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Do you know your personal information safe on facebook?

Facebook is the fastest growing social networking site in the world today with up to 250,000 new users being added every day. But sharing information  on Facebook has lots of risks including your name which can be accessed by others and your profile can be viewed. Anyone can get valuable information and private photos from your profile — ultimately getting you in big trouble.

A recent announcement that a private consulting firm has data-mined the names and URLs of over 170 million profiled Facebook users has brought additional questions to the forefront regarding the internal security of the world’s most popular social networking site.

personal information safe on facebookConsultant Ron Bowes from Skull Security scanned more than one third of Facebook’s 500 million users and uploaded the data into a torrent file, a type of meta-data that allows for person-to-person filesharing. Torrents have come under scrutiny and media attention because of their tendency to be used to swap illegal data and because overall, they are unregulated.

Facebook responded to the concern and said that no profiles were illegally hacked and that the information was not unlawfully obtained. All of the information scanned off of Facebook was available for any Facebook user and none of the information that any individual user marked as private was released.

Nevertheless, this is the first time that such an enormous data load was harvested from Facebook, and it has raised questions about the how this information is going to be used.

Users are upset because at the very least, they anticipate they will be exposed to a greater number of spam emails, advertisements and phishing attempts, some of which may be malicious in nature or attempting to pirate sensitive information for unlawful purposes.

Facebook’s own privacy policy warns users that “…such information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the internet (including people not logged into Facebook), be indexed by third-party search engines, and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others without privacy limitations.”

This caveat does little as far as providing relief and does not explain why Facebook would allow this to occur. Public records show that as of the writing of this article, over 15,000 people or businesses have already either downloaded the file directly or have “seeded” it by downloading the torrent and uploading it to another file.

What was exposed?

The amount of information gleaned depends on each individual’s user settings. In general anyone can Google a person and see if they are on Facebook. User’s names, email addresses, telephone numbers, a sampling of their ‘friends’ and a host of information regarding their ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ are oftentimes made public by each user.

A growing number of businesses and news media outlets are using Facebook to build their advertising and draw in potential new customers. In turn, businesses analyze the demographic data of those who have joined their site. Since almost all businesses allow their site to be open to any non-Facebook user, the amount of information scanned is substantial.

How do I know if my information was farmed in the data pull?

PC.world.com gives the following helpful instructions:

“From your Facebook profile dashboard, click on ‘Account’ in the upper right hand side of your dashboard. Select ‘Privacy Settings,’ and then on the next page under ‘Basic Directory Information’ click on ‘View Settings.’ If the first listing called Search for me on Facebook is set to Everyone, then chances are your name and profile URL are in the torrent file.”

You should also check to see if you have enabled the public search option. Go to your Privacy Setting page and click on Edit Settings. Un-check the box in order to disallow the public to search your profile. This will also prevent external search engines like Google and Bing from indexing your profile.

How can I protect myself?

Simply stated, reconsider what you want others to see or know. The fact that you are on Facebook and the URL of your profile are not as sensitive as say, your personal contact information, your address, your place of employment, your age and birth date or email addresses.

You have control over the amount of information that you want others to see, but you must make good use of the privacy settings to restrict this information; Facebook does not establish these guidelines for you by default.

You may choose to allow information to be seen by just your ‘friends’ or you can allow additional viewings by those who are ‘friends of friends.’

Of course, the best way to protect your identity from being stolen or used unlawfully is not to register yourself on social networking sites to begin with. The risks are inherent, and the consequences may be severe. Facebook certainly has tied the world together, but many have found it to be an enormous time waster, as well as a seedbed of potential unwanted or even dangerous “relationships.”

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Best 10 Facebook tips

Below is a listing of our best 10 tips for the popular social networking website Facebook.

It quickly gets annoying seeing some users posts, game invites, polls, etc. Hovering your mouse to the right of the post and clicking the Hide button as shown below can hide any post. Once this button is pressed you’ll be prompted with the option to hide that user or in the case of a Facebook application the option to hide that application from ever showing up on your profile.

Hide users, games, polls, etc.

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To unhide someone or unblock an application click the Edit Options link in the bottom right corner of the news feed as shown below.

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Greasemonkey and FB Purity

Although Facebook does not allow the ability to hide friends getting new friends messages, friends becoming fans of something, and some application messages they can still be hidden with browser add-ons. If you’re running Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari we suggest installing the Facebook Purity add-on.

Update your privacy settings

Click Account in the top right corner of the Facebook window and then click Privacy settings to adjust who is capable of seeing what on your Facebook profile. We highly recommend going through all the privacy settings to verify your privacy is properly protected.

Anything that is not set to friends only or friends of friends can be seen by anyone searching on the Internet. Below is a few things we recommend for most users.

  1. Under Search in Privacy settings uncheck Public Search Results. This will prevent users from finding your account and profile picture in search results such as Google
  2. Under Application settings, make sure you’re only allowing applications you want to have access to your information. Applications that you grant rights to can have access to your Facebook profile information.

Use the Facebook top bar for navigation

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Knowing how to properly navigate is vital if you want to get the most out of Facebook. Below is a brief description of each of the available options in the top bar as shown above.

Home (facebook logo) – Clicking this logo takes you to your wall (News Feed) that shows all friends recent posts.

Friend requests – If any friend requests are waiting to be approved this icon shows a notification of how many friends are waiting for approval. This icon can also be clicked when you want to view any friend recommendations or search for friends on Facebook.

Messages – This section allows you to send and receive private messages between one or more people you’re friends with.

Notifications – Any time a friend or Facebook application creates a new post you’ll be notified in this section. Clicking this icon shows all recent notifications. If you want to change what is capable of sending you notifications including any Facebook applications or games click the See All Notifications link at the bottom and check or uncheck what you want to be notified on.

Search – Finally, the search box in Facebook can be a powerful tool that can be used to quickly find any current friends or people on Facebook. In addition searching for terms such as a company name, product, sports team, music band, etc. will find fan pages and groups that can be joined.

Modify your account notifications

Keep your e-mail and your cell phone clean by updating or eliminate Facebook notifications or keep more up-to-date by adding new notifications. Facebook notifications can be added and removed by clicking Account link in the top right corner, then Account Settings, and then clicking the Notifications tab.

Top News and Most Recent

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By default Facebook displays your wall postings in the News format, which means it only displays posts it believes are most relevant to you. These results are based on your past interaction with your friends. If you want to see every post made by all your friends that are not hidden click the Most recent link in the upper right section of your news feed as shown in the above picture example.

If you want to adjust who shows up manually click the Edit Options in the bottom right corner of your news feed.

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View High School work friends

If you’ve added your High School or previous Work locations to your profile, quickly see all classmates and co-workers on Facebook by clicking the link in your Info tab under your profile.

Quickly change profile picture

Your profile picture can be quickly changed to any other picture by visiting your profile, hovering the mouse over your current profile picture, and clicking the Change Picture link that appears in the top right corner of the picture.

Don’t post private information on friend’s walls on in comments

When you make a post on a friend’s wall or in any of their comments realize that any of their friends are going to be able to see that post. If you want for something to remain only between you and a friend send them a Facebook message instead.

Suggestions and random friend invites

As you get more friends on Facebook it will begin making friend, groups, and fan suggestions. These are suggestions made by Facebook and not your friends. Unless these are something you’re interested in they can be ignored.

This same rule can be applied to people who may want to be your friend that you don’t know. If you don’t know someone don’t accept his or her friend invite. Once someone becomes your friend they’ll have access to any information your friends are capable of seeing.

Tag your Facebook friends in your photos

Always make sure to tag any of your Facebook friends that are in pictures you upload. However, never tag someone who is not in the picture. When someone is tagged in a photo that picture is automatically added to that persons profile and is a great way to share pictures with all friends.

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