Take this Lollipop - How safe are you?
Take this Lollipop is a simple website that poses a far more complex question - how safe are you online?
Check out 'Take this Lollipop' - if you dare. It's something like Pandora's Box and once you open it you may not be able to rest quite so easily at night.
Take this Lollipop has a surprisingly simple premise - you sign on with your facebook account and it goes through and compiles a short video using different pieces of information and photos that it accessed from your facebook. It isn't violating your privacy and it's taking similar data to a lot of different 'friend' applications on Facebook.
However the way it presents that information is very, very different.
Because you see, it's basically putting your information in the hands of a virtual stalker. Watch as a scary looking man goes through your facebook photos. Look over his shoulder as he finds your address and zooms in on it on Google Maps. Try and not be creeped out as he drives his car with a photo of you on his dash.
Yes, Take this Lollipop is telling you just how easy it is for a cyber stalker to find you, or your family, via their facebook profile.
If you don't want to enter your own details or don't have a facebook profile, then watch a version of the Take this Lollipop video below:
So how safe are we online? Is Take this Lollipop true? Can a stalker really get enough information to actually find us simply via our facebook page?
The answer is, sadly, yes. With more of us spending our time online and on social networking sites like facebook, there is simply a lot more information about us being distributed.
How can we protect ourselves online?
The key to keeping yourself and family safe online is to take control. Take control over what information is available and if you see anything that you think reveals too much, delete it.
Take control over your privacy settings - Facebook can turn your life into an open book, but thankfully there are privacy settings that can enable you to limit what's shown to only a select few. Isolate your facebook friends into groups and make use of the settings that prevent certain groups from seeing everything you post.
Learn more about how you can make facebook safer
Check out www.facebook.com/safety for heaps of information on how you can prevent people misusing information from your facebook page. Get tips on setting up your account, learn how facebook works with the local police and read information specifically written for parents, teachers and teens on internet safety.
Don't let 'Take this Lollipop' become a reality - be proactive and protect yourself online.
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Ouch, my brain is hurting from that "lollypop" video. There's 1:40 of my life I'll never get back. Absolutely pointless and inaccurate. Is there an award for prro journalism?
over a year ago by john3136
