Why making Facebook private won’t protect you

Prorootect

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Why making Facebook private won’t protect you topic here ..

Why making Facebook private won’t protect you : on dailycensored.com : http://dailycensored.com/2012/03/19/why-making-facebook-private-wont-protect-you/

' “After 9/11, we have a culture where some people think it’s OK for the government to be this involved in our lives, that it’s OK to turn everything over to the government. But it’s not. We still have privacy rights in this country, and we still have a Constitution.”

Unfortunately, 9/11 and the technological book occurred at, relatively, the same time. There is now a generation of Americans that know no other existence other than a world of government surveillance and ubiquitous technology in all aspects of their lives. They have grown up in a society not knowing or understanding what true privacy is. Their lives play out on Facebook, from petty squabbles to minor interactions with law enforcement. What once would be private and not held against you is now kept, in perpetuity, on the internet where anyone could potentially access it.

If you go out drinking with a friend and that friend posts a photo on Facebook, you now risk your college education and future employment. None of your social media information should ever be accessible to a potential university or employers without a warrant. The best advice would be to never have a social media account at all. If you must have one, lock it down and protect it as much as you can. Then, fight for your right to keep that information private, while being mindful that what you do online could, one day, come back to haunt you.' ..
 

McLovin

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This is true. For instance have been doing the Australian Air Force Cadets now for 6 years and we had a hick up when it came to Facebook and photos. So what happen was that they terminated that Cadet from the Squadron, because first the CO saw it then he lets everyone else know and by then they had no choice but to terminate.
 

jamescv7

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Every information could really vulnerable you cannot measure how the impact would happen. Social media can be good and bad at all.
 

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