Facebook is one of the most used social media all over the globe. But, Facebook users also need to be careful whenever they will put their personal information with it like home address, or where they went to school. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which over 87 million Facebook users from all over the globe had their personal information collected. This hast teach us that we can't trust any social media to keep our personal data. Well. thanks to Zuckerberg.
Here are the 10 things you might want to delete from your Facebook account to keep and protect your privacy:
1. Birthday can give people more easy access to your bank and other personal accounts, that's why birthday is actually very sensitive information. So it’s best to keep it quiet, to your bank and other personal accounts.
2. Phone Number If you don't want all of your Facebook friends or other people who look at your profile to know your number, take it off or remove it from your account.
3. Photographs of Your Child/Young Children Victoria Nash, who is the acting director of the Oxford Internet Institute said,
And what she asked was right. Children may not want their pictures thrown across different social media pages.
4. Where Your Child goes to school The number of sexual offenses on record has alarmingly increased over the last year or so, as stated in a report by the NSPCC.
The report said,
They also added,
Only put, don’t make it easier for sex offenders or potential kidnappers to find your kids.
5. Location Services In 2015, there are more than 500 million people used Facebook only from their cell phones according to the report of TechCrunch. Anyone including those who pose a threat could find out where you are because of the same number could possibly broadcast their location to the web.
6. Your Manager Your boss can see everything you’ve written on your timeline including those times you’ve badmouthed and said something bad about your job, depending on your privacy settings.
7. Stop tagging your location You’re basically giving away your address if you tag your location at home.
8. When And Where You Go On Vacation This is an attraction to criminals. Travelers who have their properties taken while on vacation is in danger for not having their insurance claim accepted if they had posted their vacation plans on their social media pages, as stated by the This Is Money.
9. Your Credit Card Details You never want to share financial details on social media, simple as that.
10. Pictures Of Your Boarding Pass It's a definitely a no-no when you posted a picture on your Instagram account your boarding pass. In order for the people to find the personal information you have given to the airline, the barcode on your boarding pass could potentially be used
Kindly share it with your family and friends for your privacy and safety.
Facebook is one of the most used social media all over the globe. But, Facebook users also need to be careful whenever they will put their personal information with it like home address, or where they went to school. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which over 87 million Facebook users from all over the globe had their personal information collected. This hast teach us that we can't trust any social media to keep our personal data. Well. thanks to Zuckerberg.Here are the 10 things you might want to delete from your Facebook account to keep and protect your privacy:
1. Birthday can give people more easy access to your bank and other personal accounts, that's why birthday is actually very sensitive information. So it’s best to keep it quiet, to your bank and other personal accounts.
2. Phone Number If you don't want all of your Facebook friends or other people who look at your profile to know your number, take it off or remove it from your account.
3. Photographs of Your Child/Young Children Victoria Nash, who is the acting director of the Oxford Internet Institute said,
“What type of information would children want to see about themselves online at a later date?”
And what she asked was right. Children may not want their pictures thrown across different social media pages.
4. Where Your Child goes to school The number of sexual offenses on record has alarmingly increased over the last year or so, as stated in a report by the NSPCC.
The report said,
“Police recorded 36,429 sexual offenses against children in the UK in 2013/2014.”
They also added,
“In England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland police recorded the highest number of sexual offenses against children in the past decade.”
Only put, don’t make it easier for sex offenders or potential kidnappers to find your kids.
5. Location Services In 2015, there are more than 500 million people used Facebook only from their cell phones according to the report of TechCrunch. Anyone including those who pose a threat could find out where you are because of the same number could possibly broadcast their location to the web.
6. Your Manager Your boss can see everything you’ve written on your timeline including those times you’ve badmouthed and said something bad about your job, depending on your privacy settings.
7. Stop tagging your location You’re basically giving away your address if you tag your location at home.
8. When And Where You Go On Vacation This is an attraction to criminals. Travelers who have their properties taken while on vacation is in danger for not having their insurance claim accepted if they had posted their vacation plans on their social media pages, as stated by the This Is Money.
9. Your Credit Card Details You never want to share financial details on social media, simple as that.
10. Pictures Of Your Boarding Pass It's a definitely a no-no when you posted a picture on your Instagram account your boarding pass. In order for the people to find the personal information you have given to the airline, the barcode on your boarding pass could potentially be used
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