Saturday, 14 July 2012

Social Privacy Protector: A Facebook App for Profile Privacy Protection

Facebook is the most popular website with 800+ million users and counting each day. Recently this social networking website has been creating waves in the news media with the latest buzz which sparked off the rumor of its joining age limit. It is said that this website has reportedly said to have relaxed the age limit to 13 years. Whether or not this is true the fact is that more than often it is the teenagers who are keener on joining this social networking website and staying connected online maximum number of times. Keeping all this in mind it becomes essential to come up with various privacy and security measures that work towards maintaining safety of the users who are logged in online.

According to a news source a few college students have developed a security app namely The Social Privacy Protector or SSP. This app is useful for parents to make relevant adjustment in relation to the profile of their kids. The adjustment is simple and easy requiring just a click. This will enable in protecting minors from getting into trouble and safekeeping them from online abuse. The criminals online looking for getting hold of vital personal information will be kept at bay by utilizing this app. Additionally this app is helpful in providing multi-level security to the user profile by reviewing friend list. It helps in identifying the status of the profile from real to fake.

SSP is designed to analyze the profile of each friend added in the list of the user and provide a report which confirms the status of the friend. This profile depicts the score ranking that is the basis of analysis for giving high or low ranking to the friend added in the profile. It then suggests the user to restrict the specific friend with lowest raking and enabling the filters for restricting the friend from accessing personal information. This way the user data is protected from being used without blocking or un-friending the person added in the friend list.

Privacy to the kids

This SSP app is helpful for parents who want to protect their kids from online threats. Another interesting thing about this app is that it is easy to use and apply without going through the hassle of navigation into privacy policies. As it is a well known fact that Facebook is a social media website that enables connecting to numerous people online but the user is also given the apt tools for setting privacy filters for account data protection. But still the user is not able to make specific setting that is related to profile analysis and telling genuine profile amongst fake one.

Utilizing this app the user will be able to set more relevant privacy settings to their profile while providing the user from anti-social elements. Additionally the user will be notified about the number of applications that are currently running and installed on their profile that are potentially harmful to their profile privacy and data.

Teens who are engaged in social networking activities are always vulnerable to threats such as social predators that are on a look out to invade profile privacy. Moreover this SSP app is freely available software for Facebook compatible to all browsers. This app can also be used as an added tool along with Firefox. The user can easily find it online.

Marigold Henry Montana is a technical expert who deals with various computer related issues. She is capable of handling the software as well as hardware troubleshooting. She advises people on basic upkeep and maintenance of their PC, Laptops, Notebooks and Tablets. She is working as a freelance technology writer and as fulltime online tech support for a well known IT software company. Her aim is to spread the technical know-how to the people all around the globe.

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