Category: Privacy

FaceBook is not private
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FaceBook is not private

A short time after I learned about FaceBook, I moved as far away from it as I could. As with most of the world, it contains huge piles of garbage. I have a clean, healthy, quiet, and PRIVATE life. Yes, from friends I have in the 20 contries where I worked, I appreciate ability to [...]

Published by on February 8, 2013 8:59 AM
Facebook Emails
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Facebook Emails

How many friends do you have? By this I do not mean the real offline friends you have. I meant your Virtual friends, FB friends. You are not alone. I have viewed profiles with hundreds and hundreds of friends. And with Facebook being one of the most-visited sites, and the reason for hours and hours [...]

Published by on December 15, 2011 1:23 PM
Child Safety on Facebook
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Child Safety on Facebook

There are lots of social networking criticism issues like kid safety, stress around the World. Although different people from different counties can contact through social networking without any boundaries at the comfort of their favorite home and with the help of net and computer, lots of issues arise due to lack of awareness. Lovely aspects [...]

Published by on December 14, 2011 12:46 PM
Facebook and Identity
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Facebook and Identity

Almost every one now a days is aware about the practice of identity theft which is affecting not thousands in fact millions of people around the globe. And the consequences that people face after losing their identity to hackers are even worse. This rise in identity theft is not because of any single issue, instead [...]

Published by on December 12, 2011 2:34 AM
Facebook Tip of The Iceberg
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Facebook Tip of The Iceberg

Facebook is a community of 800 million and growing every minute. Close to 50% of users log into their Facebook accounts daily and connect with other members, sharing information and content, making it the largest active social networking website that has ever been. However for all the good things that we have heard, Facebook also [...]

Published by on December 5, 2011 12:30 PM
Facebook Status Updates and Comments
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Facebook Status Updates and Comments

“Here at the mall, eating.” “Just got home, having a snack.” “Sleeping…zzzz.” These and other seemingly insane status updates seem to crop up on the giant time-suck that is Facebook, one of the Internet’s most popular invention yet. Yes, Facebook does allow you to connect to your long-lost uncle’s uncle’s cousin’s son whom you don’t [...]

Published by on October 27, 2011 12:13 PM
Facebook Negative Effects
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Facebook Negative Effects

Although social networking systems offer many advantages like meeting new people across the globe and finding old pals. Facebook is one of those popular social networks. But are these advanced technological forms of communicating with people hurting the social’s skills? The obvious drawback of Facebook is that your profile is openly available to all the [...]

Published by on October 21, 2011 4:24 AM
Facebook and Privacy
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Facebook and Privacy

Being connected and in touch with everyone you know through the many social networking sites like Facebook has its own advantages. In the excitement of getting in touch with all the people you know, you forget that there are malicious people out there who would love to malign your self morale just for the sake [...]

Published by on October 14, 2011 11:57 AM
Why Quit Facebook
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Why Quit Facebook

There are plenty of reasons why quitting the famous social networking site Facebook is good for you. Facebook claims to be a one stop site where you can conveniently get in touch with people you know around the world, friends from your school, college and other people you have met over a period of your [...]

Published by on October 10, 2011 4:07 AM
Facebook Problems Today
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Facebook Problems Today

There is nothing in this world which gives us some benefit is without any flaw, for some or the other, that thing can be harmful. The world’s best creations have always showed a downside to them as well, may it be electricity or Nuclear energy, for some it is productive and for some it is [...]

Published by on October 6, 2011 5:15 AM
Effects of Facebook on Teenagers
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Effects of Facebook on Teenagers

Social networking sites, most notably Facebook have become so popular today that they are the leading words on the lips of every teenager. Facebook has more than 750 millions users today. You love to spend most of your time checking your Facebook updates, but do you know that there are many negative effects of using [...]

Published by on October 2, 2011 11:33 PM
Facebook User Information
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Facebook User Information

We give away the majority of our private information to these sites, information like email address, our home address, age, and information about our hobbies etc. And almost all of this information can easily be accessed by our friends, all unknown people who are viewing our profiles and every person linked to that very network. [...]

Published by on September 30, 2011 3:47 AM
Ilse Aigner’s Facebook Concerns
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Ilse Aigner’s Facebook Concerns

Ilse Aigner, ask her colleges to Avoid Facebook indicating Personal Information is No Longer Personal on Facebook. German Consumer Protection Minister has asked colleges to “Avoid Facebook”. Further to German Consumer Protection Minister, Ilse Aigner own concerns about Facebook we have explored more privacy issues in the article below. Facebook is a social networking site [...]

Published by on September 12, 2011 11:55 AM
Safety Concerns on Social Network
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Safety Concerns on Social Network

Psychologists believe, the credit for excitement of beginning new-fangled relationships over the Internet can be given to the ever increasing social network websites. On the other hand, in the eagerness to be converted into ‘social lifestyle’, we are most likely to pay no attention to a lot of safety issues hanging above social network websites. [...]

Published by on September 9, 2011 8:47 AM
Downsides to Facebook Networking
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Downsides to Facebook Networking

Your social network profile is your online identity. Without a doubt, you’ll try to put as much information as possible on your online social networking profile in order to be identified correctly by your friends and peers. Sadly, there is an off-putting characteristic of this feature as well as it can potentially lead you to [...]

Published by on September 1, 2011 11:33 AM
Facebook’s Pretend Friends
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Facebook’s Pretend Friends

Gone are the days when socialising meant getting in touch with each other in parties or weddings and having a chat and getting to know more about each other on the personal front. In fact times have changed so drastically, that people these days socialise on social networking sites such as Facebook, and have completely [...]

Published by on May 21, 2011 5:52 PM
How Safe Is Personal Information On Facebook?
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How Safe Is Personal Information On Facebook?

Facebook is the popular place to be in and  if you are not on Facebook, you are considered not cool. Being on Facebook has become such a popular norm that you can find just about anybody on it, all you need to know is the name and there is an endless list that provides you [...]

Published by on May 21, 2011 4:55 PM
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Facebook’s Privacy Policy Problems

Zuckerberg and crew face more and more scrutiny due to their stance on privacy. Because of the latest outcry by the public and pressure by some U.S. Congressmen, Facebook has decided to revise their privacy policy. Are you aware of Facebook’s internal policy to allow third parties to track your browsing habits? Those icons and [...]

Published by on February 18, 2011 11:36 AM
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Social Networking Without Facebook

Privacy is the prevailing and principal concern for adults using Facebook. One reads, almost daily, of some or other security breach which allows the informations users store on Facebook to be accessed by less than scrupulous organisations. The problem though it also the reason for Facebook’s popularity – to bring together everything you want to [...]

Published by on February 15, 2011 11:24 AM
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My Boss’s Facebook Invite

I really need know what to do. I am kind of in a tight spot. Here is my situation. My boss just sent me a Facebook invite and I don’t know what to do. I really don’t want to connect to him on Facebook. I don’t want my friends to know my boss and I [...]

Published by on February 8, 2011 2:53 AM
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Personal Information

I have to admit that initially we were filling out all the profile information on our Facebook account. Now we wish we have not done so because I have just read the news about information seekers who managed to download 250,000 Facebook profile information for a dating site without getting any permissions. Now I am [...]

Published by on February 6, 2011 4:57 AM