Thursday, October 28, 2010

Sharing Too Much on Facebook Could Cost You

Since so many of us use facebook everyday, the information in this post can be helpful to most of us, and provides some tips on how to use facebook in a safe manner to protect your identity. Also it is relevant to the material discussed in class. Enjoy!

http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1770690.html

2 comments:

  1. Wow, I didn't realize that metadata containing the time and location of a picture/video could be kept on Facebook. It is so easy to post photos now with smartphones.

    It is certainly frightening to know that a password is only $0.25. Clearly they're being sold in bulk...

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  2. Here is an example the beauty and horror of Geotags: http://www.flickr.com/map/.
    I've seen many other websites that provides similar service.

    Also, I wonder how many people know that their photo is searchable using a map.

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