Avoid Social Media Security Concerns with Safe Attitude

Facebook is fumbling with security, allowing for breaches in your security, hackers are searching for password information and your frienemies are cruising your profiles for reasons to start rumors. What can you do? Well, you should know that anything you post on sites like Facebook and Flickr becomes their property. Yep, even those cute pictures of you in the shower with the dogs.

Here’s an idea: don’t put anything into these sites you wouldn’t want your mother to see. Pretend that everything you put into Facebook is public. How does that change your perspective?

Consider these companies like a bank, except for your personality, and without reliable security. I don’t trust them with sensitive information and neither should you. All they have to do is have one policy change and your whole profile could be sold off piecemeal to marketing companies who will know everything about you from your favorite fast food joint to your political views. If you haven’t noticed Facebook already targets ads to the content on your page that YOU put there.

Keep it casual, imagine it’s all public, assume they will eventually sell you out (this is America, after all) and know that it’s not your information anymore, it’s Facebook’s.