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dinsdag 31 januari 2012

How to protect your online privacy settings

‘’I made a Facebook account because my friends have one’’
‘’I’m drowning in the amount of Tweets of the ones I am following’’

Does this sound familiar to you?

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube. There is no escape anymore from these websites in your daily life. Each one of these has its advantages, but more importantly, also disadvantages. The most of us are already active on Social Media. It is fun to share and stay connected to your growing network. In the meantime we are giving away so much information without realizing it. For example, people do not only know where you live, your age, your relationship status, but also where you are at the moment or which events you will be attending.
Of course there are privacy settings you can change to hide(personal) information. But how can you stop someone from posting a photo of you or how can you prevent to be mentioned in a comment?

In the following blogs that I will be posting every week, I will give updated information about changes in the online privacy settings. So if you’re interested, please follow!

Let’s end this blog with a video about Google saying: ‘We are only doing it for you’.