Facebook Loss Of Privacy Analysis

Creating a Facebook account is fairly easy, you just enter your first and last name, an email address, date of birthday and your sex. After providing the basic information, I was given the option to find friends from the email address provided earlier. The next step is to fill out your profile information such as your hometown, current city, and employer, all of which is optional. The final step of adding a profile picture is also optional however, I suggest that everyone add a profile picture because many individuals won’t accept friend request from unidentified requestors. Today, unlike when I first created my Facebook page, new members have the options to take a privacy tour to learn how to limit the information they share with an audience, how tagging works, and how …show more content…
For example, a frequently used security questions for online banking is “what is your mother’s maiden name?” which can easily be found out if your mother and uncle are both your friend on Facebook and your relationship with them is listed. Another example is one of my security questions to recover my password for several of my other accounts was “where did you and your spouse meet,” I always thought this was a good security password, as I’m originally from Atlanta, Georgia and my wife was born in Washington D.C. plus I was in the Army and have traveled to numerous different places. However, upon further examination of my profile I discovered a picture that someone posted of my wife and I from high school, congratulating us on our anniversary a few year back with the caption “true love high school sweethearts,” that photo and this assignment made me change the previously stated security