Social media oversharing is a real problem. I have friend who constantly must share every little detail, from weddings to pimples on their butts. One thing that really gets me is when they put up THOUSANDS of photos of their children. These kids are too young to consent, yet their whole lives are going to be public domain.
I think most people will answer no, including myself. I don't really trust many people anyway to be honest, so I'm certainly not going to trust a person I've never met, and probably never will.
Completely agree with L_B on this matter! My Facebook friends are all people I actually know, yet I'm still careful about what I post.
This sort of thing worries me a lot. I have young nieces and nephews and the idea of taking a picture of them to put on social media for the world to see does not fill me with feelings that it's something I must do, mainly because I wouldn't want the world seeing them. I have a friend who posts hundreds of pictures weekly of her young cousins on social media and it really worries me. Ironically most of her friends are saying to her to make sure only people on her friends list can see the pictures, but then when you're putting them on a public domain, doesn't that not make the whole situation just that little bit ironic?
Of course not would be my answer but I do believe those I know in person and some of those that I am sure they know my personal friends so I can ask them to tell me something more on them. Usually I do not care much about these people. Recently I started deleting some of them randomly and I got some weird response from them afterwards. I just deleted one of my personal friends. His comments are annoying to me and frankly he posts stupid music and he is boring. He is always sending me some videos of some stupid stuff that i do not want to see. So, not that I do not trust them I do not consider them.
It is common sense that you shouldn't trust anyone in internet nowadays. Especially in financial issues I like to do things myself. It is hard to tell if people is trusted unless you haven't seen him/her face to face.
This is exactly what I am talking about. Also most people don't understand Facebook settings so they post this as public. Who knows what will happen in the future, just because you click "friends only" doesn't mean it's not going to get out there.
I think there are already ways in which people not on a friends list can see what other people post and stuff. It really worries me this stuff does. Does anyone worry about identity theft relating to what is posted on social media?
As usual you have started a topic on a forum by making unqualified statements, generalizations and using what is known as "weasel words". To answer the question however, trust isn't an issue for me with social media. If I can't trust somebody they aren't my friend and if I don't know or interact with a person in real life I don't interact with them on social media. I deleted my Facebook account (yes deleted, not deactivated) because I the stuff that showed up in the news feed was usually garbage.
I don't think the statements he is saying in this thread are untruthful, I mean stuff like this does happen and there are people with with friends lists of over 1,000 people. Now I may not be the most popular person but I seriously doubt one person can be friends with that many people in an actual friends friends way in the traditional sense. Acquaintances I can understand but even then I can imagine a number of around 100, not something like 1,000. Also the classic view of a thief of burglar is that they are dumb people but don't underestimate them because most are pretty smart and do their homework. For instance when Google Maps and Street View first came people criminals were using that to get a closer look at the properties that wanted to do over.
