If you can’t quit, Consumer Reports lists 7 things to stop doing on Facebook. Click link for a fuller discussion of each.
Using a weak password
Leaving your full birth date in your profile
Overlooking useful privacy controls
Posting your child’s name in a caption
Mentioning that you’ll be away from home
Letting search engines find you
Permitting youngsters to use Facebook unsupervised
I think this will be my last posting about Facebook. You’ve either gotten the idea — or not. I found it interesting that one of my friends on Facebook disappeared and when I emailed to ask her why, she said an employer required it — no family member could have an account.
You know, rules like “No Facebook” by employers just kill me. First of all, its none of any employer’s business what I do in my spare time. And secondly, there’s nothing that Facebook does that is all that privacy-killing, assuming you’re not an idiot.
That said, lots of people are idiots. A couple of days ago in line at a grocery store I listened to a woman (using her outdoor voice, as moms say) discuss her recurring yeast infection. People like that probably are going to release information on Facebook that they shouldn’t, but they’re going to do that no matter what media they interact with.
True enough, Tom.