We share so many details of our daily lives online, but where should we draw the line on what we share about ourselves, our family, and our friends? There are some tidbits of personal information that it is best to never share online,Here Top 18 Things You Should Never Share on Social Network them.
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, Urban Chat and Black Planet are just a few of more than 100 Web sites connecting folks around the world who are eager to share their thoughts and feelings. But just like in real life, there’s such a thing as sharing too much information (TMI). It’s easy to get caught up in the social aspects of sites like Facebook, but what you choose to share is there for all to see if you don’t limit who can view your information. The same study by Pew Research found that 40 percent of users have open access to their profiles, allowing anyone to view their information. The other 60 percent restrict access to friends, family and colleagues. Sharing personal information with strangers can be dangerous business, and there are some things you should definitely put on your “do not share” list. We’ll go over 18 of those items in this article.
18.Confidential information
Your right! your personal information such as contact number, address and birthday should be taken with utmost confidentiality. Hence, they should be kept secret and at any circumstances, not be shared. Don’t be a fool. With such personal information, thieves can easily steal your identity which is already rampant nowadays. And I am pretty sure, you will not be happy with it.
17.Relationship Problem
Your personal opinion only matters when someone asks for it. Otherwise, keep it to yourself. That is why it is called “personal†opinion. Don’t just post whatever is in your mind. Hold it back! In case, you really can not help yourself but express that unsolicited opinion, make sure that your facts are straight and with factual basis. But to play safe, just keep your fingers out from the keyboard.
16.Pictures of your exposed and naked body
There is no need for you to show and expose your body. It is really quite inappropriate unless you have that rocking body! Kidding aside, being used as an icon of desire and fantasy is not something that you should be proud of. Take note, despite the age restrictions, children and teenagers alike are also using these social media. If there is still some respect left for yourself, avoid this kind of posting.
15.Vices such as drugs and alcohol
One important thing that you should not also be proud of and let anyone know about it is your bad side. Come on, I don’t think people will be fascinated and delighted if ever you will post something like this.  It is just ridiculous. Remember, once posted, it becomes open to the public. Everyone can see it including your boss, law enforcer and your family who is already embarrassed of what you did. Just recently, a famous boy band has posted something about their pot sessions while on tour, were their fans and other people pleased about it? Hell no! They were ridiculed and law enforces were also investigating where the prohibited drugs came from.
14.Personal opinions
Your personal opinion only matters when someone asks for it. Otherwise, keep it to yourself. That is why it is called “personal†opinion. Don’t just post whatever is in your mind. Hold it back! In case, you really can not help yourself but express that unsolicited opinion, make sure that your facts are straight and with factual basis. But to play safe, just keep your fingers out from the keyboard.
13.Money,bank details, and jewelries
When I said that we are at the peak of social media since everyone is already using it because of its efficiency, it includes robbers, thieves, and burglars. Yup, they are high tech too! If a company uses social media for their marketing to attract and widen their market, the robbers use it to search and widen their target and prospects. Believe me, they also do social networking. It makes their job easier. Hence, don’t boast about your wealth and treasures. You might lose them in an instant or worse you’ll just risk your life and safety.
12.Your Current Location
Many people don’t realize that when they post a status update or a tweet, they may also be revealing their current location. Giving out your location information can be dangerous because it tells potential thieves that you might not be at home. Depending on your privacy settings, that innocent tweet from your vacation spot might give the bad guys the green light they were waiting for to rob your house.
11.Pictures With Geotags
There’s no better road map to your current location than a geotagged picture. Your phone might be recording the location of all pictures you take without you even knowing it. To find out more about why geotags aren’t necessarily as cool as you thought they were and to learn how to nix them from your pix, check out our article on How to Remove Geotags from Pictures.
10.Vacation Plans
basically what you’re saying to social network trolling criminals when you post your vacation plans, vacation photos, and when you location tag yourself while you’re still on vacation. Wait until you are safely home before uploading your vacation pics or talking about your vacation online. Is “checking in” at that fancy restaurant really worth giving up your location information to potential criminals?
Check out our article on How to Disable Facebook Places Location Tracking for tips on how to avoid accidentally checking in somewhere.
9. Information About Your Current Job or Work-related Projects
Talking about work-related things on social networks is a bad idea. Even an innocent status update about how mad you are about missing a deadline on a project could provide valuable information to your competitors that they could leverage against your company.
Does your company have a security awareness training program to help educate users about threats such as these? If not, check out How to Create a Security Awareness Training Program to learn how to develop
8. Personal Conversations
On Facebook, users can send personal messages or post notes, images or videos to another user’s wall. The wall is there for all to see, while messages are between the sender and the receiver, just like an e-mail. Personal and private matters should never be shared on your wall. You wouldn’t go around with a bullhorn announcing a private issue to the world, and the same thing goes on the Internet. This falls under the nebulous world of social networking etiquette. There is no official handbook for this sort of thing, but use your best judgment. If it’s not something you’d feel comfortable sharing in person with extended family, acquaintances, work colleagues or strangers, then you shouldn’t share it on your Facebook wall.
7. Social Plans
Sharing your social plans for everybody to see isn’t a good idea. Unless you’re planning a big party and inviting all the users you’re connected to, it will only make your other friends feel left out. There are also some security issues at stake here. Imagine a scenario where a jealous ex-boyfriend knows that you’re meeting a new date out that night. What’s to keep the ex from showing up and causing a scene or even potentially getting upset or violent? Nothing, that’s what. If you’re planning a party or an outing with a group of friends, send a personal “e-vite” for their eyes only and nobody is the wiser. If you’re trying to cast a wide net by throwing out an idea for a social outing, just remember that anyone who has access to your profile sees it.
6. Linking Sites
With 51 percent of social network users taking advantage of more than one site, there’s bound to be some crossover from one to the other, especially if you have the sites linked. You may post something you find innocuous on Facebook, but then it’s linked to your LinkedIn work profile and you’ve put your job at risk. If you link your various profiles together, be aware that what you post in one world is available to the others. In 2009, a case of an employee caught lying on Facebook hit the news. The employee asked off for a weekend shift because he was ill and then posted pictures on his Facebook profile of himself at a party that same weekend. The news got back to his employer easily enough and he was fired. So if you choose to link your profiles, it’s no longer a “personal life” and “work life” scenario.
5. Company Information
You may be dying to tell the world about your new work promotion, but if it’s news that could be advantageous to one of your company’s competitors, then it’s not something you should share. News of a planned expansion or a big project role and anything else about your workplace should be kept private. Sophos, a security software company, found that 63 percent of companies were afraid of what their employees were choosing to share on social networking sites [source:ReadWriteWeb]. If you want to message it out, be selective and send private e-mails. Many companies are so serious about not being included in social networking sites that they forbid employees from using sites like Facebook at work. Some IT departments even filter the URLs and block access to these sites altogether so employees aren’t tempted to log on.
4. Photos of Your Kids
Social networking sites are a common place for people to share pictures of their families, but if you’re one of the 40 percent of users who don’t restrict access to your profile, then those pictures are there for everyone to see. It’s a sad fact, but there are a lot of predators who use the Internet to stalk their prey. If you post pictures of your family and couple that with information like, “my husband is out of town this weekend” or “little Johnny is old enough to stay at home by himself now,” then your children’s safety could be at risk. Nobody ever thinks it will happen to them until it does, so safety first is a good default mode when using social networking sites. Just like with other private matters, send family photos only to a select group of trusted friends and colleagues who you know won’t share them.
3. Your Password
This one really seems like a no-brainer, but if it didn’t happen, then Facebook probably wouldn’t feel the need to list it in the No. 1 slot on its list of things you shouldn’t share. Even sharing the password with a friend so he or she can log on and check something for you can be a risk. This is especially true with couples who feel like there’s enough trust to share these kinds of things. Here’s another scenario for you: You give your boyfriend your Facebook password because he wants to help you upload some vacation photos. A couple of months later, the relationship sours, he turns into a not-so-nice guy and then there’s a person out there who doesn’t like you and has your login information. Time to cancel your account and get a new one. If you’d have kept that information private to begin with, you could simply move on with your life. Now you have a compromised profile, and if you link to other sites or profiles, all that information is at risk as well. Keep your password to yourself, no matter what, and you never have to worry about it.
2. Password Hints
Most Web sites that contain secure personal information require a password also have at least one password hint in case you forget. It typically goes like this: You sign up for something like online banking and you get a login and password and then choose a security question for when you forget your password. What’s the name of your first pet? What’s your mother’s maiden name? What was your high school mascot? What’s the name of the first street you lived on? Including any of these details on a Facebook wall or status update may not seem like a big deal, but it could provide an identity thief with the last piece of the puzzle needed to hack into your bank account. Think before you post anything that could compromise this information.
1. Anything You Don’t Want Shared
You can select all the privacy settings you want on social networking sites, but the fact is, if you post it, it has the potential to be seen by someone you don’t want seeing it. You know all those fun Facebook applications, quizzes and polls you can’t help but fill out? A study performed by the University of Virginia found that of the top 150 applications on Facebook, 90 percent were given access to information they didn’t need in order for the app to function. So when you sign up to find out what sitcom star you most identify with, the makers of that poll now have access to your personal information. It’s anybody’s guess where it goes from there. Social networking is all about sharing, so something you think is in confidence can easily be shared and then shared again, and before you know it, someone you don’t even know has access to something private. “When in doubt, leave it out” is a good motto to follow. And always remember that anything you share has the potential to be leaked in some way.
