Turns out that all of Facebook’s privacy limitations make it difficult to remove your personal information even when you’ve passed from the living world and go to the big social network in the sky.
Search Engine Watch had this little blurb about a well known journalist’s profile and his sister’s fight to have it removed from the social networking giant. Sadly it seems to be another hiccup in a set of privacy policies that are highly inadequate for a Facebook platform that aggregates an eye-popping amount of personal data and then surfaces it to external applications, mashup sites and advertisers. If you want to step up your privacy on Facebook take a look at our recommended Facebook privacy settings.
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Thanks for the tips. Yes – it is pretty scary how we bare ourselves entirely on Facebook thinking we are socializing w/trusted friends and all our info is there for EVERYONE to see. I changed my privacy settings and was horrified to see the defaults allow me to be publicy available for anyone who cares to search me..
Thanks. I think Reputation.com is a MUST NEED tool.
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