Check Your Privacy Settings

Google Buzz definitely stirred a lot of controversies since the day it came into existence.

Ok, I admit, I was excited at first but when I see names of people appearing in my Google mail, responding to the posts of some of those I’m following, I tweaked the privacy settings and the sites connected to me to give me a sense of (a little) security from being exposed to people I do not know.

Not that I feel I should have taken diet pills before my photos are seen ( 😀 ) but you know, not all the people in your mailing list are people that you exactly want to share personal info with.

There are contacts that I do not personally know in my mailing list such as there are people I come in contact with in social networking sites that I do not personally know too. Even if I share common friends with them it does not necessarily mean that they are my friends already.

Like with Facebook, before the change in privacy settings took place, I went the super private way, by being not searchable by people I would not ask to be a contact in the first place. I just did a several changes in the privacy setting which I discussed in this post after they made searching for friends easier.

What about you? Have you checked your privacy settings lately?