Knowledge is power. There’s no better way to put it in this information age of ours. In our highly digitize world, it’s easy for anyone to gather information about you if you’re using some form of technology. In fact, the more you put technology as part of your life, the easier it is to gather intelligence about you.
Contrary to popular beliefs, these people do not even have to resort to illegal means to do that. What you say or do online in the comfort of your desktop, laptop or mobile devices can easily seeped out in the public domain of the internet. This is especially true when it comes to social networking sites like Facebook.
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Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has more than 600 million active users, making it the fastest-growing and biggest social networking site by far. Millions and millions of people log in to it every day, readily updating their statuses and checking out updates by their friends. If you’re not on it, you might experience some form of ‘information gap’ from your peers who swear by Facebook to pass information. You would probably get to hear news of your friends’ engagements, vacation trips and their troubles and woes, but only later. In fact, their acquaintances might get to hear of them sooner than you could, all because your friends have added them as ‘friends’ in Facebook. If the Facebook privacy settings were in default, these posts will also be accessible to any strangers online.
It’s also funny how we all know that Facebook collects data about us and possibly share that information to third parties organizations without our consent, and yet we still don’t really let that bother us much. In other words, the things that we post on Facebook aren’t really erased even when we ‘delete’ them from our profile or wall; they are still somewhere in the cyberspace, perhaps available to be traded. Yet we continue to make our most personal posts, as if to repress such knowledge of privacy violation into our subconscious in a Freudian sense of things. Or maybe some of us think it’s a great idea after all, since we get information that is of interest and relevant to us, and not just random advertising junks.
So, these bring us to the question: Are we trading away our privacy for the sake of an awesome social network?
There are two key privacy issues at stake here. On the individual level,publicizing your life on the net, where all our posts and comments get into the open for people whom we may or may not wish them to have access to, doesn’t seem to be ideal. In the broader context, the mysterious data-mining capability of Facebook is a powerful and scary thought, especially when most of us are unaware of the actual extent. Read More....
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- Visit Facebook.com and Sign In to your Account.
- After Signing In, Click on ' Privacy Shortcut ' Button. As Shown Below :-
- After Clicking on it, a menu will appear. As Shown Below.
- Now, From the menu you can change the privacy settings.
For More Detailed Settings Click On ' See More Setting '.
And For more queries or for reading the Privacy Policy of Facebook.com Click Here
Feel Free to ask questions by commenting below.
