What NOT to Post on Facebook

Scandalous or Drunken Photographs
Here's a simple rule to live by when posting photographs of yourself and allowing yourself to be tagged in photographs: if you wouldn't show them to your parents, you're not going to want to show them to the Facebook community. Employers and Co-workers can and will get a hold of these pictures and you will be fired for them. Unfair? Maybe. But putting these pictures on the internet gives employers the right to find them. You've made you're own bed, so enjoy sleeping in it.

Phone Numbers

I do not understand the need to put your cell phone number on Facebook.  You wouldn't give your phone number out to a random guy in a bar.  In fact, you would most likely give him a fake phone number.  Why then would you post your phone number on the internet for all guys you've met at bars to see?  This isn't safe and it doesn't make sense to me.  If someone needs your phone number, they'll ask you for it.  Keep those digits to yourself!

Your Every Waking Moment

Please people, Facebook is not Twitter.  I do not care what you're doing every thirty minutes.  Accordingly, please stop taking yourself SO seriously.  "Ashley is floating in a cloud of ecstasy because she just published a new hub," is a really annoying status update.  Don't I sound like a tool starved for attention in that status update?  Yes, I do.  Go ahead and admit it.  Your updates sound the same when when you try to be insanely prolific.  This is Facebook, people, you're not writing the next Grapes of Wrath for goodness sake!

Your Home Address

Really?  Need I say more?  Facebook isn't yellow pages, people (and not many people are even listed there anymore)!  Stay safe and keep your living space information on a need to know basis, not on a need to friend request basis. 

 

There are Ways to Monitor Who Sees What

Facebook has come up with a number of ways to stay safe in this online community.  You can adjust your settings so not everyone can see everything you post on your pages.  You can mark things private, block people, the list goes on and on.  Here are two good links about Facebook safety.