If you have read the article about dealing with relationship issues on Facebook, you maybe glad that ending a friendship may be a bit easier on the soul. Let’s take a look at how you’d end a friendship on Facebook properly.

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By now we probably have scared you away because the amount of things you haven’t done to protect yourself from the age of the social media world. However, you may find this to be much easier to digest now than when something goes wrong. By now you should be careful about what to enter into your Facebook profile and status. However, how do you exactly use Facebook? Are you ones than roam around installing every applications you could get your hands on, playing every game online that’s available?

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Part 3 of this series gets into another peril of social networking. Whilst the first 2 parts dealt with friend requests (from the outside), you’ll also need to deal with the existing friends (on the inside).

By now, if have collected alot of friends and you thought, “this is cool. The net is about sharing, I share my info, and my friends so the same, we get to be in touch and know what’s happening with everyone including birthdays, email address or mobile phone numbers”. Right, you have probably entered most of the interesting info including that time you kissed your best friend’s girlfriend in the Favorite TV show column. But what do you know about the data that’s being stored?
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Hey would you normally hand over your private information such as names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, email address and other personal information to strangers? Of course not. But wait, you may already have!!! Facebook is the world’s largest online social network that boost 250,000 new members each day, and 60,80,100 millions of users that’s growing by days. Chances are we enjoyed the site because we can find out what’s happening to our friends and family.

If you read part 1 of the article you’ll know how easy it is to gain access to other people’s profile. Well, here’s another simple exploits…
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 I came across one of many sites with questions such as the following: “Kristina Vi June 25, 2008 – 11:25am: does anybody know how i can HACK into a private Facebook account?” Looking at the messages I see a growing trend of people who desired to get into other people’s business. Perhaps they’re acquaintance that aren’t close enough to be friends, or they’re looking for their potential dates’ secret profile, or worse they’re after your identity for identity theft. In the coming few articles, we’ll look at the implication of Social Networking as it relates to your privacy, what to look for and how to be careful. We’ll look into real scenarios of how your security maybe compromised, unless you’re careful.

The 64,000 dollar question: what does it take to gain access to someone’s profile?

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Facebook is a good platform to post some of the best videos especially when they relate to your friends or family. I also find that Facebook video supports higher resolution upload than YouTube. Whilst grabbing YouTube video is a breeze, leeching Facebook video is a little harder. Finally here’s how you’ll do it…

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