On Facebook you can share photographs, videos, thoughts, newspaper articles and an infinity of resources available to any user. But the social network can become a detailed profile of a person that can be risky, especially for the youngest, who sometimes provide information that can be used by criminals, kidnappers or members of a human trafficking gang.
The rise of Facebook, which already has 750 million users in the world, has reached all ages, and also schools, where children share information with their peers, neighbors or friends. Some parents allow their children to create an account on the social network, and in many cases they lose control of what is published there and who can access that information.
Candela Rodríguez had a Facebook profile, "Cande Dbl", where she uploaded photographs that she took with her cell phone: at school events, with her friends from Barrio Luna, in Villa Tesei, in Hurlingham, and also with her family at home.
The problem with Candela's Facebook profile, which was already unsubscribed, was that anyone who had a Facebook account could see the photographs she had created herself: the places she frequented, what activities she carried out, how she dressed, what friends she had, what the interior of her house was like, among other data.
The social network specifies in the conditions of use that only people over 13 years of age can create a profile. It is the same website that recommends "that minors, from the age of 13, ask their parents for permission before sending information about themselves over the Internet" and encourages parents to "teach their children safe practices for the use of the Internet."
Many times, users do not pay attention to the privacy settings of the account, predetermined so that anyone can see the profile of a user, a vital concept of the social network, which is born with the aim of "sharing".
In the face of criticism of privacy management, Facebook is forced to make changes to the platform, such as simplifying the mode of privacy adjustment. To do so, you can go to facebook.com/privacy, and from there you can control how to share from photographs to posts on the wall (where user activity is displayed).
In this way, the person can choose with whom they will share their profile: with everyone (public), with their friends or personalized. In this last option, a stricter adjustment can be made to privacy permissions. Also, in facebook.com/settings you can control the personal data entered, the associated email account and change the login password.
Source: La Nación
