Most Hidden dangers of Facebook

 Posted by ADIL MUNEEB,

 The last 3-4 years have observed a tremendous positive
 growth ladder in the success rate of Facebook, a social networking website.
 Phenomenal success of Facebook has made it the No.1 social networking website presently.
 In fact, it has beat Google by the maximum number of visitor visits for one entire week.
 But things always go the same way as one may think of.
 Both positive and negative experiences go head to head.
 Facebook is also not flawless. Recently,
 many flaws were revealed Most of the Facebook flaws are in it's
 privacy policies and accounts settings. Sharing information may not
 be all that great through this social networking site. It can happen 
that marketing efforts of Facebook may well lead to serious threat
 to account holders' privacy policies. This article discusses about
 some of the most important hidden dangers of Facebook.

 Danger # 1:

 Sharing information with 3rd parties As per
 Facebook policy (last updated, 2010),
 "When the user connects with some website or application via Facebook,
 that particular site or application will have permission to access
 the general information about the connected user.
" According to Facebook's dictionary,
 "General Information"
 refers to information about the user while getting full access to his/her profile,
 friend list, user IDs, connections, gender, etc. In fact,
 the site or app can able to view any of the information being shared using
 "Everyone" privacy setting. This is also the default privacy setting.
 It takes only two to get connected, so your privacy settings Because
 it takes two to connect, the user's privacy settings can control the 
visibility factor of the connection on profile page.
 those who are uncomfortable with the public visibility of the connection status,
 they should not make the connection or try to remove it.

 Danger # 2:

 Privacy settings revert to minimal safety in default mode after every
 single redesigning phase It was last March when private email addresses
 of many Facebook users were revealed in the public domain of Facebook page.
 This was an irritating fact for many. However,
 the glitch got resolved at a later stage by Facebook administration body.

 Danger # 3:

 Ads available on Facebook ads may well contain malware Of late,
 an event invitation notice from Facebook was sent to nearly 2,300 facebook friends
 of a reputed business tycoon.
 It actually was a scam and those responded to the ad got thier
 account hacked by some unknown hacker.
 These sort of ads are available in plenty through Facebook. Most of these are scams.
 So, think and judge carefully before responding to these ads.

 Danger # 4:

 Facebook friends unknowingly make an user vulnerable Facebook recently
 patched a serious security bug which allowed the profile users to snoop 
silently through a user's private chat engine and even view all the pending friend
 requests. It was such a serious security threat that Facebook even disabled the chat
 engine for quite a few days before patching the bug.

 Danger # 5:

 Fake profiles being created by scammers This keeps on happening.
 However, it is more common with celebrity profiles.
 Many scammers create fake profiles and try to fool the Facebook users.
 Such a sort of scenario can result in spreading negative news and rumors about
 celebrity personalities. Till date,
 Facebook has been unable to bring out any meaningful solution to this case.