Privacy Settings

1. Bio

2. Photos

3. Tweet Privacy

4. Email notifications

5. Add location to my tweets

6. Display Media that may contain sensitive content

Explore privacy settings using Twitter on the following:

1. Why would you protect your tweets?

2. Why should you hide your location?

1.Discover privacy settings in LinkedIn and discuss with your friends , which aspect is important and explain why/why not?

2.Should your profile be public or private on LinkedIn, answer why and why not?

3. Does picture uploads matter in LinkedIn considering it is for job opportunities?

?

a. Industry

b. Education

c. Experience

d. Interests

e. Contact details

f. Summary of you

g. Skills and expertise

h. Above All

4.Which information from the list should be public / private?

5. What should you not share on your LinkedIn

profile?

a. Relationship status

b. Your day-to-day activities

c. Inappropriate images

d. Above all

Now, think why?

1.Check your privacy settings in Facebook and investigate whether it is update or not?

1.Did you know Facebook automatically display your photos publicly even though your settings are private?

2. Assume, privacy settings does not exists online. Everything you post i.e. comments, picture, videos, status will be public. List at least 5 things which should not be shared with everyone?

3. What impact would it have on your educational, personal and professional aspect when sharing confidential information excessively ?

4. Amongst your friends, discuss the importance of privacy setting. Try to include or give examples of the worst scenarios maybe drawn from your own personal experiences.

5. Also, question yourself the following:

a. Who can send you the messages?

b. Who can add you as friend?

c. Who can find you on Facebook?

d. Who can see what you post/update on your profile?

e. Who can see you contact details on you profile?

f. Who can see your tagged photos, videos or status?

g. Is your Facebook profile searchable on Google?

For question 5 points, answer with: 1. Everyone 2.Only me 3. Just friends. 4. Mutual friends 5. Friends and networks

Let’s suppose, you have uploaded a photo which are inappropriate, indecent or something ‘very personal/private’ on Flickr. You have shared with only few people you know, however the pictures has become public because of default privacy setting.

1. What are the consequences of accidently

sharing images as such with everyone? What cultural issues would occur? How would you deal with it? More importantly, how should this be

avoided? Is photo sharing websites important?

2. As Flickr allows you to share photos, write down should not be uploaded there?

3. a. In your opinion, what are the advantages of

not allowing others to add photo of you?

b. Why should/should not others share your photos on Flickr?

Discuss with your friends and see if they agree?

4. When should you choose to make the images public?

a. Showing your creativityb. Every time

Like other social networks, profile on YouTube can be private or public. Lets suppose, you upload videos in YouTube but you keep them private…

1. Is it necessary to have an YouTube account, if your videos are not public?

REFERENCES Some of the learning materials content are extracted from ‘This is me’. http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/this-is-me/

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