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Facebook has become a social media users in the world and into the Google database. It is therefore advised not to post something that they do not need to Facebook.
Make sure you are setting the privacy settings correctly so that you feel more secure and comfortable when interacting and networking with friends on Facebook. But the thing is, your account may have been hacked friends when they install some malicious applications.
This is worse, there are irresponsible people who use their account because they forgot to log out. For your safety and your family, it is better not to post important information to Facebook.
Here are 5 of information that should be removed or should not be posted to Facebook and other social media.
Your date of birth and family
You must be happy when getting birthday greetings from friends on Facebook. Surely it makes you impressed to learn that many people who remember and quite concerned with the day of your birth.
Citing page About Technology, Tuesday (12/09/2014), the problem is that it provides opportunities for hackers to steal your personal identity. It is better not to include the date of birth. However, if it is necessary, simply put your birth year alone.
Relationship Status
Cybersecurity experts advise to Internet users not to include the status of relationships in their social media accounts. Because, it allows stalker find out if you have a partner or not.
If you change your relationship status to `single`, it gives the green light for the stalker stalking you. It also allows them to know that you may be alone in the house.
Your presence information
There are many people who like the location tagging feature on Facebook that allows them to let people know where they are. The problem is that you've just told everyone that you are on vacation (not at home).
If you provide information on how long your vacation trip, then that would be let thieves know how much time they have to rob your house. It is recommended to not provide information on where you are. You can upload vacation pictures when you get home.
Information solitude
Many of the parents who do not want people to know that their children are alone at home. Again, please do not provide information to others that you are alone in the house, especially through Facebook.
You might think just friends see your status. But if your friends Facebook account has been hacked, other people can see your status. It would be nice to not post any status who do not want strangers to know.
Photos and names of children
9 out of 10 parents posting name and date of birth of their child to Facebook after childbirth in hospital. They even sent pictures of their children and to tag it to friends, relatives and their relatives.
This information is actually very risky because it opens up the opportunity for a malicious person to kidnap your child. To launch the action, they can use your child's name and the names of relatives and friends to build trust to the hospital.
If you want to post images of your children to Facebook, at least not to provide personally identifiable information such as full name and date of birth of children. Then the children do not tag photos to friends or relatives. (isk/dew)
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