I’m not a happy camper today as someone hacked my facebook.  Sure, I’m to blame as I totally forgot I set up a weak password for it.  But to make matters more interesting, msnbc.com reports the collection and publishing of 100 million facebook user’s information.  I sure hope you set your privacy options, because if you didn’t, even if you switched privacy settings now, people may still have any information that you published beforehand.  To make matters more interesting, you can now be found if any of your friends were searchable.  Let’s make this easy.  If you don’t want people to know, don’t put it on facebook.  Consider facebook a public billboard.  I’ve seen people post status updates of them going on vacation.  Is this really a wise idea?  Hmm…somebody’s not home…oh, did they publish their address…reminds me of the crooks from Home Alone and how easy they would have pulled off their heists if it weren’t for a kid named Kevin.  Be safe and be smart – try to limit the information that you put on facebook and remember, information is power that can certainly come back to bite you.

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