facebook. Security risk?

[chameleon]

I was thinking about this as I saw the news about the latest hit on an american and the second in a couple weeks.


I haven't added my novia to facebook. In fact, I never log in to the site so it's really not a big deal, but there is just too much info about lifestyle/plans on there.


I could easily picture a situation in which a novia, with hundreds of FB friends is suddenly married/involved to a gringo. Right there you have a link to everything about the guy. you can see how he lives, who his friends are, when he's planning to travel, etc. You could easily have thousands of people look at you if your gf has even 100 friends, which is probably low for an attractive girl.


Recommendation: stay off FB and at a minimum don't mention your travel plans to colombia. Lock it down as much as possible so that only your friends can see your profile (and not your friends' friends).

[beginthebeguin]

That is exactly what is happening now in Cali. Teenagers especially are now reverting to crazy sounding (sometimes ribald in nature) phonetically sounding nicknames for their account names. Profiles are not so much 'locked down' so to speak, that's counterproductive to social networking, but they are being more selective as to what is on the profiles. Once the novelty wears off the teens, sometimes influenced by older relatives, start becoming more social network savvy.
 
My ladyfriend's son has gone through such an evolution with his account in the period of about 4 months. 

[Gato4Astrid]

You need to set your Facebook privacy.

[Woody]

You need to set your Facebook privacy.

Bingo. Facebook privacy settings are pretty granular. You can set things so that unless someone is explicitly your friend, you pretty much don't exist on Facebook. I would recommend you change your security settings to "Friends Only" at a minimum if you are concerned about situations like this cropping up. You can even set it so that your friends cannot see who your other friends are.

[fathertime]

I haven't added my novia to facebook. In fact, I never log in to the site so it's really not a big deal, but there is just too much info about lifestyle/plans on there.


I could easily picture a situation in which a novia, with hundreds of FB friends is suddenly married/involved to a gringo. Right there you have a link to everything about the guy. you can see how he lives, who his friends are, when he's planning to travel, etc. You could easily have thousands of people look at you if your gf has even 100 friends, which is probably low for an attractive girl.


 

well Cham, It is a rare occasion where i would add somebody to the friends list unless i at least met them....my wife got me onto facebook but it is only her and a select group of friends/family that i'm friends with....nobody else can see anything of importance...besides it is probably best not to put anything specific travel plans anyways, i never do...until after the fact.


Fathertime! 

[JimD]

Facebook is probobly the most accurate reflection of a colombiana's activity that you could hope to find. That is of course if you can see it all which if you are a gringo suiter you probobly can't. They are very savy and as Woody described they can select who sees what. They can also slip up.