Weird FaceBook Consequences

I have warned in the past about posting stuff on Facebook and other social media sites.  You have to be careful about what you put out there. 

I have a personal Facebook page and a business page, and the other day I posted a comment that I thought was going to my wall, but ended up on my business page.  I didn't realize that, if I log into my business page and then walk away from my Mac, then, even if I log out of my browser and come back to Facebook, I'm still logged in as a business user (I know.  There's a setting for that.  I've already fixed it.).  My fault, and, hopefully, I won't do that again.

I doubt there will be any repercussions from that mistake. It was not that kind of post.

However, the news this morning is that a young lady in Berlin was going to celebrate her 16th birthday with a party, and used FB to invite her closest, real life (not FB ) friends.  Only problem was, she wasn't careful.

Go ahead.  Chuckle if you want.  The only problem is that you may do something like that one day if you aren't careful.  However, no matter how hard you try, there will be a time when you aren't paying attention and you will slip, just like I did.

That's one of the real dangers of social media.  There are people all over the world just waiting for that slip.

Be careful out there.

 

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  • 6/9/2011 4:09 AM IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE wrote:
    I didn't realize that, if I log into my business page and then walk away from my Mac, then, even if I log out of my browser and come back to Facebook, I'm still logged in as a business user.

    An awful lot of people don't seem to realize that whenever they use a public access computer at an Internet café, they must log out of whichever account they are using online -- Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Facebook, Twitter, or what-have-you -- in order to clear the log-in cookies.
    That's one of the real dangers of social media. There are people all over the world just waiting for that slip.

    Yeah, and that's why I don't have a Facebook account -- and I don't intend getting one either! (Meh.)
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