The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue

Author:Violet Blue [Blue, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Computers, Security, Online Safety & Privacy, General, Web, Health & Fitness, Safety
ISBN: 9781593276485
Google: wvKbCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 2015-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

SOCIAL MEDIA CHECKLIST

Our relationship with social sharing—photos, videos, status updates, location check-ins, and more—changes as our lives evolve. The way we feel about sharing something one day may be totally different next week (or next year). At the same time, the companies we use for sharing change, too, and their privacy and sharing policies change with them, which sometimes leaves us exposed.

For all of these reasons, everyone should do a privacy checkup about every 90 days. Why every three months? Because companies like Facebook change their policies more often than that. Imagine if you opt to recheck your privacy only every six months: that would mean you’re checking only twice a year. An embarrassing photo could be sitting out there on a public profile for half a year, and you wouldn’t even know it.

Do this first: view your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ profiles as someone else. Then adjust your privacy settings.

Don’t panic if you see something you didn’t realize was public, and don’t blame yourself for what these companies have done to your privacy. What’s online doesn’t have to stay visible forever.

When you log back in to your account to adjust your privacy levels, review settings like these:

• Control your visibility

• What does my profile look like?

• What happens if I share my photos on other sites?

• Who can see my photos or location?

• How to remove my images

• How to delete my profile

• Tagging

• Personalization

• Location

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