Facebook…it has many uses.
It helps me keep in touch with friends and relatives. I see what everyone is up to, get a heads up
on birthdays, I play scrabble with my
sister and some other odd games.
However, there are a few things…
I often see posts that tell me I must urgently change my security
settings so that I do not repost stuff by mistake others have posted. flail flail!
The last one was regarding the Facebook Graph
App. It told me to change the security
settings for EACH of my friends. Yeah –
NO.
If I had changed my security
settings the way suggested I would not see anything or anyone on my feed AT ALL!!
I don’t take credit for analysing the post. That, according to a site called Snopes.com,
was done by security provider Sophos.
Article from Snopes including the text of the post
I have noticed that in the past it was emails that I was
checking on Snopes, in the last few years my main enquiries to Snopes have come
mostly from facebook fodder.
I have found that selecting a part of the text, copying and
pasting into a search engine such as Google, Yahoo, or anyother search engine
that you might prefer to use will give
results.
Take for instance the graphapp post, the first line up to
and including the key words Graph App.
FACEBOOK HAS CHANGED THEIR PRIVACY SETTINGS ONCE MORE!!! DUE
TO THE NEW “GRAPH APP”
I put this into a search.
The first site listed is Snopes followed by many other sites each giving
advice on this Hoax.
So, next time, maybe take a minute before you repost some “security
warning” to all of your Facebook friends.
Select some text, do a search, and just see if it is a real issue or
just something someone made up for the hell of it.
Snopes.com is an intereting read. Take a look at their articles.
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