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"Saving Face: 5 Tips to Better Security on Facebook"

From an article by Tom Mighell: "Now that more than 200 million people have joined Facebook, lawyers are starting to experiment with this most popular form of social media. It's not that lawyers feel it's especially safe to do so, but they recognize that Facebook is a place they probably need to be.

Not surprisingly, lawyers talk a lot about privacy and security concerns they have there, and their wariness is justified. As you may know, Facebook recently made some big changes to its privacy controls that created some controversy.

If you follow the simple steps below, you will be in the top 1 percent or 2 percent of lawyers using Facebook when it comes to good privacy and security. However, I can't protect you from your own lapses in good judgment. I can't say too often: "Think before you post."

FOR NEWBIES AND OLD-TIMERS

Here are my five best tips, whether you are just signing up for an account or have been a longtime member.

1) Use a strong password and change it on a regular basis...

2) Review and make appropriate changes to your privacy settings...

3) Be discriminating in your use of Facebook apps...

4) Take control of what others can put on your page...

5) Consider using "friend lists..."

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).