Privacy in Social Networking Sites
Admittedly saying social networking technology is a fad in the web today. More and more social networking sites such as myspace, facebook, multiply, friendster are coming. You are not even “in” today if you don’t have a twitter. Even I myself has been a member several of these. But how knowledgeable are members of these sites about their privacy? Not so much, I guess. Spams and impersonators to seek information from someone has been hounding these sites.
When using these, it is extremely important to be knowledgeable of your privacy settings. First step is to be cautious on who to accept to your network list. Setting it for it to be only viewable by your network might help. But third or fourth degree network can also sometimes view.
In lest of information that might be stolen, it is adviseable only to give personal information at certain level. It shall not reach to a point where it encourages online theft to hack your account such as exposing security questions. Lastly, but not the least, it is most notable for social network members not to have the same password as your personal email and other important areas online.
And speaking more of these social networking sites, a new social networking site is up and is called Moli (visit Moli.com). It allows members to create multiple profiles in one account. But the site might not do good for the individual that does not walk and talk.
Personally, if you’d like one to view your profile, I recommend linkedin. It is a business social networking site with a professional look without those smileys and gift giving features. You may view my linked in profile here.
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it is important to take in to consideration the confidential information such as credit cards, security questions, etc. That this information must not be exposed publicly.