[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by Halibut

In fairness, Facebook in particular frequently changes its privacy settings and deliberately leaves its users in the dark. You have to find out through a news article.



There are many jobs now in marketing and social media where applicants must provide links to demonstrate their personal online presence and mastery of same. As a fuddy duddy, it's kind of shocking to me that people would be willing to share that -- it's not just their own info, it's everyone they talk to and those people talk to ...

Back when Facebook was new my husbands security classes told them not to join it as it would affect their government clearance. I don't know if they have changed their stance on that to keep up with the times but that is what they said then. As a high clearance was helpful in getting good jobs in the industry neither one of us ever joined and since retirement last year haven't yet. However friends think we are nuts not to join in,