I have been thinking about it for few days. I was about to update my status one day and suddenly stopped, thinking did I really want all my "friends" to read this.
I was wondering if I really want to share few of my pictures or status updates to my ex- students or my nieces or nephews?
I know there are few settings and you can limit the audience and what not.
Believe me I had done all that before. When I had few friends (cannot even imagine now) I used to do custom setting, then after 50 I think I made groups for family, distant families, friends, friends 2 and few more I rather not disclose here. But now I have over 300 friends, it's so difficult to maintain those lists. I did try few times to "update" the lists though.
I have my school friends, college friends, friend's families, my students, few of my husband's friends, their wives, his friends from school and two different colleges, his various jobs and my friends from different places I lived in, few groups I became part of. Off course when I make friends or accept the request I make sure I know them personally most of the time.
Then you meet people out of these categories and they are your friends now.
So far I am not including my colleagues as my FB friends but sometimes I feel left out at work when they all talk about FB. I am still not considering opening my facebook profile to work gossip.
In my Marketing class we had a discussion how the HR is screening the candidates from facebook profiles. And that got me thinking again about pictures on FB. I can make my profile private or very restricted but I am still widely visible on FB.
I keep everything restricted only to the friends or to certain list but how about my friends who keep their profile open to public or to their friends?
So here I am thinking what’s next? What should I do? Is there anything I am missing in privacy setting or just not post anything personal? The later is not so attractive choice as I really love my FB circle.. Any suggestion or what do you all do?
This post is much about facebook, will write more about other aspect of privacy soon.
