Hello and hello again - wow, what a long hard road it has been to post to my blog.
As a first time blogger I am just thrilled to find a page with a publish button!

My first assignment in my Public Relations and Social Media class is to set up a blog and post on the new Facebook privacy settings.
Did it, did it and here it is.

I found some of the Facebook privacy settings to be of interest. I found the information about being tagged and who can then see your account helpful, as well as how to chose an audience for my postings. This exercise made me very aware of how much I have taken for granted about Facebook and just how complacent I have been about a very public profile of myself.

As one working in the fields of domestic and sexual violence I feel these new privacy setting options will be of value to victims/survivors of dv and sa and their families.

I did disable the following two functions:

Invitations to participate in research about Facebook and weekly website updates for admins

I am concerned that the invitation would be generated based on mined info and that the weekly updates to admins is also a data mining function. It may be pie in the sky to think I can limit such activities but I can try at least.

Also, looking at the privacy settings prompted me to reset my security settings.

May all sentient beings know Peace,

Paula