My personal informed opinion is I wouldn't touch any social media sites with a barge pole. Personally I treat anything going outside my network as public domain regardless of privacy polices. Food for thought in 2007 cyber-crime overtook drugs as the major source of income for the undesirable types in society Switched.com estimated to worth $105 Billion. A quick Google shows more up to date figures of $114B in 2011 Norton
Some of this is crime is related to identity theft to either target yourself or your employer: when you ring the bank for something how often do they want "security questions" answered to "prove" your identity - about 80% are open source i.e. full name and address - Electoral role, date of birth genealogy sites or register of births, deaths and marriages, mothers maiden name ... you get were I'm coming from. I work on the principle that if nothing is online about me it makes the crims job than much harder and they will go looking else were and if they really wanted to target me and to get my $50 savings they could. (That's not a challenge by the way)
To quote ZD Net
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For every second that goes by, 19 people worldwide fall victim to some form of online crime, most commonly social network hacking and credit card fraud.[/quote] ZD Net
I hope this doesn't sound like a rant, but do I believe people need to be informed; we all share a common interest in Flight Sim so someone reading this post can't be that bad.
I hope this doesn't sound like a rant, but do I believe people need to be informed; we all share a common interest in Flight Sim so someone reading this post can't be that bad.
Last edited by zkcav on Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Nice one! Good come-back. While things like FB are potentially useful, I'd wager that if one could add up the copious hours that many waste on FB one would find that it's almost as wasteful as TV. Except the new gen of couch potatoes multitask: they waste time watching TV while they update FB while they Text while they eat... 
