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Your facebook acount settings maybe private is it really?

Posted on March 20, 2011 by nichola.smith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZrynmd7cU

Social Websites such as face book, twitter, my space allows you to create a user name and password to help keep profiles private where you the account holder is the only person that has access to the account. But in realty it is also known that once you post information on your profile it is considered no longer private because it has become part of the cyber world known as the internet.

Have you ever recalled logging into your face book account and you see links such as http://lilbituly/0sssz2 and dont know who sent it. These sites are known as fishing sites. These sites should not be clicked on because they are used by hackers to fish your password by redirecting you to a ‘look alike’ face book log in homepage that requires you to enter your user name and password.

Once the information is entered on the ‘look alike’ homepage it is sent directly to the hackers account where they can review your information with the use of your password. Shocking right? it is also known that you should never have the same password for your email and face book accounts because this only makes it easier for your information to be retrieved.

To sign up for face book and any other social site is free but the information you provide is owned by the social site. this reminds me of Josh Harris project where he said everything is free except for the videos he captures, he owns.

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Facebook = The New Josh Harris?

Posted on March 20, 2011 by NLVenosa

After watching the 2009 documentary We Live in Public in class, I’ve been trying to be more wary of my privacy settings on various social media outlets.  You could probably say I have some weird form of techie OCD when it comes to Facebook; about once a week, I check my privacy settings and friend lists (along with profile and photo album visibility regarding said lists) just to make sure everyone is seeing what I want them to see.  On this particular day of appeasing my techie OCD, I came across a strange discovery.

If you have a Facebook account, do the following and tell me you don’t feel like Mark Zuckerberg (*cough* Josh Harris *cough*) is hoarding your internet activity to use at a later time.  Go to:
Facebook > Account > Account Settings > Download Your Information (Learn More)

Granted, I wasn’t surprised that Facebook had just weaseled this option in there without any sort of warning or notification (it’s about as common as waking up and seeing your profile layout completely changed for the fifth time), but you have to admit, the idea that Facebook has every wall post, photo album, video, friend on your list, note, event listing, and message thread neatly converted into .html format and then compressed into a huge .zip file is a little strange, to say the least.

After I told Facebook that I wanted to download my information, it took almost a whole day to receive a confirmation e-mail with the link to download MY OWN INFORMATION.

Granted, although it creeped me out a little bit to see everything organized like that, I was actually relieved that this folder didn’t also include everything I had ever posted or written on other people’s profiles.  However, you know that the instant someone decides to download their information, any comment or post I had put on their profile will be saved forever for them to see.

After raising an eyebrow at Facebook for 40 minutes as I downloaded my internet life in a .zip file, I began to wonder, “What would make Facebook want to do this?”  Other than the rare occasion that eeeeeevery single server for Facebook crashes beyond repair and people lose their files forever, I have a very strange feeling that one day we’re going to have the choice (or necessity) to buy this seemingly useless collection of data.

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