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Your Privacy Setting

Do you ever check your privacy setting, or the update emails you receive when there are new changes to these settings? Privacy settings allow people to control what information is shared on online platforms. According to Pew Research Center, 9% of adults reported they always read a company’s privacy policy before agreeing to terms and conditions. What about the other percentage? What do these people do? Are you part of this larger percentage? People need to understand that a digital footprint is information that exists online about them and their activities. Everything that they do or post will be there, no matter what. Therefore, knowing about privacy setting will help them protect their information.

Source: USA Today a screenshot of Facebook's privacy settings on a smartphone

Sometimes I get emails about new updates, but at that moment I say I will review them later before going to bed. Making small steps can help us protect our privacy. Not only will it protect us, but it will protect our family members and students. For example, many Facebook users do not know that they can only allow their friends to only see their friends list. This gives people more privacy. You do not want the public to know all your interests and friends. At a certain point, we need that privacy to be kept to us. In the article from the Washington Post another privacy setting that people can do is to not allow the social media app to recognize the faces of people in photos and videos. I believe many people would not want all pictures shared on their page. Therefore, informing us about these small privacy steps can make a change.

My social media

This week, I had the opportunity to explore more about my privacy settings on social media platforms that I have an account with: Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube. I was surprised to discover that in the settings of my Instagram page I have a feature that would allow everyone to tag me. By having an option like this, anyone can share a picture or anything and tag me without my permission. With consideration of this, my family follows me, and I have a lot of respect towards my friends. Therefore, I am careful with what I share on social media. As a result, I have changed this feature to allow only people I follow to tag me. On the other hand, I have been more protected with using Snapchat. Under the settings, I have the “See my location” feature only available for my viewing.

Source: SnapChat screenshot by Jesenia Meza

 


Source: Instagram screenshot by Jesenia Meza



YouTube shares these small steps to protect our privacy. People have the decision of making their videos public or private. If educators want to use this platform in their classroom and want their students to feel safe using it, then they can make videos private. Only people with the link and view it. 

Source: YouTube

 

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  1. NMZumpanoApril 17, 2022 at 6:51 AM

    Thanks for sharing the importance of privacy and checking these settings regularly.

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  2. Herlinda VargasApril 17, 2022 at 9:55 AM

    Hi Jesenia,

    Wow I had no clue that there was an option on Instagram where you can let anyone tag you. No wonder I've been getting tagged by spam accounts. I will make sure to change that today. Just like you, I also don't let anyone view my location on Snapchat. I have seen the Snapchat map where you can see where everyone is on the map and I find that so creepy! You can zoom in to see what street exactly they are on. I would never want anyone to know so much information about me. Sometimes when I go out, I'll post what place it was, but even with that I have to be careful that I don't post too much.

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  3. Joe Waski's DU Masters Program BlogApril 17, 2022 at 2:17 PM

    Hi Jessenia,

    Great post! It was very informing about privacy settings. Yes, I part of the larger percentage of people that do not fully read privacy agreements. I have not investigated my privacy settings on most of my social media accounts, however on Facebook, which is my most active social media account I have changed the settings a while back that doesn't allow the public to see my posts only people that are on my friends list are able to see my posts. I am always concerned about leaving a digital footprint and have had to delete posts that people have tagged me in that I found to be a little controversial or not in good taste. I try to avoid drama on social media. Thank you for sharing.

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