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| + | Before getting into what my online data identity looks like to someone who does not know me I wanted to break down the privacy setting I have on my social media platforms. I am an active social media user and I enjoy the information and interaction it allows me to have. The biggest complaint I hear from people about these social media sites is that they are too public and share too much personal information with the world. As someone who was raised to keep as much personal information off the internet as possible but also raised in the age of a boom in social media I have been more aware of the privacy settings applications provide than most users my age. | ||
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| + | Facebook is the most hated on social media host in my opinion. This comes largely from the fact that it was one of the first, has the oldest generation still using it, and it has made many mistakes over the years. This being said, Facebook has also learned from its past battles and mistakes to an extent when it comes to improving its user based privacy settings. Unknown to many of its users, be it because of their age or their lack of investigation, you can actually make your Facebook profile/page private. | ||
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| + | By going to your profile and clicking on the "Profile Settings" tab, then navigating to the "View Privacy Shortcuts" (note I am using the terms and steps used in mobile application mode) you are presented with six different privacy categories: "Privacy", "Account Security", "Ad Preferences", "Your Facebook Information", "Safety", and "Legal and Policies". From here the user has the ability to change all of there privacy settings whether it be how information is shared across the Facebook community(with Friends, Friends of Friends, Only Me, or Public), how Facebook shares your information with search engines and other of its affiliates, and also how it interacts with your phone(Location sharing, linking with other application, ect). From my personal experience the biggest steps in securing my online identity were to change all of the default sharing options from "Private" to "Only my Friends", turning off location tracking (which is by default is turned on), and most importantly turning off the ability for my profile to appear in search engine results. Now the only way to find my Facebook profile is to be logged into Facebook and specifically typing my exact Profile name into the search, or by looking through the "Friends" list of those I have accepted as my "Friend". | ||
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Revision as of 01:14, 19 February 2021
Contents
My Data Identity: As Private as Social Media can be
Living in the Age of Information is both exciting and terrifying because of the endless opportunities and unknowns. One of the biggest debates during this information revolution has been privacy and what it means. Some believe privacy is a luxury of the past and as the world becomes more digital we must give it up, others believe we must do everything in our power to keep as much of ourselves private as possible and it wrong that companies are "stealing" this information from us. My personal data identity falls somewhere in between these two arguments. I believe in technological evolution and digitalizing the future to connect the world and make it more accessible to people everywhere. I also firmly believe my information is mine and mine alone and I should have the sole ability to decide what gets shared and who uses it.
I have taken the efforts necessary to implement my data identity into how I use social media and the internet to the best of my ability. From what I found in this project, I am happy with the results and what my public information persona appears as. Being public and social yet also private and personal is actually much easier than many may think, so I'm hoping to educate both sides of the above arguments on how they can personalize what their internet portfolio looks like.
Social Media Privacy Settings
Before getting into what my online data identity looks like to someone who does not know me I wanted to break down the privacy setting I have on my social media platforms. I am an active social media user and I enjoy the information and interaction it allows me to have. The biggest complaint I hear from people about these social media sites is that they are too public and share too much personal information with the world. As someone who was raised to keep as much personal information off the internet as possible but also raised in the age of a boom in social media I have been more aware of the privacy settings applications provide than most users my age.
Facebook is the most hated on social media host in my opinion. This comes largely from the fact that it was one of the first, has the oldest generation still using it, and it has made many mistakes over the years. This being said, Facebook has also learned from its past battles and mistakes to an extent when it comes to improving its user based privacy settings. Unknown to many of its users, be it because of their age or their lack of investigation, you can actually make your Facebook profile/page private.
By going to your profile and clicking on the "Profile Settings" tab, then navigating to the "View Privacy Shortcuts" (note I am using the terms and steps used in mobile application mode) you are presented with six different privacy categories: "Privacy", "Account Security", "Ad Preferences", "Your Facebook Information", "Safety", and "Legal and Policies". From here the user has the ability to change all of there privacy settings whether it be how information is shared across the Facebook community(with Friends, Friends of Friends, Only Me, or Public), how Facebook shares your information with search engines and other of its affiliates, and also how it interacts with your phone(Location sharing, linking with other application, ect). From my personal experience the biggest steps in securing my online identity were to change all of the default sharing options from "Private" to "Only my Friends", turning off location tracking (which is by default is turned on), and most importantly turning off the ability for my profile to appear in search engine results. Now the only way to find my Facebook profile is to be logged into Facebook and specifically typing my exact Profile name into the search, or by looking through the "Friends" list of those I have accepted as my "Friend".
