Timeline for What are the real physical risks of casual social media publishing?
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| Nov 20, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | gerrit | Point (3) is problematic because of privacy and because it's terribly embarrassing for the children later on. Do not post pictures of people too young to consent. | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 17:24 | comment | added | Nomad | OT: How about Facebook hiring psychologists and psychiatrists to see how they can manipulate you in coming back? That's what really freaked me out. | |
| Jun 15, 2018 at 17:16 | answer | added | Steve Sether | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 21:49 | comment | added | Mathieu K. | @Barmar, You're quite right that you can do it directly by email, but you may still want to omit certain details, as you have no control over the security precautions taken by your recipients or their mail hosts. (And I think the reasons we used blogs rather than email were [1] that blogs allowed a sort of community via the comments section and [2] that email inboxes at the time were very limited in size, to the point that the pictures from a single blog post could fill them completely.) | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 16:33 | comment | added | Barmar | @MathieuK. Of course, if you only want to share directly with friends, you can just use private email. I don't use any of the popular social media platforms (FB, Twitter, Instagram) myself, but much of the point of them is the dynamic sharing that they permit, so you don't have to keep track of your friends yourself. | |
| Apr 22, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | Mathieu K. | @Barmar, in the days of blogging, the cautious way to do this was to post as anonymously as possible and give the URL to your friends. That way, a random stranger on the Internet knows nothing useful—no names (initials, maybe), no precise locations, no photos of faces—but your friends can keep up with what's going on in your life. (If you paid and/or you've given them significant personal info on signup, there's always a chance the service itself will be compromised, leaking your info.) Facebook wants users to use their real names, so that puts a bit of a damper on this approach. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 20:39 | vote | accept | WoJ | ||
| Apr 21, 2018 at 13:37 | comment | added | forest | The real issue is that it makes it easier to manipulate you, or gives people dirt that can be used against you later. You do not have to worry about random people abducting your children because you post a picture of them online. That's just silly. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 12:01 | comment | added | Barmar | @SargeBorsch Doesn't that defeat the purpose of posting? People post this stuff to share their life with their friends. If you post anonymously, how will your friends know it's you? | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 12:00 | comment | added | Barmar | I think you're tilting at a windmill. No amount of warning about dangers is going to get your family to stop. Social media has become a part of modern society. You'd have as much luck as trying to get them to stop driving by pointing out the number of traffic accidents. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 19:54 | comment | added | Derek Elkins left SE | @WoJ The tangible facts are that literally on the order of a billion people are doing such things. That makes it pretty clear that for the typical person, the increase in risk, if any, is negligible. Even ignoring the overt benefits (i.e. what they would give as their reasons), it can also mitigate physical risk. For example, letting people know where you are and where you plan to be can make it clear when you're missing and where you were last known to be. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 18:46 | answer | added | Sumurai8 | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 17:59 | comment | added | Display Name | between "explicitly put information to the world (typically professional data…)" and "do not put anything", there's also "post it anonymously / from a throwaway account, and carefully double-check for absence of any personal data before you put it out". | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 16:23 | comment | added | Chris H | ... Careless acceptance of friend requests also means that FB friends who you wouldn't trust IRL know a lot about you. The reason I have friends not on FB is that they're teachers who've been burnt by their students seeing up fake profiles in the names of their colleagues to harvest embarrassing info | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 16:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/987360660974686208 | ||
| Apr 20, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | Chris H | @mbomb007 that's true, but it's not just friends you're worried about: If I click on many individuals in the same Facebook groups as me I can see quite a lot (and they can see quite a lot of my pictures but I'm careful about what I post, knowing that much of it is visible to friends without accounts and therefore to everyone). | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 15:57 | comment | added | barbecue | Feeding society's ridiculous thirst for the latest in paranoid fearmongering... | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 15:09 | answer | added | mbomb007 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 14:34 | comment | added | mbomb007 | It's probably notable that many people who are friends and following on something like Facebook may already know where you live. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 14:00 | answer | added | Chris H | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 13:48 | comment | added | Chris H | Look at this cat standing in my kitchen in front of the window with the broken latch -- i.e. consider the background. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 13:32 | comment | added | WoJ | @KonradRudolph: no, I have subjective views which I would like to validate or invalidate with tangible facts. I would be glad to change my mind faced with some data points. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 13:27 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | You seem to have made up your mind and are now hunting for evidence to confirm your conclusions. Usually one should proceed the other way round: going from evidence to conclusion. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 12:43 | answer | added | Limit | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 12:40 | answer | added | Tobi Nary | timeline score: 30 | |
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