What to Avoid on Facebook?

Millions of people use social networking sites such Facebook and Twitter to connect with friends and family. But security experts warn the user that too much information on Facebook mengumbar so potentially dangerous.

Social networking sites make people easily connect with others. But security experts warn to be careful about the published data.

"Do not tell everything. Think before you write on Facebook. Erase all user information as soon as possible," said Internet expert David Gewirtz.

He reminded that the user did not write the address, phone number, birth date and place of birth mother's name on Facebook. It can be used by pejahat to guess the bank account information.

"There are organized criminals in several countries which are constantly looking for information like that on Twitter and Facebook to get access to bank accounts," recalls Gewirtz.

He added if the user posting the phone number, at least it will get unwanted phone promotion. Meanwhile, if memberikaan address, guests do not get invited.

"People who met on Facebook is not necessarily true friends. They just happened to encounter people. But being summoned as a friend, they behave like a friend but it's not," said Gewirtz.

So how to protect themselves in order to secure the social networking site? "If you use Facebook, set the setting by turning off all the related information can be accessed by the public. So with more and more information can be accessed it will be many more who consider as potential victims," said Gewirtz

Hot: Facebook Terrorist

American Intelligence Agency uses a complex computer program to create a database with forms such as Facebook. The program is to assist in building a relationship to the network terrorists.

Intelligence agencies to take raw data from various sources, including information obtained from the results of their interviews of the suspects who were arrested and telecommunications data obtained from the emails and phone calls.

When the information has been entered into the computer program, expected to help in knowing the major figures in terrorist organizations and to predict the occurrence of an attack before they attacked.

By analyzing the social networks that exist among the known terrorists, or against a suspect even in those who were not involved, military leaders hope to open a new chapter in the "war on terror".

Dr Ian McCulloh, U.S. army officers in the military education center in New York Westpoint told The Independent that he uses social networking analyst to uncover the relationship between various video death diAmerika made by insurgents in Iraq.

He also said an explanation of how they deal are confidential. "But our interpretation stating that the video was apparently made by the same groups that ... it makes us able to see part of a terrorist group with the actual attack," he said.

With the spread of intelligence to reach the wider community, the agency plans to oversee the community. People who are not familiar or which are not related, remains incorporated into a computer algorithm to be calculated with the method to investigate their relationship that may be overlooked by humans

Panic Button on Facebook To Protect Children

LONDON - Facebook has launched a site of internal changes designed to help people stay safe and report the threats while online.

Facebook Safety Center, has a new security tool for parents, teachers, youth and law enforcement. This is the first major step of the social networking site and global security advisory council that was four months.

The company was launched Safety Center a day after meeting officials of child protection in England, which has pushed the company to install the "panic" on the site. This was considered urgent after the abduction and murder by a teenage boy whom he met on Facebook.

Child Online Protection Centre and Exploitation (CEOP), Facebook wants to install the safety path on the user profile pages in the UK that would lead them to security sites CEOP, which has been designed to help deal with children from online threats.

"We believe that without access prevention provided by the visible directly to CEOP button on every page of the children, it will not be helpless. Parents can not be assured and the offender will not (be) blocked," said the Security Center on its website.

Facebook Council consists of Internet security groups, like Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute. Some new features of the safety center to include more content to stay safe, such as dealing with violence online, interactive portals and simple design.

The presence of sexual predators are a problem for social networking sites and their users. Facebook, which is based in Palo Alto, California, has helped to identify and have a list of accounts that cyber criminals. In the year 2008 said that Facebook has agreed to help the 49 lawyers to protect children against Internet predators.

Apa itu Facebook?

Facebook adalah situs web jejaring sosial yang diluncurkan pada 4 Februari 2004 dan didirikan oleh Mark Zuckerberg, seorang lulusan Harvard dan mantan murid Ardsley High School. Keanggotaannya pada awalnya dibatasi untuk siswa dari Harvard College. Dalam dua bulan selanjutnya, keanggotaannya diperluas ke sekolah lain di wilayah Boston (Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, dan semua sekolah yang termasuk dalam Ivy League.

Banyak perguruan tinggi lain yang selanjutnya ditambahkan berturut-turut dalam kurun waktu satu tahun setelah peluncurannya. Akhirnya, orang-orang yang memiliki alamat surat-e suatu universitas (seperti: .edu, .ac, .uk, dll) dari seluruh dunia dapat juga bergabung dengan situs jejaring sosial ini.

Selanjutnya dikembangkan pula jaringan untuk sekolah-sekolah tingkat atas dan beberapa perusahaan besar. Sejak 11 September 2006, orang dengan alamat surat-e apa pun dapat mendaftar di Facebook. Pengguna dapat memilih untuk bergabung dengan satu atau lebih jaringan yang tersedia, seperti berdasarkan sekolah, tempat kerja, atau wilayah geografis.

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