Issues On Privacy Concerns On Facebook

Logging on to Facebook nowadays without seeing awful warnings regarding privacy issues on your account may seem unlikely

. Possibly a thousand of Facebook users has declared May 31, 2010 as "Leave FaceBook Day". Privacy has long been a concern since the rise of the internet. However, if you try to google search for "Facebook Privacy Concerns" it returns 17,400,000 results while Twitter returns 15,500,000 results and LinkedIn returns 667,000 results.

To put this into perspective, Facebook is estimated to have the largest base of users of the three. And factually, the three (although often lumped together) really run on very different models and have different audiences. With that said, how concerned should you be about your FaceBook security?

Well, like anything else that's on the internet, it's not hack-proof. Even the strongest privacy policy isn't going to protect you if someone really wants to get at your information. Changes on the privacy policy on Facebook however seem to be on a craze and they don't really mind how many protests they receive, it is more like a "woops" to them. Then there is the audacity of Facebook founders to tell you that having multiple "online" identities is displaying unethical behavior? Basically he's telling you that your business account for Facebook and your personal account for facebook must be one in the same or you lack ethics. And the answer to that?

Probably not - most of us tend to like to keep our "personal" and our "business" lives (especially online) separate as much as possible. I mean seriously - do your children really care if the company that you are promoting has already reached 1000 blog readers? Do those people who follows your company really need to know that your grand daughter is a part of a cheerleading tournament? Probably the answer to both of these is "not so much".

Given the number of issues that have come around you'll find hundreds of articles including a very interesting one from the New York Times where they referred to FaceBook privacy options as "A Bewildering Tangle of Options". Unless you are willing to spend the time to verify all of these potential options, you might just want to rethink your FaceBook account. However, keep something else in mind - deleting your FaceBook account borders on amusing and is certainly confusing for most.

Words of Caution:

* Disabling your Facebook account and deleting it are NOT the same thing!

* Links shared by other users after you posted them don't get removed

* Photos that you shared who others shared don't get removed

* There are other restrictions that can still cause you privacy issues.

*If you get through the delete process and don't stay out of Facebook it negates the entire process!!

With that here are some options to help:

a 33 slide show on how to lock down your privacy at Facebook

Video instructions on how to delete your Facebook account

Make sure you read some of the information and make an informed decision.

by: Pilar Torres Wahlberg

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