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Facebook is a very powerful influencer when it comes to finding information and shifting perceptions. However, it’s also a very public platform accessible by many. As such, there are certain bits of vital information that you might want to consider omitting from your profile.
- Birthday
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Your birthday is one piece of the missing puzzle besides your name and address that can unravel other important details about yourself, such as your bank account and personal details.
- Phone number
Why make yourself an easy target for scammers? A definite no-no.
- Most of your “friends”
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Humans can maintain approximately 150 stable relationships, according to Oxford psychology professor, Robin Dunbar. Thus, a spring cleaning is needed on the friend list and unfriend the dead wood!
- Photographs of your child/young family member
There are many people with malicious intentions lurking out there, so we wouldn’t want to put our young ones in unnecessary danger by posting up too many pictures of them. Better to be safe than sorry!
- Current location
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People tend to forget that tagging your location gives away your current whereabouts and that of course, is a bug safety and security hazard!
- Your relationship status
We get it, you found yourself a new beau, and are itching to celebrate this new relationship by shouting it out to the world! One word of advice: don’t. It may not work out, and the result of changing “in a relationship” to “single” will make you feel worse than you already do.
- Boarding pass pictures
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You’re excited to finally go on that holiday you’ve been planning, and post a picture of your boarding pass and your passport to let your friends know what you’re up to. Stop right there! The barcode on your boarding pass is unique only to you, and exposing such information to public can be damaging. Keep the boarding pass to yourself!
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