Posting stuff on Blogs , Facebooking and elsewhere - be careful....

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Bryan, read my post above yours. You can see photos. Not sure if it was allowed by the user or if it's the default.

[Kal (Andrew)]

This is my facebook page that is public.

You can see my profile pic, my friends, and the groups I am members of. While you can't see any tagged pics of me, I guess I'd still have to be careful of my profile pic and my groups I am a member of.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Originally Posted by Louwai

I don't understand how this insurance company saw photos of this woman on Facebook??
Facebook is not just open to anyone. The individual must allow "access" to heir information. Only then can others see the individuals information & photos.

Unless there is a hacker involved. BUT, if the insurance company used a hacker, they're in the poo too.......

I get what you mean, the others haven't. If you do not have an account on facebook, you *cannot* see any information about anyone. I don't think even Google caches it.

So, given that, it means that the insurance company has a facebook account, which it uses to track down people with. I personally find this offensive. In the US, I doubt any of this information contained in facebook would be admissable as it would be self incriminating.

Dave

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Originally Posted by dpastern

I get what you mean, the others haven't. If you do not have an account on facebook, you *cannot* see any information about anyone. I don't think even Google caches it.

So, given that, it means that the insurance company has a facebook account, which it uses to track down people with. I personally find this offensive. In the US, I doubt any of this information contained in facebook would be admissable as it would be self incriminating.

Dave

Read my post with the story. You can. Maybe only in specific circumstances. Maybe only if the user has disabled some of the FB default security measures, not sure. But we saw photos and this person wasn't a "friend" even, just another FB user.

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

yeah but if you were logged into facebook, yes. Log out of facebook and try it.

Dave

[PCH (Paul)]

Originally Posted by nightstalker

Nothing to be sorry about Dave

Theres some fairly ignorant comments in this thread regarding
understanding mental health issues .

Well I'm sure the Poster knows we aren't all experts in Mental Health issues, unlike yourself I gather, and yet he has sought the advice and suggestions of the people in this forum in general. I don't imagine for one moment he meant only expert opinions were to be offered - otherwise he'd have PM'd you direct

[Louwai (Bryan)]

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Bryan, read my post above yours. You can see photos. Not sure if it was allowed by the user or if it's the default.

Troy,
For "anyone" to see FB photos, the owner of the photos must "allow" people to see them.
In the security settings there are options of for allowing access to photos & other FB page content.
In general they are;
Public;
Friends,
Friends of Friends,
Just me;

It doesn't matter if the "searcher" has an FB account or not. They have to be given "access" by the photo owner.
As noted in other posts, in a general FB search you will only see a Profile Pic of the person & some of their friends.

For your employee to have been able to see the candidates photos, the candidate must have had the security set to "Public", otherwise you would not have been able to see them.

Similarly, if you "block" another user of FB, they disapear completely from your activities. Even if you have mutual friends with the blocked person, when you look at any of the mutual friends info (FB page, their friends list, their photos, etc) the blocked person will not appear to you at all.

I feel that FB is reeeeasonbly safe, as long as one understands & correctly sets the security allocations.

B