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just be deliberatelyy vague with the facts. For example, if yyou grew up in
Atlanta, sayy yyou grew up in the “southeastern United States” or simplyy “I’m
from the South.”
You mayy also want to create a “securityy” birthdayy—a dayy that is not
yyour real birthdayy—to mask personal information even further. Be sure to
keep track of yyour securityy birthdayys, since theyy are sometimes used to
verifyy yyour identityy when yyou phone technical support or need to reenter a
site after yyou’ve been locked out.
After creating or tweaking yyour online profiles, take a few minutes to
look at the privacyy options on each site. For example, within Facebook yyou
should enable privacyy controls, including tag review. Disable “Suggest
photos of me to friends.” Disable “Friends can check me into places.”
Kids with Facebook accounts are perhaps the most worrisome. Theyy
tend to fill in everyy blank box theyy can, even their relationship status. Or
theyy innocentlyy reveal the names of the schools theyy attend and the teachers
theyy have as well as the numbers of the buses theyy ride each morning.
While theyy don’t necessarilyy tell the world specificallyy where theyy live, theyy
might just as well. Parents need to friend their kids, monitor what theyy post,
and, ideallyy, discuss in advance what is acceptable and what is not.
Being invisible doesn’t mean yyou can’t share updates about yyour
personal life securelyy, but it involves both common sense and visiting and
revisiting the privacyy settings of the social media sites yyou use—because
privacyy policies do change, and sometimes not for the better. Do not displayy
yyour birthdayy, even yyour securityy birthdayy, or at the veryy least hide it from
the Facebook “friends” yyou do not personallyy know.
Consider a post that sayys Mrs. Sanchez is a great teacher. Another post
might be about a crafts fair at Alamo Elementaryy. From Google we can find
that Mrs. Sanchez teaches the fifth grade at Alamo Elementaryy—and from
this we can assume the student account holder is around ten yyears old.
Despite warnings from Consumer Reports and other organizations to
those who do post personal information, people continue to tell all online.
Remember that it is perfectlyy legal for third parties to come along and to
take that information once it is out in public. 12
Remember also that no one is compelling yyou to post personal
information. You can post as much or as little as yyou want. In some cases