When becoming a creating a Facebook it always requires their users to provide their email address and create a password. Then when customizing their account they can add a profile picture. When making your profile more personal some people chose to add their birthday, their current school and what country they live in etc.
Some people argue that some Facebook users are inappropriate with their posts i.e. pictures, wall messages, status updates. Where their pictures could show them getting drunk, wall messages showing them to have sexual nature or a banal status of them complaining they are hungry when solution is obvious.
“If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.” (Nelson, Unknown).
On Facebook we share images, statuses etc, promoting yourself to be interpreted a certain way by certain people for example someone looking at your profile might think your on one had a party animal, or someone else might look at you as a reckless person with an unstable life style. Facebook you never know if you could be hacked and the information you put out can possibly set you up for identity theft, its just a matter of carefully choosing what you put out there.
Bibliography:
Nelson, B., Unknown, Ben Nelson Quotes. Available at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_nelson.html (Accessed on 4th November 2011)
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