Since the recent updates with Facebook there are many new tutorials and walk-thrus to help explain how the new layout operates with the rest of your profile. Take the Tour so we will be able to navigate each part of the new Facebook. One of the latest features is adding in a person that you are with. You can now tag the people that you are hanging out with making your profile more relevant and also relevant two the profiles of the friends. My personal view is that this is giving away way too much. You are opening yourself up to a scammer who can troll your profile and begin piecing the parts of your online life together. The company you keep is now heavily weighted in your profile and that information is key for scammers to set up potential ID thefts.
This is an invasion of the other person’s privacy. I should not be able to say that so-and-so is out here. We have no right, but it’s a new feature on Facebook to bring us all just a little closer together. I’m definitely not a fan of this Zuckerberg but we can see that this will assist in the viral sharing of media. Putting yourselves and your locations may be neat so that your friends can see but potential scammers are watching and realising that these guys are not at home. Then what?
Location sharing is next up on the agenda but as mentioned above I’m also not a huge fan of this because it will automatically let everyone know you are not at home. These features are watched closely by scammers and I recommend CALLING your friends if you really want to be found.
Updating your status is one of the great features of Facebook, but often we questions what we are going to say there, who it may offend and how certain people could perceive it. Now we have several options as to who can view your status: Public, Friends of Friends, Friends + tagged, Only me, Custom.
At least we know that Public means everyone can see this content. Be Careful what you share publicly. In the new format these 3 levels are the first thing you see when updating your status: Who, Where and Privacy.
1:Who 2: Where 3: Privacy
These updates are in your status updates and in your posts. The account settings is where the real protection comes into play, let’s focus on the options available in your account. You will see the Secure Browsing feature (Enable this as it will encrypt your communications with Face book). The second important one if you have an easy password is to enable login notifications so that you will receive an email every time you log in. One of the new features is your login approval: I’m especially impressed with this feature as it will double check to make sure the machine you are using is allowed. If you are only ever logging on at home or at the office this secures your machine (mobile devices) with your Facebook.
A similar feature can conflict with the login approval is the Apps passwords. To avoid getting a notification that this feature is trying to access your information, you can add login information for your app. Securely login into Skype and your Xbox profile with separate passwords. After Facebooks epic rise they will continually roll-out security changes to match the growth of the 800 million users. Keep up to date right here with the changes and how to use them.
