Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Your Facebook Profile Photo: The Do’s and Don’ts
Your profile photo is one of the few things on Facebook that you can not make private. Even if you check and it says it is only visible to friends, that thumbnail is still visible to anyone stalking looking at your profile. And...
Avoiding Your Facebook Birthday
Having nearly 1,000 friends, it is rare when a day goes by that I am not alerted to the fact that someone I barely know is celebrating their birthday. I have taken the stance that unless I knew it was someone’s birthday without...
Using LinkedIn to “Reverse Stalk” Your Network
A lot of time and energy has been put in to developing applications and tools that help users know who is looking at them and their various profiles online. Of course, we all love the idea of knowing who is checking us out, I mean,...
Improving Privacy on Facebook
There are plenty of strategies for keeping your Facebook private and away from prying eyes, but here are a few simple tips to keep your privacy in check.
1. Reject friend requests: The easiest way to maintain your privacy is...
Friending the Boss on Facebook
Should you “friend” your boss on Facebook?
Simply answered “NO!” and here is why.
It is just as awkward for a boss to get a friend request from their direct report as it is when people get friend requests...
Managing Your Privacy
In my previous post I talked about how privacy was a modern creation, and that we should embrace the virtual “village” that social media creates. One of my readers (Tom Hume – check out his blog) pointed out that...
Privacy – A Modern Invention?
Photo by Alan Cleaver
A lot of people (especially people older than me) seem to talk a lot about privacy when they talk about social media. They ask who can see what, and question why it is necessary to be on LinkedIn, Facebook,...
To Stalk or Not to Stalk
As a single woman who also happens to have mastered online stalking research I am often confronted with this question when I start dating someone new. While part of me is innately curious, there is another part of me that doesn’t...
