Why? Apps That Scan Our Address Books As part of the previous article I wrote this week about some of the more risky mobile photo and video apps that kids are using, and instant messaging Phone App Kik, I discovered something shocking, there is another part of this story, if it weren’t bad enough already,… Continue Reading
With increasing numbers of people buying iPads and other tablets to use as their main computer, it’s important to note that the newer version of the official Facebook Mobile app now has the full set of privacy settings available on it. In the past you could only set the more in depth settings up… Continue Reading
This week I was contacted by a parent here on the Northern Beaches who’s daughter was duped by an online predator, who is posing as a well known Australian T.V show celebrity on Facebook. This man, has set up many Facebook pages impersonating this particular Australian “Soap” star. In this particularly alarming case the… Continue Reading
Facebook’s “Graph Search” is slowly being rolled out here in Australia. Facebook’s Graph Search is a new way to search Facebook so that you can use Facebook profiles with very personal details to pin-point and drill down exactly who you want to find, weather they are a friend or not. This new search uses your… Continue Reading
Hidden Hard To Understand Privacy Settings! If you want to protect your privacy as much as possible on Facebook, follow the Step By Step Privacy Settings video below, using the newly laid out Facebook Privacy Settings. The settings I take you through on the video below are the same settings available as the previous… Continue Reading
Facebook’s New Search Engine. Graph Search. Good for business. Bad for Privacy! With the soon to be released Facebook Graph Search just being announced, it is now imperative that you have the privacy level you want on Facebook. If you thought Timeline was a shock with how easy it was for people to… Continue Reading
Following My Interview With 2UE Today. Impersonation on social media particularly on Facebook can be a very cruel way to bully another person. How does this happen and how can you prevent it? Following My Interview With 2UE Today. As reported by “The Age” Newspaper today “Just Jeans” Facebook Page was “attacked” by a Fake… Continue Reading
Remember: There is really no such thing as a private post on Facebook, as soon as you post an update, only one of your friends has to comment or interact with that post/photo, and it will be seen by your friends friends on their walls anyway. You can minimise exposure though by changing some pre… Continue Reading
So many nasty viruses are going around on Facebook and Twitter, and at Christmas holiday time they are likely to be targeting us even more. Getting duped into to clicking on that spam link, can be potentially embarrasing if it then spreads amoungst your friends or followers, and can be worse still if you are… Continue Reading
