Facebook Safety Recommendations

Facebook best practice: Sophos recommended privacy settings for Facebook

This article contains some really practical tips on Facebook privacy settings. Though Facebook is most likely not part of your classroom practice, it never hurts to equip your students with good tips for their real-world use of online tools.

The article, written from the perspective of a company concerned about internet security, makes simple suggestions on tweaking individual user privacy settings in ways that shouldn’t interfere terribly with Facebook usage and are accompanied by the rationale for the recommendation.

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2 Responses to “Facebook Safety Recommendations”

  1. Glenn Says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    I am not sure what facebook is

  2. Chad Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am

    The link below points to an article titled “Is Facebook the New MySpace?”. The fact that it’s compared to MySpace should give you a sense of the nature of the tool and the article points out some of the nuances that differentiate the two.

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134635-pg,1/article.html

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