On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You

“Don’t friend me!  I mean it.”  That first sentence of the article alone grabs your attention.  Why don’t you want me to friend you?  So, you start to read the article, in an effort to find out why Jacquielynn Floyd doesn’t want to be friends with you on Facebook and instead you are force-fed a very dull and repetitive article on how posting things like “I just went to the bathroom” might lead to you putting information about yourself that you don’t want others to know.  In the article of course, she doesn’t tell you WHAT exactly you might say that shouldn’t be said, she just gives a very vague idea that you might give more information about yourself than needed.  The article is also lacking any form of support.  No stories about embarrassed people on face book, or someone who had had their identity stolen because of information they put on Facebook.  This lack of evidence leads me to believe that I am in no real danger of sharing too much personal information on Facebook as long as I don’t put my credit card number, social security number, or my mom’s maiden name in any of my ramblings on the site.  Jacquielynn also warns her readers to watch who you friend on Facebook.  Still she lacks any support for her idea of the fact that the person I “haven’t seen in twenty years” and “didn’t really talk to in the first place” is going to try to steal my identity or embarrass me in some way.  Frankly, I felt like I was reading the same paragraph over and over again, it was just worded differently, every version warning me to be careful what I post on Facebook.  Well I have news for Jacquielynn.  I will not post things I don’t want other people to know on Facebook.  Know why?  I am not a complete idiot, that’s why.