The Internet is getting larger everyday, and has become somewhat of a worry to people these days, with so many different social networks. Every site allows you to provide as much information about yourself as you would like. When I use these particular sites, I am very careful with what I am posting as well as the information I provide on my personal profiles, and the information I provide the site with. There are a few things that are very important to me when it comes to privacy. This includes where I live as well as my phone number. These are things that should already be known by friends and family, and I do not believe it should be flaunted on the Internet and is very unnecessary in my mind.
My Facebook provided basic information about myself. I have my Birthday and year, University, as well as my hometown. As I looked, I didn’t realize exactly what was on there. But I noticed I had included my residence in first year, as well as my old job. This information could have been a bit invasive to my privacy, however I have controlled all my privacy settings and have become more conscious of who is seeing this information as well as what information is being provided.
When I was new to Facebook, I had created a group and had not realized the privacy settings. The group was open to everyone in Facebook and I had not realized this. I can’t exactly remember the information that I shared with the group, but I do know my hotmail address as well as my name and pictures of myself were posted to this group. For a while after I started I was getting weirdoes adding me on msn and Facebook, and they would comment on my photos, and these were not very flattering compliments, just creepy. This really made me conscious of the privacy boundaries on Facebook, and encouraged me to delete the group and also change my privacy settings right away. I was oblivious to the fact that people from all around the world would have access to this information.
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