To many this is a quick link to friends around the world, but are you at risk because of the lack of security that this site has NOT got built in.
Everyone goes on about spam emails, but we can block these out with some software or know-how. But it seems that on facebook your are putting your life in danger and not only that you are putting your kids in danger too (if you have any).
Some people on here are going to say “rubbish, you do not know what you are talking about”. So to prove my point, here is a snippet from a newspaper
“Facebook Security. It has none”.
The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, doesn’t care about our privacy.
A Facebook employee interviewed by The New York Times last week, when asked how his boss feels about privacy, responded: “He doesn’t believe in it.”
Zuckerberg believes privacy is no longer a social norm.
“People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people,” he said. “That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.”
But have we gone too far?
Not only is it incredibly egomaniacal to post photos into the ether of yourself skiing with friends (unless you are 12, in which case it becomes an ever murkier arena), it can also be dangerous.
I suppose that what I do as a columnist is to put my life on a page, but I still get a bit affronted when people I’ve never met profess to know me. I was recently the object of a stalker?s rather warped “admiration”.
He would send me cards and flowers and letters too long to read. He knew my address, which puzzled me rather. He said we had known each other in a previous life, and that he was my “soulmate”.
And then, on a Sunday morning, this man turned up at my house. I would have been less annoyed if I’d not been wearing pyjamas. He pushed his way into my kitchen; I called a friend, who rushed round. “Please leave!” she said, and then he got a bit nasty.
Finally, my stalker got into his car and left.
I know i will never join or go on this site.
If anyone thinks i have made this up. then please read more here.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/32easqd