Social Media Privacy

I don’t think we can expect to have privacy if we use social media. Even though we might privatise all of our social media settings. For instance when Facebook updates it website all your privacy settings can reset them self to share all of our pictures, status updates, wall posts etc. This goes to show how social media ‘privacy’ settings are really monitored by social media companies. Although we think our settings are all on private it doesn’t mean that no body can access our information. When we sign up to social media sites during the registration we all tick the ‘I agree to the terms and conditions’ box which has pages and pages of information which most if not all of us do not read. In the terms and conditions it will most likely state that third parties will be sold this information. So if you think you’re private you certainly are not. When I manage my privacy in particularly Facebook I do ensure that my privacy setting are only limited to my friends, however you need to be smart with what you post online. I do not show where I live or where I work because I think that is extremely personal information. I also am weary of the pages I like and what I post on my news feed or the wall of my friends.

Facebook makes it impossible to be 100% private.