Tuesday, October 28, 2014

FACEBOOK: I have a good number of social media websites that I visit often, Facebook being one of them. Looking at the privacy settings there's really not a lot to control but there's more than others. I can choose whether or not I want everyone to see my post or only friends. I can control my profile and just how much I want to answer to be public like birthday, phone number, email. and so forth. I can also choose who I want to have access to looking me up but only choices between friends, friends of friends, or everyone, what about no one? I think there are a lot that you have control over but there's a lot more than you can control.

INSTAGRAM: As soon as I typed instagram it popped up with my account as a option without even having to log in. Yes i'm sure it did that simply because it recognized the email from the other tabs I had open but to me that's saying that if someone knew my email then they had access to my accounts and that to me does not seem like much privacy. Instagram does not gives much access to privacy. You can change whether or not you have access to your account, see who follows and unfollowed  you, track followers that you follow and don't follow you back. That to me is not as important as people seeing what you put or hacking into your account.

GMAIL: I couldn't really find much about the privacy settings except for how many times you've signed in from a computer or phone, the time and date, and any device that you have used to create the account with or log in with stays on your account. I feel this has the worst privacy settings simply because there aren't many options.

TWITTER: It warns you that anything you tweet can be seen by anyone whether you want them to or not. Also it asks you if you want to stay logged in, to send a message to your phone when you're being logged in, also an option to provide personal info in order to reset your password, who can tag you in certain photos, if you want what you tweet for everyone to see, or add a location so people can know where you are. I think twitter has the best privacy settings because it offers a lot of options but it's up to us to agree to them.

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