This document discusses potential safety issues related to oversharing on Facebook, including identity theft and abduction. It notes that identity theft affects millions per year and that a crime is reported to Facebook every 40 minutes. To help stay safe, it recommends only accepting friend requests from people you know, limiting shared location information, and restricting posts to friends only. Resources with more information are also provided.
4. What can accepting friend
requests from strangers result
in?
Identity theft
Abduction
5. Identity theft
Identity theft is one of the most
widely committed crimes in the
world, affecting millions of
people a year in varying degrees
of severity.
6. Abduction
A crime linked to Facebook is
reported to police every 40
minutes. Last year, officers
logged 12,300 alleged offences
involving the vastly popular
social networking site.
7. Solutions:
Make sure that you only accept
people that you know
Delete everybody from your
friend list that you dont
personally know
Dont always tag your
whereabouts
Dont upload pictures/videos
that can put you in trouble
Make sure that all your posts are
available only to your friends