There have been recent threads that touch on this topic - that of freely available info. So many people have jumped on this facebook rage and made it an integral part of their life. Yet…its like publishing a personal diary in a free and worldwide-available newspaper yeah? Say you have a friend on your friendslist. THAT friend has an enemy of yours on his/her facebook. Well…guess what? Your enemy can now see who all your friends are and contact them with a simple click.
WHen I was about 15, mydad gave me the best advice I ever heard. That is, never put anything in writing that you’d not want published inthe morning paper.
Do you facebook fans ever think of this? When you choose to accept a friendship request, do you actually take into consideration the impact that it could have on the people you already have in your friends list?
I have my relatives in my facebook and those friends who I grew up with and they know me inside out and I know them inside out.
You are right you have to be very very careful as to who you add into your facebook and what information they can access.
mamaof3, i avoided facebook for the longest time because of that.
I usually dont put anything on fb that cant be shared with my mom, my boss or my imam.
as far as enemies finding out who my friends are and contacting them, at one time i cared, now I dont, because if some friend is going to have an issue with me because of something some enemy of mine will share with them. and those friends can take a one way ticket out of my life anyways. I have no time or patience for drama of any sort.
Now there are people I know who have sent me invitations but I have not accepted because these people are not friends, acquaintances from days gone by or relatives I dont know, and I dont want to take a chance with them saying or posting stuff that will look bad, tacky etc. But bigger motivation is that these people are not close to me and are not important enough to be involved in my day to day stuff
They are free to email me and I will respond back, but they dont need to see what I am up to, where I have been, who my other pals are etc.
I just recently deleted most of the people I have no contact with. SInce I had a facebook, I almost never update my status, I don't talk about my life on FB, unlike my cousin who updates her status every 10 minutes and who had updates sent to her phone. It is a fazool waste of time.
so true MO3...u know thats what going on now a days..u are talking about only friend list...but people use your picture...and some enemy contact with our friends and tell them bad things about us..or even ask them our personal info...
I only have people i know personally and very few guppans. I put up pics and hopefully these people won't be doing anything mentioned in this thread. If they do, like X2 said, they have no place in life either PFFT. And u can make urself pretty invisible by controlling who can search n and my settings for anything is viewable is just for "friends".
oh yes...i also believe that facebook is a waste of time. One should not publish his/her personal information on internet.
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WHen I was about 15, mydad gave me the best advice I ever heard. That is, never put anything in writing that you'd not want published inthe morning paper.
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I usually accept friends request from people I know. Enemies who have pissed me off before are blocked from seeing my WHOLE profile.
i update my status frequently too, but i never add anyone I shouldn't add, especially if they have a mutual friend i distrust
You can block your profile however you want...but your entire friends list is wide open for anyone to peruse. Even if you dont have your enemies able to get to other info, they can surely get to your friends! So you need to make sure your friends feel the same way as you do about anyone you want to keep out.