Your guide to safe social networking - part 2

Today we continue discussing how to safely browse social networking sites under the assumption that we are seeking some anonymity, anonymity might be required for many reasons, for example:

• One is writing his/her opinions frankly in countries that do not tolerate "other" opinion.
• One is having her/his social network account just for fun and don't want it to be traceable to real life person.

Follows are some advices upon meeting the anonymity requirements:

1. Take special care upon enabling/using the location feature of your social network account, it can be traced to know your place to get to you or to determine the place you are not at, yes you read it correctly the place "you are not at" please check this "Please Rob Me" site which tries to raise awareness about over-sharing.
2. Think thoroughly before adding people you don't know as your friends on Facebook, My Space or other social networks sites.
3. Think twice before identifying your family members and tagging them within your photos.
4.  In case you think that your "frank" opinions might provoke some officials in your country you better make your social network account with an alias, not your real name, never put personal info in there and use Tor (this excerpt from its site explain what is it "Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis" ) as you can find hereafter:

 

Hope that would be helpful to you  social networkers everywhere and until next post, should you need to ask about any related issue please do not hesitate to post your questions here:)