I wasted all morning chasing ghosts on Facebook. Facebook is not the enemy, folks. Google is.
So today I get a news report from CNN on my cellphone telling me all the reasons why I needed to check my Facebook Page for all the potential privacy violations, that I undoubtedly have that I'm not aware of, and they named them and how I could clean it all up. So I made a bunch of notes from the cell phone (it took a while because the page kept going out) and then logged into my Facebook account. Well the first place i went to was the Apps settings because that is more likely where I expected to find most of the issues. That is where CNN informed me was all the hidden places evil people could invade my space because I may have once upon a time made a reservation using my Facebook USER ID. I couldn't recall ever doing so but the CNN article said that I could have things that I didn't even know about like if I had used my Facebook User ID in the place of another User ID and then I started thinking, Yes I might have done that before. You know when you go to post a comment to an article in the Washington Post and you can't remember your WP User ID because you don't use it very often and you forgot but they will allow you to use another User ID. Okay, yes I've done that. So I was surprised that I had about 10 APPS to things I never expected to have. Mostly newspapers or magazines, Facebook and Pintrest.
To make a long story short, I spent several hours making notes of where to find what, and how to delete things and what to do if I can't delete them, and reading that it might take months for things to actually be removed that I delete today, In the end, I found nothing that I found to be an invasion of my privacy, except a previous birthday notice that revealed my actual birthdate. No links to credit card data, no account information, no Driver's License Info, home address, etc.
I've had more personal stuff revealed about me on Zillow and Realtor.com and Google than I found on Facebook. FTR, you might want to do a search of your name on Google, because there are some companies that are compiling a lot of information about you and your family and they are offering it for sale to you, and who knows who else. I'm talking about your age, address, previous home addresses, children's names, children's ages, spouse's name, traffic tickets you've received, arrests, marital status, my neighbor's names, my neighbor's address, etc. These are the people I'm concerned of. I came across one of these websites while looking for something else, and I was surprised how accurate the information they had on me was, and they reveal much of this information without you even buying it. The one company that stood out was Nuwber.com because it displayed so much of my personal information. They don't allow you to see all the information they have on you, but they show you enough information that is accurate, and then they ask you do you want to purchase the information that they have in your file to make sure that it is accurate. As I said, these are the people we should be concerned about who are violating your privacy. Facebook, I'm not so concerned about. I would encourage everyone to Google your name, and look for the website that comes up that begins with Nuwber.com and see how much information that they provide on you, your family and your neighbors.
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