Facebook is too difficult for non-computer experts to configure in a private manner. If you’re a computer expert, configuring Facebook in a private manner isn’t much more than intermittently time consuming, a mosquitolike annoyance, but it is still possible to make mistakes! When a computer expert learns of some configuration change, he or she has to spend several minutes to several hours understanding that change and then usually turn the privacy up from Facebook’s default setting. Since it can sometimes be difficult for even an expert to make this analysis, ordinary users have little hope of achieving the highest levels of privacy on Facebook. Short of embarking on the decades of training necessary to become computer experts, ordinary users should never add any material to Facebook they don’t want to become public. For me, roughly the same guidelines I developed for posting material on computer BBS systems in 1987 applies today, 25 1/2 years later. The material I add to Facebook is informative or amusing things about myself, subjects I am currently researching, what I learned today, the music I am listening to, the social events I am attending, and people, places, and things I care about.
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