“Our
concern, quite frankly, is that people think it provides a level of security,
but it actually doesn't”
Nicky Jackson Colaco, part of Facebook’s Privacy team,
in an interview with CNET in December 2012
The
Social Media punchbowl just got a little more complicated. Facebook has now
disabled the “Who can look up your Timeline by name”
privacy feature, making it easy for anyone to find you as stated in “Now
anyone can find you on Facebook -- no matter what”, published October 10,
2013 1:00 PM PDT by Jennifer Van Grove, CNET
News and “Facebook
no longer lets users hide from search”, published Thursday, October 10,
2013 | 6:30 PM, The Jamaica Observer.
Really Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg?
Like
the Bowl below, your social lives are like “ants inna milk” now; once anyone
knows your name, they can find you using Graph Search within Facebook, albeit
they can’t see your profile page once you enable it for view by Friends Only as
well as not searchable via Google!
Graph
Search is Facebook’s Contextual Social Search Engine that allows you to make
connections on Facebook as Search outside of Facebook using Bing Search Engine as
explained in my Geezam blog article
entitled “Facebook
to introduce #Hashtags with emoticons, monetizing FB and making Open Graph
Search Practical”. Facebook can now officially be called ‘Fass” Book as we
Jamaicans like to style this most popular of Social Networks!
Essentially,
anyone, not just the NSA or CIA, can find out about that embarrassing picture
you wanna hide; more reason to like Snapchat as it’s a great way to test your
friend’s loyalty with images that are a embarrassing yet fleetingly 10 seconds before
self-destructing like chaff in the wind as originally argued in my blog article
entitled “Snapchat
now racks up 350 million shares of self-deleting snaps per day - Milennial
Girl’s Litmus Test for Friends and future boyfriends”.
Aside
for the reason given in the quote at the start of my ditty, it’s hardly used by
anyone on Facebook. Also it’s pointless; it doesn’t stop your annoying
boyfriend from finding you; if your still friends with one of his friends, he
can still find you via clicking on your name in a post or any tagged photos and
perusing your friend’s Friend list.
Thus
Big Social Blue had decided to kill off the feature in December 2012 as stated
in “Facebook
privacy settings get reworked once again”, published December 12, 2012 8:50
AM PST by Donna Tam, CNET News. This was to
introduce Graph Search in early 2013, which hasn’t helped Facebook’s cause much
against Google+ as stated in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
extinct as Chrome to be No. 1 Browser in 2012AD – FB rides Bed Knobs and
Broomsticks Mobile Revolution against Google+”.
Facebook
is still growing Strong, like House Tyrell in Game of Thrones with over a billion
active users as concluded in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
continues to grow despite challenges from Mobile Social Network - Facebook is
Growing Strong like House Tyrell in Game of Thrones”.
But
with this recent removal of one more layer of Privacy coupled with Graph Search
means the NSA (National Secret Service), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) and CIA (Central intelligence Agency) –
or worse your employer – being able to read your free-minded posts or rants,
getting off Face book now would be a really good idea for many! Especially as
it makes you a target of advertising from these heavy hitters who have massive
Facebook followings by the way!
But
there are alternatives to nuking your Facebook page….and they all start with
YOU!
Facebook Privacy gone
Personal – Beware of what you post
If
you’ve read the blog article of Fellow blogger and Social Media Expert Kerry
Kimone on the difference between Pages and Profiles “Pages
and Profiles are NOT the same”, viewed August 27 2013 by Lindsworth,
published by Kerry Kimone, Kerry is Social,
you’ll realize why it’s important as a blogger why you need a Facebook Page. Remember
the below motto!
A
Facebook Profile is just a regular Facebook Page that anyone can set up once
you have an email account. A Facebook Page, however, is specific to a business
and as such what you post on it should be of relevance to that business as it’s
designed to sell your business.
Also,
a Facebook Page gives you more options as it relates to analytics to see who’s
visiting your Facebook Page, very handy for running Social Media Campaigns
according to Kerry Kimone’s article “Social Media Mafia” viewed
August 27 2013 by Lindsworth, published by Kerry Kimone, Kerry is Social.
Not
to mention free Blogger integration tools that allow you to add a Facebook
Comment Box onto your Blogger Blog as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
to integrate a Facebook and Google+ Comment Box in Blogger to increase Blog
Traffic - Managing your Google+, Facebook and Blogger Profiles”!
This
handy guide below, albeit meant in jest, gives a fairly good Social Media
Guideline as what you should and should not post and where to post it.
So
it’s simple.
Even
better, as Social Media Expert Kerry Kimone advises, you can just have a
Facebook Page for your business Clients, as contrary to popular belief, you
don’t need to have 5000 friend to get a Facebook Page. You can simply apply for
one. You can then set up a Facebook Profile that’s not in your real name but a
pseudonym. You can also avoid using your real picture and instead use an avatar
that represents your emotional state!
Despair
not Facebook Faithful! It doesn’t have to get so drastic as getting a separate
Facebook Page! Setting your Security
options in Settings for your posts and pics to “Friends Only” instead of “Everyone”
as well as the option to allow you Facebook Page to be Searchable via Search
Engines such as Google will still prevent people from Googleing you and looking
on your private snaps!
Problem
Solved. No need to nuke your page, as the Power of Privacy is in now in YOUR
Hands!
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