Top 5 Things That Shouldn’t Be On Your Facebook

What details would you do well never to share or tell? Do you know  who’s watching your moves on Facebook? Employers. stalkers, criminals and scamers have been known to scan Facebook profiles for information. Just as troubling are reports of Facebook account hackers, who put users at risk for identity fraud. Even if you safeguard personal information with a “Friends Only” setting, there is a chance you’ve friended someone whom you barely know or have never met. View the following points about what to leave out of your Facebook life.

1. Your Home Address- Unless your profile is on complete lock-down and no one but you  can see it, then you should never put your home address on your profile. You’d think this was common sense, but people using different “check-in” services while at their house put their lives at risk.

2. Your long and short trips away from home- There may be a better way to say “Rob me, please” than posting something along the lines of: “Count-down to Maui! Two days and Ritz Carlton, here we come!” on Twitter. But it’s hard to think of one. Post the photos on Facebook when you return, if you like. But don’t invite criminals in by telling them specifically when you’ll be gone.

3. Naked or revealing pics of yourself- Posting embarrassing naked photos of yourself on Facebook is a terrible idea. You doing that poses an invitation to stalkers and you could be a victim of cyber-stalking which can include threats of violence. Stalkers will be tempted to attacking you sexually.

4. Your Phone Number- Sure, you can put contact details such as website info and email for business purposes perhaps but if your phone numbers, you’ve just given identity thieves a key to  stalking you. Sharing it with Facebook Pages can also get you in trouble.

5. Hate speech- In fact, with each pointless hateful comment, more and more of your “friends” are silently blocking you from appearing in their news feeds, until at last one day you are simply screaming into the void, with no one to answer—as fitting a punishment as we can imagine. Also, your insecurity is showing.