Young Women and Facebook

Here are some other interesting stats regarding young women and Facebook:

  • 21% of women age 18-34 check Facebook in the middle of the night
  • 63% use Facebook as a networking tool
  • 42% think it’s okay to post photos of themselves intoxicated
  • 79% are fine with kissing in photos
  • 58% use Facebook to keep tabs on “frenemies”
  • 50% are fine with being Facebook friends with complete strangers

A study by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research of 1,605 adults was released today. It showed that young women are becoming addicted to their social networks, like Facebook. In other news, an increasing number of single men are now checking their profiles. ;)

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To my Friends and Family: My Privacy Concerns on Facebook

I recently created a new Facebook account for a friend. They were having issues with the whole process of creating a new account: filling out the form, entering the Captcha security code, logging to your e-mail, activating the account via a link code, logging back to your Facebook, going through the process of adding/skipping suggested friends, and finally getting around to adjusting the privacy settings (because we all should now know that you can't rely on the default settings).
My account and another friend's account have the same privacy settings while the newly created account remains with the default privacy settings. Here's what I found after I've added myself and my friend to this new account as a Friend:
  • Using the Facebook app on the iPhone, the new account is able to view my friend's albums and photos.
  • If you don't ignore the friend request from your own account, your posts and comments are visible in the new account's News Feed. I'm still trying to figure this one out. My posts and comments are hidden while my friend's are not.
  • After you ignore the friend request, the new account is still suggesting friends from your own account.
 
I'm still trying to figure out why the results are different. The point of this effort is to re-check your settings if you haven't done so and to not rely on what you've set. Check to make sure the desired privacy configurations did take place. A simple message, poke or adding as a friend can open unwanted information to the public. It is your duty to protect your own privacy and everybody in your network.
If you need to see for yourself, create a new Facebook account using another email address. There are free e-mail accounts you can use from Google, Hotmail or Yahoo. Login to Facebook and add yourself to this new account. Click the Facebook logo to access the News Feed.
 
 
This is what you should see in your new Facebook account.
 
 
If you can see your posts without approving the friend request by this new account, then you have some work to do. 
Please let me know if you've come across similar scenarios or found an answer; I'm still figuring all of these out.
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