P.Y.O.P (Protect Your Online Privacy)

With the "buzz" in Google Buzz being more of an outcry on privacy violations, I thought I should look into the topic of social media and privacy.

Beginning with Facebook, social media has has had to walk a prickly line between enabling content sharing and respecting users' privacy. Even as we share more and more with each other, there are still a lot of us users, who prefer to have control over who can gain access to things such as Friend Lists, Wall Posts and Comments. I am definitely one of them.

A recent class discussion alerted me to the fact that the security and privacy I had been naive enough to take for granted on Facebook, were not as secure as I had imagined. At the very least, it is worth looking into the privacy policy of any social media application that you use; the equivalent of reading the fine print.

Here is a useful list of ten privacy settings every Facebook user should know, published by the website, All Facebook.