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7 Ways To Protect Yourself And Your Information When Using Facebook

7 Ways To Protect Yourself And Your Information When Using Facebook

Many Facebook users fail to realize how much information about themselves they’re giving away and how easily unprincipled app makers and identity thieves can exploit that data. Here are some things you should and should not do to protect your ...

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Social Media: A Valuable Tool For Preppers

Social Media: A Valuable Tool For Preppers

Preparing for the time when society collapses is more than just a hobby for many people. Prepping is a way of life and a way to ensure survival when a natural disaster, economic collapse, or a pandemic strikes the nation ...

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Facebook Privacy and You: An In-Depth Look

Facebook Privacy and You: An In-Depth Look

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal turned the spotlight on Facebook apps and how they can compromise your personal security. In truth, all social media channels have privacy issues, but with almost a billion users, Facebook is far ...

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Parenting in the Digital Age

Parenting in the Digital Age

The pressure comes from everywhere. Television, movies, and music are constantly breaking new ground for promiscuity and moral decay. Experts talk incessantly about self-esteem and self-actualization. Neighbors and acquaintances frown on traditional values. All around, influence peddlers are hawking their ...

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iPhone Apps and our Fascination with Other People’s Information

iPhone Apps and our Fascination with Other People’s Information

Highlight is part of an emerging trend of apps for smartphones that reveals information you have chosen with anyone else with the same app that is in close proximity to you. Other so called social apps include Sonar, Glancee, Kismet, ...

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New Timeline Feature Violates Facebook Users Privacy?

New Timeline Feature Violates Facebook Users Privacy?

Some users of Facebook suggest that they change the site constantly simply to keep their employees busy. If you take advantage of Facebook, you understand this complaint. It certainly seems like the changes made to the social networking site are ...

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Simple Protection in the Information Age

Simple Protection in the Information Age

Recently an episode of an investigative television show highlighted a case about a Florida woman who had been kidnapped and a ransom placed on her head. Through the many twists and turns of the story, eventually the clue that would ...

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Navigating the New Facebook Privacy Settings

Navigating the New Facebook Privacy Settings

Facebook is at it again! Just when you thought you had everything figured out, they’ve gone and changed things. While the most obvious change is to the news feed that appears as your homepage when you log in, there are ...

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How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter

How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter

Between being a writer for a living and having this incredibly effusive personality, when my husband and I decided to move to Puerto Rico and start life anew living off the grid, there were a few aspects about this new ...

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