Friday, May 11, 2012

IS FACEBOOK GIVING YOU 100% FULL DATA ENCRYPTION? AND IF YES, IS IT UPDATED?

  Facebook just like any other social Media platform, has given insight to many. Take the role of twitter on a country, community & even the world itself has not only given an (OFG) Over-Fence-Gossip but created a +10000 platforms to business organization of which, many CEOs have harvested most of their Klout. The question is, are you safe to facebook & as well post pictures that may cost you, your friends together with  family members a re-grate that won't be worth remembering in the coming days? Off-course we have different encryption mechanism that are kept in pace to have your facebook account fully protected but are you considering this as a shield to balance your state of equilibrium on S.Media or it's a feature kept in place as a picture wall for anyone to admire and boast that one has a "privacy feature"?.Let me introduce a damning issue that landed a facebook dude, Patrick (A facebook avid from the United States)  into problem last year. Imagine a case where four-square is your daily geo-tagging application that feeds your friends & relatives with information of your whereabouts but unfortunately forgetting that not only them, sees this kind of information on there facebook timeline rather friends, connected with them have a spot of it too. Patrick had his information closely encrypted but not as 100% as it's known with a full encryption policy. That night was just but a snippet wake-up call when he arrived the compound, "Broken doors & windows" was the first impression that notified him things were not as usual as thugs had raided his home & everything that seemed luxurious was considered a lottery gift by these Hutchins.
             There're different technics that each & every facebook user can implement so as to attain a strong data encryption not only to the outsiders but to your facebook friends too. I understand that a strong chain has it's weakest point but again we can as well have those weakest point be an area of self interest. Taking full control of the "Pocking" feature will eventually offer a 100% of your privacy encryption. Off-late I've come to realize that we've got about (13 11 000) Million facebook users. This prompts to a 3.27% of total country's estimate. Out of that we've got only 1.23% of facebook users who have their data not fully encrypted but halfway protected. You may introduce different kind of features to have your account fully encrypted but if not updated, then you're definitely serving at a skeleton account cause looping occasion are the possible paths to have you locked out from your facebook account. Just to make it more realistic, have brought you some of my screen-shots that will make a visual aid to our case.

CONTROLLING YOUR PRIVACY ON WHAT YOU POST  
  At times you may need to let your friends know your location, posts & anything that seems rather relevant for you to your timeline but then most of your friends aren't the only crew giving gluey eyes on what you direct to them, rather "Friends of Friends" are their watching like the big brothers camp, waiting to see your ideas flashing the media. Some have positive impact while others may be waiting to have their mission completed. You can manage on who should reads what you post by setting your privacy to a custom level.

CONTROLLING YOUR DEFAULT PRIVACY
  This is another excellent feature that may have your post well protected , regardless of a client you tend to use. For instance, not everyone uses the online facebook application, isn't that right? well, at times you may need to go mobile. Myself i find it worth utilizing other suitable clients like "Facebook for Android" on cases where a laptop cannot serve especially when travelling. This setting will apply to cases where updates & photos you post on your timeline from a facebook app that doesn't have the in-line audience selector like facebook for Black Berry (BB),  i know am stepping someone's toes but, yeah! that's the transparency here, on discussion.

TIRED OF SOME FRIENDS STALKING ON YOUR ACCOUNT? HAVE YOUR CONTROL!
 That's another issue that raises great questions to most facebook users. At times i would come across different websites offering you to see who stalked on your facebook account without your knowing. What's your knowledge about it? is your facebook account safe? are you getting this to be a true meaning of how risky your account is? well, then get to know that, these website tend to read your information when your privacy policy as explained above isn't protected or if protected, it's not updated or tinkered to "Custom Level". All these mess can be quickly dealt with if the following are well configured. That's it. The ball is now rolling to your side, let's practice safe S.Media connection & keep off cases of cyber threats a history.









    

4 comments:

  1. This awesome analysis...brings deep insight...

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    1. Thanks Rowland. I had to let this security issue be an insight to my readers. It is my pleasure that you've got to learn alot on S.Media safe practice. Let's do it big next time brother. *Does the peace sign*

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  2. glad you made a point of passing by Rowland...security on our social sites should be a priority.

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    1. That's the case here. Twibut, you've said it more louder. I like the conclusion made by you. Let's practice safe S.Media notations. Thank-you!

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