Tip: Logout of Social Networks on Public Computers
In order to maintain your social privacy, one of the important things to do is to make sure you logout when you use public computers. Just yesterday I went to the Verizon Wireless store to check out the new Motorola Droid which is only $149.99 on Amazon compared to $200 in the Verizon Store and I saw it had an app for Facebook. Well, that’s fantastic and it was even already logged in…
I potentially could get all the information about this person if I had wanted, because she left herself logged in. Rather than doing leaving it up to the next person to “maybe” log her out, I instead put a status message up for her stating:
“Don’t leave yourself logged in at the Verizon Store. I am logging you out.”
That seemed like the more appropriate thing to do rather than to
- just log her out and have her possibly do the same thing again or
- have a creepy person use the demonstration phone after me and do something they shouldn’t
This may seem like a major “duh” but obviously people do it, a lot. This girl was born in 1992, went to Easley High School in South Carolina. I didn’t look for anything else, but would you want some random person knowing this?
Tip of the day, please log out when you use Social Networks in public places, you are simply leaving the door wide open for an invasion of privacy.
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