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7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

Repost.  Found this very interesting to all active users of Facebook.  You might have overlook on things so here's few reminders to all of us:

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Using a Weak Password
Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end.  Instead, mix upper-and-lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.  A password should have at least eight characters.  One good technique is to insert numbers with symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": h027usEs!

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile
It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account.  If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then Edit Information.  Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls  
For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself.  Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things.  You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them.  Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.  

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption
Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions.  If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag.  If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name. 

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home
That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door.  Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip. 

Letting Search Engines Find You
To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results.  Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked. 

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised 
Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it.  If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends.  Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities.  "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," say Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center.  For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about parents' regular comings and goings. 

Oh no! Mum and Dad are on Facebook

So, would you add your parents as friends on Facebook? And if you’re a parent, would you add your son or daughter as a “friend”? Or would you rather give them their own personal online space and trust they behave responsibly? Read more...

Mom said...

Ha ha! Okay, my mom is on my list of contacts in Facebook but she didn't made that account although she's aware she have one.  Her account is for FB apps purposes...haha!! We never worry about it just in case she wants to see it cos we are all adults.

So what if I'm still in my teens?  I definitely would not add my parents on Facebook, lol.  Well, back then my parents are very strict so my case is NO way!!  If they insist, I would definitely use Privacy settings for them, hi hi.

I'm just speaking here for myself...

I strongly agree that the main objective of parents why they want their children on their list is to keep track on them.  To monitor their activities, friends, etc.  The children of course would really feel awkward about it, perhaps the friends too would feel the same.  It would be beneficial for both parents and children if they would have an understanding something like - parents should never comment on anything on their account rather relay it personally once they are home.  And that children should really have the knowledge in changing the privacy settings on Facebook :-P.  Actually, ALL should be aware about limitations on Facebook ;-).  Check your privacy settings, cos the default has flaws.  And don't forget to check the settings from time to time to be sure.  I also suggest to use creating list for contacts and use preferred settings for each created groups.  For further details on privacy settings, please click here.