Most Hidden dangers of Facebook
Thursday, January 17, 2013
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The last 3-4 years have
observed a tremendous positive growth ladder in the success rate of Facebook, a
social networking website. Phenomenal success of Facebook has made it the No.1
social networking website presently. In fact, it has beat Google by the maximum
number of visitor visits for one entire week. But things always go the same way
as one may think of. Both positive and negative experiences go head to head.
Facebook is also not flawless. Recently, many flaws were revealed Most of the
Facebook flaws are in it's privacy policies and accounts settings. Sharing
information may not be all that great through this social networking site. It
can happen that marketing efforts of Facebook may well lead to serious threat
to account holders' privacy policies. This article discusses about some of the
most important hidden dangers of Facebook.
Danger # 1: Sharing information with 3rd
parties
As per Facebook policy (last
updated, 2010), "When the user connects with some website or application
via Facebook, that particular site or application will have permission to
access the general information about the connected user." According to
Facebook's dictionary, "General Information" refers to information
about the user while getting full access to his/her profile, friend list, user
IDs, connections, gender, etc. In fact, the site or app can able to view any of
the information being shared using "Everyone" privacy setting. This
is also the default privacy setting. It takes only two to get connected, so
your privacy settings Because it takes two to connect, the user's privacy
settings can control the visibility factor of the connection on profile page.
those who are uncomfortable with the public visibility of the connection
status, they should not make the connection or try to remove it.
Danger # 2: Privacy settings revert to minimal
safety in default mode after every single redesigning phase
It was last March when private
email addresses of many Facebook users were revealed in the public domain of
Facebook page. This was an irritating fact for many. However, the glitch got
resolved at a later stage by Facebook administration body.
Danger # 3: Ads available on Facebook ads may
well contain malware
Of late, an event invitation
notice from Facebook was sent to nearly 2,300 facebook friends of a reputed
business tycoon. It actually was a scam and those responded to the ad got thier
account hacked by some unknown hacker. These sort of ads are available in
plenty through Facebook. Most of these are scams. So, think and judge carefully
before responding to these ads.
Danger # 4: Facebook friends unknowingly make
an user vulnerable
Facebook recently patched a
serious security bug which allowed the profile users to snoop silently through
a user's private chat engine and even view all the pending friend requests. It
was such a serious security threat that Facebook even disabled the chat engine
for quite a few days before patching the bug.
Danger # 5: Fake profiles being created by
scammers
This keeps on happening.
However, it is more common with celebrity profiles. Many scammers create fake
profiles and try to fool the Facebook users. Such a sort of scenario can result
in spreading negative news and rumors about celebrity personalities. Till date,
Facebook has been unable to bring out any meaningful solution to this case.
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