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Hiding your MySpace groups can ensure privacy

Hi Folks,

I found the following very informative article in the  May 20th Salt Lake City “Examiner.com”,  http://www.examiner.com/.

With all the flack MySpace catches about member’s information getting into the wrong hands it  is refreshing to know you can have a MySpace site that is secure. And here is how!

Thanks  Terence Waters for this excellent article.

Woody

Hiding your MySpace groups can ensure privacy is kept to a maximum while adding friends
By: Terence Waters

Myspace.com, along with other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, allow for various options to meet new people not just for social reasons but for business networking, knowledge on a particular topic, and marketing perspectives. However, these sites also become havens for thieves to gain information to be used for illegal purposes along with trafficking information you may not want certain people to know, so it is important to safeguard your privacy while using these sites.
One way to do this is to keep your MySpace groups you sign up for private and off your profile, as these can give some people information on things such as your local interests in the Salt Lake Valley along with keeping yourself “anonymous,” somewhat, in the wants of other people.

For example, let’s say you run a local little league baseball citizenship for your local community to promote sports programs and ideas as its chairman. You can use this information to gather further people to support this idea, but if shown, it can also be a potential haven for sex offenders in a way if profiles of some of the players are tied to your MySpace profile. This is just one way that information can be leaked, and it is crucial to keep an open-field while at the same time keeping yourself anonymous in these sites.

How you can do this again is to keep your groups you have signed up private and off your MySpace profile. Techbrave.com gave a great example of this and shows its steps right here.

Here are the steps:

  1. Login to your MySpace profile.
  2. Under the Control Panel, select the “Settings” option at the top.
  3. Then select “Miscellaneous”.
  4. You’ll then need to select the “Groups” subheading under the category.
  5. Uncheck the option specifying “Display Groups on Profile” and then click OK.

This then allows you to keep your profile anonymous in just one way while also keeping your information accessible to those who need it. For more information, please view Techbrave.com’s Article here.

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Author: Terence Waters
Terence Waters is an Examiner from Salt Lake City. You can see Terence’s articles on Terence’s Home Page.

 

 

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