Illusion of Privacy

It’s funny that we had to set up accounts this week for these two websites. I had thought about setting up a “homepage” just for myself. I feel like I know just enough to be dangerous! Just kidding…although I might take a closer look at the StumbleUpon website and see what I can do. A long time ago…maybe a couple of years, I set up a LinkedIn account through my work. I changed it to a personal one for this assignment. I recently had the opportunity to attend a series of webinars on social networking but my schedule did not allow it. I may try to see if they have any hard copies of these and see what everyone was talking about.

I have had a Facebook account for a while and I do find it very interesting. I know that my privacy is not completely protected, but I feel somewhat safe on it. I try not to share too much information. Fortunately, I can be a snide person and get my point across without having to share too much!! After looking at some of what my friends post, I really watch what I do. I don’t want to become one of those people that post my every move and every thought. How dangerous is that? Really, though, what about those people that post where they are and what they are doing. Is this not an invitation saying, “I’m not at home…come rob me.”

On LinkedIn, I’ve been invited to join by a few of the people in my network of professional people. I have always turned them down because I really didn’t think that I had the time to do any of this. After setting this up and looking at some of my peers sites, I think that I will update mine and continue with this site.

StumbleUpon looks like just the website that I want to use to post things about myself and have the web design pages just for me! I think I’m going to like this site!

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/