1. You have no privacy; all your friends can see your photos and pass them on to their friends and so forth. People can read every post that you have made, your family can see what you have been up to and gossip can start to be spread around.
2. People can say nasty things about you. Although you can stop them on your facebook, you can’t stop them from saying things to other people about you.
3. By providing too much information such as photos, date of birth, address, phone number; people can stalk you. In the most serious cases this has lead to molestation, stalking, rape or murder.
4. People can easily access you details, even credit card details and your address. They can also trace where about you have been using facebook, and use this information to contact you.
5. People do get cyber bullied. It is not necessary and as a result it has been documented many times that people commit suicide or contemplating committing suicide.
6. You can’t take back something you have said on facebook. Once you click send it’s available for all to read. It is like a trace leading back to you. This is how police track down cyber bullies.
7. Not many people know how to use facebook the right way. They don’t know how to be private, they use it to bully, show off their status and they don’t know how to ignore or block people. They also are not aware of the risks and dangers of having facebook.
8. Facebook is very easily hackable. When people hack it they can pretend to be you and spread rumours and false information around and you can be blamed. You can also lose a lot of friends.
9. Your friends and family members will be able to snoop around and know what is happening in your life at all times. I’m sure you really want them seeing what you got up to with that guy on the weekend.
10. You will waste many hours because Facebook is addictive for most people. There is a case of man had an online relationship on facebook and he got so addicted to messaging a girl that all he would think about until he got home was messaging her. She didn’t reply for a few days and the man couldn’t handle it anymore so he shot himself. This is a true story.
These are the ten things I hate about facebook. The point of me outlining these risks isn’t to make everyone delete their facebook but to make everyone more aware of the risks of having facebook. it is important that people are informed, and by being informed you can change the way people use facebook.
I would like to share some scenarios
Users of Facebook have been warned they are putting themselves at risk of identity fraud by posting even a handful of their details online. According to the BBC's consumer rights television program Watchdog, fraudsters can open bank accounts and receive credit cards armed simply with the information found on a user's Facebook page.
This is a true story that happened to a lady;
A while back, she received a friend request from a guy who she had been acquainted with in high school. They weren't in the same circle of friends back then, but shared a few classes and passing conversations together over the years. She decided to add him and started to reminisce about "the good old days" and catch up.
Soon enough they found themselves messaging each other just about every day and he soon asked her out on a date. She enjoyed our conversations together and thought that they might actually hit it off. Unfortunately, the in-person rendezvous was a complete disaster.
Afterward, she decided to back off and not speak to him for a while. She hoped that he would get the hint that she wasn't really interested in continuing the chats. She kept bumping into him around town. He seemed to catch her at random locations like the grocery store or the gym. Strangely, they had never run into each other like that before they started speaking online. The lady realized that these were no accidental meetings. Every time he ran into her, she had just mentioned going to that place on my Facebook status.
He had been tracking her via the internet for over a month after that date. Lesson learned: watch what you say on social networking sites, because you have no idea who may be reading.
BE CAREFUL ON FACEBOOK.
