Do…
1. Use Facebook to stay in touch with friends and make new ones.
2. Use Facebook to create your best image, since anyone with access to an ”.edu” account can see your page. Google yourself every once in a while to check on your public image.
3. Use Facebook to get involved with the campus community and learn what’s happening.
4. Use Facebook to advertise your organization’s events.
5. Use Facebook’s privacy settings on your account to monitor who can look at your profile.
6. Use Facebook’s customer support page since it contains valuable information about privacy controls and other important safety information.
7. Use good judgment with your Facebook account and postings! What do you want future employers, administrators, faculty, and maybe even your parents to see?
8. Remember that WVU administrators are not monitoring Facebook, but may act on any violations of law or University policy if brought to their attention. Just because you don’t want them to look at your page doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t.
Don’t…
1.
Post overly personal information like cell phone numbers, dorm address, class schedule, etc. unless you feel comfortable being contacted by strangers. Students have been stalked by uninvited viewers of their Facebook pages when they posted overly personal information.
2.
Post pictures of your friends without their permission. It may be considered a legitimate invasion of their privacy, or may jeopardize their chances for a job, or their scholarships.
3.
Forget that once you post something, it may live forever, even if you take it down.
Think that Facebook is the only website of concern. These same principles apply to MySpace.com, Friendster.com, etc.
4.
Use Facebook to send SPAM or chain letters.Not only are SPAM and chain letters annoying, they are usually sent to gather your personal information. A chain letter is created by one person and then sent to others. But every time you forward a chain letter, there is code in the e-mail that sends all of the e-mail addresses back to the creator of the chain letter. So don't give up your personal information or that of your friends by forwarding the e-mail. I promise you will not have bad luck for 7 years!
5.
Poke incessantly -- it's annoying!I think this one is pretty straightforward. Poking is a way to let someone know you are trying to get his or her attention. But there is no message attached, just the fact that you received a poke. Can you imagine if someone sat next to you and poked you all day ... it would drive me crazy!
6.
Fall for Phishing scams.Phishing is the act of attempting to trick users into divulging sensitive and personal information by directing them to a fake website that collects things like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. Facebook has encountered several phishing scams where you will receive a link in your inbox directing you to a new page that looks like Facebook but requires you to log in again. DON'T DO IT! At the log-in page, the hacker is now waiting for you to type in your username and password so they can collect it. Hackers usually do this to steal your identity and break into other accounts where the username and password may be the same (such as your online banking account). If you are redirected to a page where you are asked to re-enter your username and password or any personal information, scrutinize it carefully. If you are unsure and don't need to access the page, just close the window and forget about it.
7.
Use friending to alienate or become "famo". A friend request is a precious thing. Do you remember walking up to a new friend on the kindergarten playground and asking him or her to be your friend? Well, welcome to the 21st century version. You don't want to use this power to alienate others, but at the same time, you only want to let people in that you know in the physical world. "Famo" refers to becoming Internet
Famous. Kids love to "collect friends," whether they know them or not. The more friends you have, the more famo you are. People you meet online that you don't know face-to-face are strangers. It's just not safe to let them into your inner circle!
8.
Post your illegal activity on Facebook. Sure, you might think it's pretty cool that you're getting away with that bottle of booze before you're of legal age, but you won't get away with much if your parental units or future employers catch a peek.
9.
Forget to say happy birthday on your friends' message walls. Facebook informs you of your friends' birthdays; the least you can do is leave them a two-word message.
10.
Don’t connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts. People you haven’t heard from for, like, seven years — people you never thought you were friends with — will leave lame and annoying comments on your Tweets.
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Don't keep on changing your relationship status. Don’t announce your divorce on Facebook for a number of reasons, the least of which is that all your "friends" will respond on your "wall" with sympathies that in a different era would've been delivered in privacy. You wouldn’t console somebody by shouting across a room full of people. Why are you doing it on a Facebook "wall?"
A woman
was killed after changing her relationship status on Facebook. Let this be a lesson to ya...don't fall prey to the
Facebook Murder just keep your relationship status steady.
