ốm. Hoặc, một người bạn có thể kiểm tra bạn ở tại một quán bar mà không hề biết của bạn về nó. (Và, có lẽ, mà không cần bạn thực sự có được.) Loại nói chuyện có thể gây ra bất cứ điều gì từ bối rối nhẹ đến mất bạn bè, mất việc làm, hoặc ly dị. | Changing Privacy Settings 35 home sick. Or a friend can check you in at a bar without your even knowing about it. And perhaps without you actually being there. This kind of cross-talk can cause anything from mild embarrassment to losing friends losing a job or divorce. There are a couple of ways to guard against this. One is to watch what you do and who you do it with. Another is to try to manage the flow of information about what you do. This can partly be accomplished by staying out of potentially embarrassing photos asking friends not to mention some of your whereabouts on Facebook and so on. Another is through managing your Facebook privacy settings. CAUTION Facebook Changes Privacy Settings Often Facebook has made many changes to their privacy settings over the years. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder and CEO says people should just expect less privacy in this digital age and Facebook has played a big part in making this happen for better or worse. At the same time Facebook sometimes reacts to complaints by adding new privacy tools. The result intended or not is that it s very hard to get your privacy settings right and to stay on top of them through all the changes. Even staying off Facebook doesn t help you can still get tagged in a photo checked in someplace or mentioned in a status update that goes out to people who you didn t want to share your location or activities with. Your Facebook privacy settings are complicated and the settings available change frequently so trying to stop news from travelling by using them is never likely to be 100 effective. It s worth a try though and might prevent some hassle or embarrassment at some point. You can put your Facebook friends into Groups such as Family Friends and Work. Then you can have status updates only go out to one or more groups and exclude others. I don t really recommend this though for business use partly because it s complicated and easy to mess up and can lead you into difficulties. Also for business
