How well does your social networks site take care of your privacy?

It’s up to the user to take advantage of the privacy settings. That said, I find on the most popular social site that the settings are often hidden by layers and layers of menu choices. Still, users beware. It’s your job to take care of your information. I would tell anyone to not post anything anywhere online that you really want kept private.

@perspicacious the site automatically change your “private” to “public if you do something “too many” times, so we are not talking about the same thing. It should only be the user who should purposely change anything from “private” to “public”, there should be nothing automatic about it.

@flo I’m curios which site you are talking about. Personally, I’d try talking to the site administrators to see if it is actually suppose to change your settings when you do certain things or not, just in case it’s a glitch in their system. If it is suppose to work that way, I’d probably stop doing the things that cause my settings to change or stop using the site all together.

Isn’t it sort of naive to think you can have privacy on the Internet? Just asking.

@flo Which site does that?

Not enough.. Never enough…¬_¬

@Seaofclouds @perspicacious, I would rather get the accurate info as which site it is, and exactly what it is that makes it happen from experienced users of social network sites. I was expecting more answers.
@josie that is my thinking too.
@ddude1116 it sounds like it.

@flo If you told us which site it is, we might be able to help you more. I use a few different social sites, but have never noticed my privacy settings being changed just because I did a particular thing multiple times. That’s why I was curious which one does that since I’ve never noticed it on any of the sites I use. We can give you more accurate information if you told us which site it was. It’s hard to give a specific answer when we don’t know which site you are talking about.

While all of the sites I use change their privacy stuff from time to time, sometimes making it tricky to keep up with all the new ways to keep your information secure, I’ve never had a site change my settings once I set them. So I’m happy with how well the sites I use take care of things. I don’t have high expectations though, since this is the internet after all and nothing is really private online (in my opinion).

@Seaofclouds I’m not sure, that just it. I am taking kind of a poll.

@flo Ahh, I see. Well I’ve used MySpace (a while back but not recently), Facebook, LinkedIn, and a few others and I’ve never noticed one that changed my settings from private to public just because I did something particular over and over again.

Facebook does change their security stuff by adding new things and then you have to opt out, but that’s not related to what the users do, it’s just a matter of their updates. Personally, I think you should have to opt in to some of those things and that they should advertise it a bit more, but the options are still there and once you set them, they don’t get changed (at least mine have never been changed).

I haven’t used MySpace in quite some time now, but when I did use it, I never saw it change my settings either.

I only use LinkedIn for professional stuff, so I’m a bit more open with it than my other stuff. Even with it, I’ve never noticed my preferences being changed.

@Seaofclouds Good. I hope everything goes as well has been for you forever.

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