALWAYS assume that anything you post will be seen by everybody.
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This, yes. Never post anything online you're not willing to have seen by:
- Your employer,
- Your mother,
- The New York Times.
Not that you'd be *happy* with any or all of those seeing your posts, but if there's anything you absolutely can't handle any of those three seeing,
don't post it online. Even privately... sometimes, security settings go off; private posts get accidentally re-set to public when companies restart their servers, or emails get forwarded to the wrong person.