Facebook and Privacy: What You Should Know - DIT 36024
| DIT 36024 | 3 hours |
“Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life”.It says it right on the front page of the Facebook website. The point of having a profile is to share. And it seems as more people join Facebook, criticism about privacy breaches has become an almost daily conversation on your friends News Feed and in the media. And it seems like Facebook has listened to the users by making your personal controls easier to access and implement. However, Facebooks aim is to push the user to share more information publicly, to enhance the web and to foster empathy globally between users. But we all know there is a downfall to sharing everything. Who doesn’t want to avoid awkward moments at family reunions or that second job interview, highlighting details of crazy nights so long ago (or not so long ago). You should become aware of the distance that your personal information, status updates, ‘Likes’ and photos can travel and who can access these with the new developer tools.
Programs
Prerequisites
Objectives
This seminar will look at the following:
- Show you how to configure your Facebook site for maximum control of your personal information.
- Examine some of the success and failures of the sites privacy policy.
- Look at how Facebook intends to use “Instant Personalization” and other developer tools to expand the social and personal interaction not only on the site but through out the Internet.
- Go over best practices to keep the control of your site in your hands.
- A discussion on privacy in 2010 and how it affects our lives today.
Outcomes
Participants will leave the seminar with a good handle on Facebooks Privacy features and how to use them including:
- managing friends and levels of privacy using Friends Lists
- control who sees your profile through Google searches and through the Facebook.
- segment your blocks of information to control visibility and access.
We will also have a more clear understanding of how the websites that have implemented the Facebook Developer Platform use your personal information and what you can do to limit or exploit this web experience.
Additional Comments
Notice
This is a tentative outline.
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Cost
This seminar will cost $49.
There are no prerequisites for this course.