Facebook Safety!

You really need to be discreet about the things you showcase on your facebook page such as your private details, your photos, your thoughts and preferences; they can be used against you.

Please, take into account what you put on your Facebook page irrespective of the therapeutic feeling facebook offers.  Use your privacy control to control what status to post. Don’t reveal more than what is necessary to roaming eyes.

• For the married, avoid posting suspicious photos that could make people feel you are flirting or having an affair with someone else other than your spouse. 
• Limit the number of people you accept, you may need to delete or ignore some friend request. Don't be too eager to meet the 5000 friend limit since the 5000 friend limit is not a challenge. 
• Reduce the constant tag of where you are. Experts have advised not to confine our lives to predictable routines because that’s how criminals know when and where to attack. Avoid announcing to everyone when you are away from home (such as 'off to the creek') and when you are alone at home (home alone! hussy is off to England, again!). Avoid “check-in” services while at your house or posting your address on facebook or any other social site. Criminals are on the lookout for preys on Facebook.  
• Writing on your facebook status that you are having a party could result to getting more guest than you can cater for.
• Avoid adding your employers and colleagues to your friend’s list. Irrespective of your relationship with them, it is advisable to keep your professional life separate from your personal life. This will help you to express yourselves more on your page when you keep your page free from work-related people (you can add them to your linkedIn). 
• Avoid Complaining about your boss or writing you hate your job and want to leave, you might get your wish.
• Yes, it’s your facebook page and you're entitled to write whatever you think or feel at any moment, but writing bad reports about anybody on your page is really not nice. Keep your opinions and thoughts about others to yourself or express your feelings to your close families and friends not to the public on facebook. It could be that you heard from a grape vine or saw a post about a person, don’t just write what you heard or repost what you saw on someone else wall, do a thorough research before you post anything since most of the time these things are completely false. Your friends and fans are viewing your status.
• Don't be too critical about people as it may send a wrong picture of you to your friends and fans and this could alter their thoughts about you. Your false or critical status about others could hunt you in future.
• Some people say you should not provide your real birthday dates on your facebook page, most times when asked to provide a numerical password, the first thing that comes into your mind is probably a variation of your birth date. I really won't agree to that as I will not feel much fun when wished a happy birthday on a date that's not really my birthday. You can consider not revealing the year you were born if you have to reveal your birthday or avoid using your birth date figures as password to your emails, websites and online accounts.
• Try to resist the urge of sharing photos of every aspects of your lives (such as pictures of your home, furniture, pets, cars, your kids school (never say what school they go to), what you gave your spouse on your wedding anniversary, your latest purchase, etc). Though it could be fun or a heart-warming status that is warmly shared with friends but this could stir up unnecessary jealousy in the mind of some friends as they would feel you have a better life than them.