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7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by Chizin(m): 1:26pm On May 14, 2010
Using a Weak Password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home

That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

Letting Search Engines Find You

To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised
Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents' regular comings and goings.

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption

Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls

For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by AjanleKoko: 6:20pm On May 14, 2010
Nice one.
Moving this to the Internet Section.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by koseepaaro(m): 11:04pm On May 14, 2010
Thanks a lot.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by 4llerbuntu(m): 2:55am On May 15, 2010
@ poster good for you, next time quote the source, this is blatant plagiarism, this was on yahoo news yesterday.

its only best practice if u add a link or quote the source and stop intellectual fraud. thats how its done normally.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by DualCore1: 8:15am On May 15, 2010
This is all BS  tongue

1 Thing you should not do on Facebook
Signing up
Do not sign up for an account on Facebook. The voices of all family and friends are just a phone call away. The images of all family and friends are just an MMS away. You dont need to mortgage your privacy for Facebook.

©2010 Sawyerr Ken | All Rights Reserved | The above statement has been protected under copyright laws. Failure to abide by them is punishable by death.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by Mobinga: 8:21am On May 15, 2010
Dual Core:

This is all BS tongue

1 Thing you should not do on Facebook
Signing up
Do not sign up for an account on Facebook. The voices of all family and friends are just a phone call away. The images of all family and friends are just an MMS away. You dont need to mortgage your privacy for Facebook.

©2010 Sawyerr Ken | All Rights Reserved | The above statement has been protected under copyright laws. Failure to abide by them is punishable by death.
That means you're dead too. Hehe
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by DualCore1: 8:22am On May 15, 2010
Mobinga:

That means you're dead too. Hehe
No I'm not. Its my statement. Let me know if you see this anywhere on the net, I will personally shoot myself.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by engrhamid(m): 5:30pm On May 15, 2010
Dual Core:

No I'm not. Its my statement. Let me know if you see this anywhere on the net, I will personally shoot myself.
omg! L1kmh
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by nlemonwuA: 7:49pm On Jun 06, 2010
thank for your info thats good
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by dablissy(m): 3:11am On Jun 13, 2010
i have a problem on my facebook.it was reported to me that my account was accessed in another location.now am paying for it now.they say there had been phlising scam i dont know wat that means.someone explain.
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by sutoboy(m): 1:03am On Jun 15, 2010
nice one
Re: 7 Things You Should Not Do On Facebook by 1stknight(m): 8:46pm On Jun 15, 2010
Chizin:

Using a Weak Password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home

That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

Letting Search Engines Find You

To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised
Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents' regular comings and goings.

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption

Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls

For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.


d last 1 is easy 2 do, infact its d surest, it is called reverting

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