They all connect everyone through the Internet quicker and easier than you would normally. On all of these you have a profile. Your profile is the place where you can put pictures, information, and details about yourself and your life with the option for your friends and everyone else to comment on everything.
With all these options there becomes a lot of room to “creep” on people. Random people can find things on your profile that you did not even know you had on there. There are privacy settings that you can use to keep unwanted people off your profile, but is it enough. There are some very smart people out there that can crack anything on the Internet, what makes people think a flick of a switch these people cannot get through.
Another thing that happens with these social networks is once something is posted it is always forever on the Internet, even if you try to delete it. Every picture, every status, every address, every everything will forever be floating on the Internet for a lot of people to access. Scary huh?
Here are some cases where things went extremely wrong.
Facebook bullying:
Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, Linked In, etc.
In this article a young girl resorted to plastic surgery after being bullied on facebook. This thirteen year old girl got plastic surgery to correct her nose because she had broken it twice. Her "friends" on facebook teased her to the point that she decided that plastic surgery was the best option.
Facebook Stalkers:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8502426/Teenage-girl-dead-after-posting-stalker-fears-on-Facebook.html
Within this article it is stated that a teenage girl was found dead 3 days after telling her friends she had a facebook stalker. When she told her friends about this facebook stalker she told them that this person called her and said that he knew everything about her. These facebook stalkers found her and committed murder.
Scary things on myspace:
http://voices.yahoo.com/article/159689/the-danger-myspace-facebook-children-221080.html
In this article, it states all the scary things that can happen on myspace.
These are just some of the many cases of people on the Internet misusing the information naive people put up about themselves.
Some things people should keep off of any of these social networks include:
1. Personal conversations
2. Social plans
3. Linking sites
4. Company information
5. Photos of your kids
6. Your address and/or phone number
7. Personal financial information
8. Your password
9. Password hints
10. And obviously anything you do want to share with the Whole Wide World. (get it WWW.)
(this information was received from http://blog.hycus.com/2011/08/10/top-10-things-you-should-not-share-on-social-networks/)
So please people do not put anything you do not want others knowing on facebook, myspace, linkedin, and any other social network. There a lot of scary scary people out there that could do very scary things if we give them the correct information. Another reason to keep things off facebook you do not want any one to see is job security. but that is another subject for another time!
Have a great day!
I still love the pats no matter what happens!
Kimberly*elaine
