So this weeks post is suppose to be me taking a look at what information I hide and share via the wonderful site of Facebook. But first I should give you a little background with my relationships with social networking sites. When I was 18 years old I was introduced to the now Infamous Myspace.com. I created a profile and soon had more friends than I knew what to do with. I wasn’t addicted to it like many of my classmates at the time, my profile had no music and wasn’t too fancy. I had maybe 12 or 13 pictures on it and maybe 1 was of me. Then I went to college and joined facebook which at the time was exclusive to people in college because you had to have a college email address. I immediately enjoyed facebook more than myspace because I no longer had to deal with the stupid High School drama that I had left behind when I went to college. Then things changed. My regular email began to get flooded with emails of Myspace friend requests from men and women I didn’t know who were posing in “exotic” ways. I began to get frustrated and finally deleted my account, sorry Tom. Hopefully things would stay cool with facebook. Nope, facebook became the new myspace with status updates and the ever famous feed and mini feed portions which allow you to see what your friends have done recently. Sometimes this feature is cool and other times it gets a little annoying. I still have my facebook because I don’t have a problem with the “exotic” friend requests.
Now what sort of information to I give on my facebook page well I looked at my profile and it is very basic. I have my name Birthday and which city and state I live in. my political view is no ones business that is why I say moderate and I don’t like confrontation, I also don’t have my religion up there because that’s what I believe and its my business. My Relationship status is also blank, that’s a personal choice, ill never forget when I took it off all hell broke loose, friends and family calling and asking why they hadn’t met this mysterious girl when there was none. Next comes the personal information which is the favorites. I mainly like this section for the quotes so that I can either inspire or crack smiles to my friends. Other than that there is nothing important there. As I scroll down my profile I leave out my home address, phone number, and zip code because the last thing I need is someone stalking me or taking my identity and I recommend to everyone that they do the same thing, however I do put my email on there, its not really a big deal for me to let people know my email especially when my email provider allows me to see the name of the person sending the message and if I don’t recognize it, delete. So take my advice if you don’t want to get stalked on facebook avoid being as personal as possible, facebook is a good way to keep in touch with people but should not be used as an address or phone book.
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There is no question the web has opened up an entirely new way for people to harass others. It is amazing the links that some will go to. I think that it is clear we have to use our best judgment and be super cautious. I was reading an article today in the NY Times magazine about a teacher that has a Facebook page. She said that after a few weeks many of her students "friended" her. What was interesting in this situation is that not one of the students censored themselves whatsoever. So now this teacher is aware of EVERYTHING that they are doing.......drinking, cutting class, cheating all of it. She has information about many of the kids and now her dilemma is does she tell the parents?
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