5 Langkah untuk Tetap Aman dan Nyaman di Facebook

Ketika Presiden Amerika Serikat memperingatkan anak-anak sekolah untuk memperhatikan apa yang mereka katakan dan lakukan di Facebook, Anda tahu bahwa kita punya masalah ... dan itu bukan hanya persoalan di Amerika Serikat. Orang-orang di seluruh dunia tanpa berpikir berbagi apa saja di jaringan sosial terbesar dunia, tidak meneliti siapa saja yang membaca postingan mereka atau apa efeknya buruknya. Sebagai contoh, apakah Anda tahu bahwa 30% dari pengusaha saat ini menggunakan Facebook untuk mengenal karyawan potensial sebelum perekrutan? Dalam perekonomian sulit sekarang ini, cukup menjadi pertanyaan apakah layak untuk posting foto pesta yang memalukan dapat menjatuhkan reputasi anda (ingat juga saat anda men-tag teman anda)

Tanpa sepengetahuan sebagian besar pengguna Facebook, jaringan sosial sesungguhnya menawarkan kontrol privasi dan fitur keamanan yang dapat membantu Anda mengamankan diri. Jika digunakan dengan benar, anda tidak perlu khawatir apakah anda bisa menerima tawaran teman dari atasan anda atau ibu anda. Anda bisa berteman dengan siapa saja yang anda mau, tetapi tetap menapat kenyamanan karena anda tahu bahwa tidak semua orang bisa melihat apa saja yang anda posting.

Masalah dalam penggunaan pilihan privasi ini adalah, kadang terlalu membingungkan bagi orang-orang yang tidak suka hal teknis untuk mengaplikasikannya. Dan sering kali, orang-orang tidak mau sedikit meluangkan waktu untuk belajar. Prosesnya sederhana, kami menawarkan lima langkah mudah yang dapat Anda pergunakan untuk berinteraksi menggunakan Facebook lebih aman, lebih nyaman, dan lebih pribadi. 


Langkah 1: Membuat Daftar Teman 


Ini akan diperlukan beberapa waktu, terutama jika Anda telah terhubung ke beberapa ratus teman. Tetapi, langkah ini meskipun lambat namun cukup sederhana. Dan itu akan menjadi hal yang paling berguna di Facebook.

Daftar teman, seperti namanya, adalah daftar untuk mengelompokkan teman-teman Anda. Yang menyenangkan tentang fitur ini adalah, sekali anda telah membuatnya, anda tidak perlu membuatnya untuk lain kali. Kami menyarankan Anda menempatkan rekan kerja dan kenalan profesional ke daftar teman sebagai "rekan kerja," teman-teman lainnya ke dalam sebuah daftar yang disebut "Kenalan," dan keluarga ke dalam sebuah daftar yang disebut "Keluarga . Tiga kategori kelompok "teman" memungkinkan anda menyembunyikan beberapa informasi.

Untuk membuat daftar teman, klik "Friends" di bagian atas situs Facebook. Di kolom sebelah kiri, klik "Friends" lagi dibagian bawahnya "Daftar". Sekarang Anda akan melihat tombol di bagian atas, mengatakan "Create New List". Klik. Dalam pop-up yang muncul, Anda menuliskan nama daftar Anda dan memilih anggota. Jika Anda pernah berbagi aplikasi dengan teman-teman Anda, proses untuk melakukan hal ini sangat mudah.

Ketika Anda telah selesai membuat daftar, Anda akan dapat menentukan siapa yang dapat melihat apa (atau sebaliknya!) Caranya seperti dibawah ini:

Langkah 2: Siapa yang bisa melihat Profil Anda

Di bagian kanan atas Facebook, ada menu yang mungkin diabaikan banyak orang: "Settings (Pengaturan)." Menu ini sekarang akan menjadi teman terbaik Anda. Untuk memulai, arahkan mouse ke menu Pengaturan dan klik "Privacy Settings" dari daftar yang muncul. Berikutnya, klik "Profil." Ini akan membawa kita ke halaman dimana kita bisa mengatur siapa yang dapat melihat informasi tertentu pada profil Anda.

Sebelum membuat perubahan, pikirkan dengan hati-hati tentang hal yang Anda ingin share ke publik atau hal yang ingin anda jaga tetap dalam wilayah pribadi. Baikkah apabila “setiap orang” bisa melihat foto dimana Anda di-tag? Atau anda ingin membatasi hanya orang-orang tertentu yang telah anda pilih dalam daftar teman Anda?

Di bawah setiap bagian pada halaman ini ( info, personal info, status, dll), Anda dapat menetapkan siapa yang boleh melihat informasi tertentu. Bagi yang tidak menggunakan daftar teman (lihat langkah 1), hal terbaik untuk dimasukkan di sini adalah "Only Friends.". Ada lagi orang-orang yang membuka informasi profil Anda yang mungkin kenal atau tidak. Misalnya, bila kita memilih "Everyone" maka info itu bisa diakses siapa saja, “Friends of Friends” adalah memungkinkan teman dari teman anda melihatnya, “My Networks and Friends” mengizinkan info anda dapat dilihat dalam lingkup network anda, berarti siapa pun di kota Anda, SMU Anda, perguruan tinggi Anda, kantor anda, organisasi profesional Anda, dll

Anda juga dapat memblokir kelompok-kelompok tertentu dapat melihat bagian-bagian ini. Pada pilihan "Edit Custom Settings", Anda dapat mengklik link tersebut untuk menampilkan pop-up kotak untuk dapat memilih orang-orang atau daftar blok (lihat di fitur "Kecuali orang-orang ini"). Jika Anda belum membuat daftar teman seperti yang dijelaskan pada langkah 1 di atas, disini Anda juga dapat memasukkan nama satu per satu (misalnya boss diblokir).

Langkah 3: Siapa yang dapat melihat Alamat dan Nomer Telpon Anda

Apakah daftar alamat dan nomor telepon Anda ada di Facebook? Meskipun itu fitur yang bagus, tapi mungkin anda tidak mau semua orang dalam daftar teman anda mengetahui informasi ini. Untuk mengkses halaman konfigurasi, ikuti langkah seperti di step 2 untuk masuk ke dalam Profile Privacy. Lihat di halaman itu ada dua tab di bagian atas, klik “Contact Information”

Seperti yang telah dijelaskan di atas, Anda dapat kembali menggunakan daftar drop-down untuk menentukan siapa yang boleh melihat dan tidak informasi ini. Bagian halaman ini mencakup "IM Screen Name," "Mobile Phone," "Telepon Lainnya," " Alamat," "Situs Internet," dan email Anda.

Step 4: Change Who Can Find You on Facebook via Search

Langkah 4: Rubah siapa saja yang dapat mencari anda di Facebok Melalui Search 


Jengkel mendapatkan permintaan dari orang atau teman yang dulu bermasalah? Sementara yang menyenangkan di Facebook adalah memungkinkan Anda berhubungan kembali dengan semua orang yang Anda pernah kenal sepanjang hidup Anda, atau menemukan orang yang menjengkelkan yang ingin kembali berhubungan. Anda tidak lagi berteman dengan orang-orang ini karena suatu alasan. Tapi kalau anda tidak approve permintaan teman itu, dia akan tahu bukan? Ternyata, ada suatu pengaturan di Facebook yang memungkinkan teman yang tidak anda sukai tidak bisa menemukan anda melalui search.


Klik pada menu "Settings" di homepage Facebook dan kemudian klik "Search" pada halaman berikut. Anda akan dibawa ke halaman Search Privacy di mana Anda dapat menentukan siapa yang harus menemukan Anda di Facebook. Mau siapa saja? Pada menu drop down "Search Visibility" , pilih "Everyone." Ingin sedikit lebih terbatas? Pilih "My Networks dan Friends," Friends of Friends," atau "My Networks dan Friends of Friends". Tidak ingin orang menemukan Anda di Facebook? Ubah ke "Only Friends." Itu berarti hanya orang-orang yang telah anda approve untuk jadi teman-lah yang dapat menemukan anda melalui Facebook Search.

Pada halaman ini, Anda juga dapat mengatur tampilan informasi saat halaman info anda ditampilkan sebagai hasil dari suatu pencarian. Bisa berupa foto anda, daftar teman anda, dll. Anda bisa leluasa menentukan pada kotak centang berbasis jaringan, apa yang bisa ditampilkan atau disembunyikan. Misalnya jika Anda tidak ingin orang dari SMA untuk menemukan Anda, hapus centang pada kotak di samping "orang-orang di jaringan SMA."

Langkah 5: Berhenti Berbagi Info pribadi dengan Aplikasi Tidak Diketahui

Aplikasi Quiz-quiz di Facebook tahu banyak mengenai anda. Anda secara tidak sadar berbagi banyak informasi pribadi (dan info teman-teman anda juga), apalagi bila anda menggunakan banyak aplikasi tambahan Facebook yang dikembangkan oleh para developer. Saatnya anda memegang kontrol! Di halaman depan Facebook, arahkan mouse ke menu “Settings” dan pilih "Privacy Settings" dari daftar drop-down. Pada halaman berikutnya, klik "Application/Aplikasi" kemudian klik tab yang bertuliskan "Setting/Pengaturan" yang di sebelah tab "Overview"

Pada halaman ini, Anda dapat centang dan hapus centang kotak di samping informasi pribadi Anda (gambar, pendidikan sejarah, dinding, pandangan agama, dll). Teman-teman Anda hanya mampu melihat yang anda ijinkan. Bahkan teman dari teman Anda dapat melihat informasi pribadi Anda jika tidak membuat perubahan ini! Percaya atau tidak, Anda tidak memiliki kontrol yang sama atas aplikasi Anda sendiri. Sebaiknya Anda mengunjungi halaman dan hapus aplikasi yang tidak anda gunakan lagi. (Gunakan "X" untuk menghapusnya.) Anda lihat, sekali Anda mengotorisasi sebuah aplikasi, Anda telah mengijinkan untuk mengakses setiap informasi yang terkait dengan account Anda. Sementara beberapa pengembang mungkin hanya menarik apa yang benar-benar diperlukan, banyak orang lain mungkin mengorek segala informasi yang mereka dapat. Menakutkan, bukan?

Kesimpulan 

Meskipun ini bukan panduan yang komprehensif untuk keamanan dan privasi di Facebook, lima langkah ini dapat membantu anda mengamankan diri, lebih nyaman, dan lingkungan yang lebih pribadi pada jaringan sosial.

Namun, jika Anda memilih tidak mencegah, Anda mungkin akan menyalahkan diri sendiri ketika sebuah posting dinding (wall post) memposting foto yang memalukan online dan langsung ditampilkan di halaman depan Boss Anda atau ibu Anda. Pikirkanlah sebelum hal ini benar-benar menimpa anda.


Tips on Choosing a Good Domain Name

Before you rush out and choose your domain name or name your website, you might want to consider the following points:

1. Your Domain Name Should Be Your Website Name

Naming your site after your domain may seem obvious to some of you, but you'll be surprised to learn that not every website is named after the domain name even when the webmaster owns that domain name.

Naming a site after its domain name is important, for the simple reason that when people think of your website, they'll think of it by name. If your name is also your URL, they'll automatically know where to go. For example, when people think of thefreecountry.com, they don't have to wonder what URL to type into their browser to get there. The name of the site is also the URL.

Imagine if your business (or website) is called "Acme", but somebody else holds that domain name. Instead, you have some obscure domain name called, say, "mybusiness.com". What happens when your customers, recalling that Acme has a product they want, type "www.acme.com"? They'll wind up at your competitor's website. One lost sale.

In the modern world of the Internet, where people automatically turn to the Web for information, it pays to have a domain name that reflects your site or business. There are just fewer things for your customers or visitors to remember. Moreover, you don't seriously think that they'll try to memorise an unrelated URL just because you want them to, do you? The only people who'll memorise it are you and your competitors who want to compare your prices.

What if you cannot get the domain name of your choice? It really depends on how committed you are to that particular name. If you have an existing brand name that you're known for, you'll probably not want to ditch that name just because you couldn't get the domain name. After all, it took you a lot of time and money to establish that name. If so, you might simply want to try to buy over the domain name from the current owner. Check up the "whois" information for the domain, and contact that person listed to see if they're willing to sell it. You probably should be aware that they are likely to want to charge a higher fee than you'll normally get when buying new domains (assuming they want to sell it in the first place).

On the other hand, if you're just starting out, you might prefer the cheaper alternative of trying to obtain a domain name first, and then naming your website (or business) after the domain that you've acquired. So if you've acquired, say, the domain name "acme.com", then your website and business might be named "Acme" or "acme.com". I know this seems a bit like putting the cart before the horse, but that's the reality if you don't want to lose out on the Internet.

2. Generic Names Or Brand Name Domains?

I know that a number of people seem to think that your domain name really must be some generic name like "cars.com" if you are selling cars. Witness, for example, how much money those generic names are being sold for. But seriously, if you were looking for a car, you'll probably already have some brands in mind, and you're more like to try out things like generalmotors.com or toyota.com rather than just cars.com.

For that reason, I personally feel that a domain name that matches your brand name is very important. The very name that you use to advertise your product is the name that you will want for your domain, because that is the first thing that people will try in their browser. It is also the easiest thing for them to remember, and whatever that is easily remembered, will be more likely to be tried out than the obscure domain name.

3. Long or Short Domain Names?

Domain names can be of any length up to 67 characters. You don't have to settle for an obscure domain name like avab.com when what you mean is AcmeVideosAndBooks.com.

Having said that, there appears to be some disagreement about whether a long or short domain name is better.

Some argue that shorter domain names are easier to remember, easier to type and far less susceptible to mistakes: for example, "getit.com" is easier to remember and less prone to typos than "connecttomywebsiteandobtainit.com".

Others argue that a longer domain name is usually easier on the human memory - for example, "gaepw.com" is a sequence of unrelated letters that is difficult to remember and type correctly, whereas if we expand it to its long form, "GetAnEconomicallyPricedWebsite.com", we are more likely to remember the domain name.

Some of these arguments are actually academic. It's increasingly difficult to get short meaningful domain names. I have not checked, but I'm fairly certain that names like "getit.com" and "good.com" have long been sold. If you manage to get a short domain name though, the key is to make sure it's a meaningful combination of characters and not the obscure "gaepw.com" in my contrived example above.

Long domain names that have your site keywords in them also have an advantage in that they fare better in a number of search engines. The latter give preference to keywords that are also found in your domain names. So, for example, if you have a site on free C++ compilers with a domain name like freecpluspluscompilers.com, it might fare better in a search for "free C++ compilers" than my other site, thefreecountry.com.

Which would I go for? I'd go for the shorter name if I can get a meaningful one, but I'm not averse to longer names. However, I would probably avoid extremely long names verging on 67 characters. Aside from the obvious problem that people might not be able to remember such a long name, it would also be a chore typing it and trying to fit it as a title on your web page.

4. Hyphenated Names?

Should you get a hyphenated name? There are a few things to consider here:

a. Disadvantage: It's easy to forget the hyphens when typing a name. Many users are used to typing things like freecpluspluscompilers.com but not free-c-plus-plus-compilers.com. They'll probably leave out the hyphens and wind up at your competitor's site.

b. Disadvantage: When people recommend your site to their friends verbally, having hyphens in your domain name leads to more potential errors than when the name does not contain hyphens. For example, how do you think your visitors will refer to your site if it is named "acme-books-and-videos.com"? They might say, "I visited Acme Book and Videos dot com yesterday. It was fabulous." Their friends, remembering that comment later, might type into their browsers "acmebooksandvideos.com". Oops.

c. Disadvantage: It's a pain in the neck to type. Enough said.

d. Advantage: Search engines can distinguish your keywords better and thus return your site more prominently in search results for those keywords occurring in your domain name.

e. Advantage: The non-hyphenated form may no longer be available. At least this way, you still get the domain name you want.

Personally, I prefer to avoid hyphenated names if I can, but I guess it really depends on your domain name and your situation.

5. Plurals, "The", and "My" Forms of the Domain Name

Very often, if you can't get the domain name you want, the domain name registrar will suggest alternate forms of the name you typed. For example, if you wanted website.com, and it was taken (of course it is), it might suggest forms like:

thewebsite.com
mywebsite.com
websites.com

and the like, if they were not already taken as well. The question is, should you take them?

My personal opinion is that if you take the "the..." and "my..." forms of the domain name, you must always remember to promote your site with the full form of the name. Otherwise, people are likely to forget to affix the necessary "the" or "my". For that reason, I always advertise my sites as "thesitewizard.com" and "thefreecountry.com" in their full domain name forms, rather than just "Free Country" or "Site Wizard" (without the article).

On the other hand, I would not take the plural form of the domain name (eg, websites.com) if I cannot also get "website.com", since the chance of the visitor failing to type the "s" in the name is very great. Think about the famous name tussle between etoys.com and etoy.com. Many people wanting to go to etoys.com were apparently going to etoy.com instead. If it happened to them, it can happen to you too.

6. COM, ORG, NET, etc?

One common question I encounter is from people who can't get the ".com" domain of their choice, but find the ".net", ".org" or other country-specific top level domains (TLDs) available (like .de, .nu, .sg, etc). Should they try for these?

The answer is not as straightforward as you might think. If your website or business caters to the local community, such as a pizza delivery business or recruitment agency or the like, then it makes sense to get a country-specific domain. You actually benefit from having such a local domain because the people in your country know that they're dealing with a local entity, which is what they want. After all, if they stay in (say) the United Kingdom, they're not likely to want to try to order pizza from pizzaparlour.com, which suggests a US or an international site. You'll have better luck calling it pizzaparlour.co.uk, ie, with a UK domain.

What if yours is a site or business that can benefit from an international audience? There are actually many schools of thought on this. I'll just mention a few common ones.

The first school of thought goes on the premise that it is better to have a domain name of your choice "myperfectdomain" even if it has a TLD of ".net", ".org" or some other country specific extension, than to wind up choosing an obscure domain name for the simple reason you can't get your first choice. Thus they would settle for domain names like "myperfectdomain.de" or "myperfectdomain.net" or whatever. Against this is the argument that if you get a country specific domain, people might think that your business only caters to that country.

Another school of thought finds that ".net" and ".org" extensions are actually quite acceptable domain names. For some, the ".org" extension actually describes the non-profit nature of their organisation. So, for example, the famous Apache web server can be found at "apache.org".

Others settle for the ".com" extension and no less. As grounds for their arguments, they cite the browser algorithms used to locate a website when a user simply types a name like "acme" into the browser. Apparently, the browser searches for a domain name "acme.com" before attempting "acme.net", etc. As such, people who do that will be delivered to your competitor's site if you do not also own the ".com" extension. Indeed, even if people do not rely on their browser to complete their typing, many simply assume a ".com" extension when they type a domain name, so if your business is "Acme", they'll just assume your domain name is "acme.com" rather than "acme.net" or some other such name.

As you can see, there are actually good grounds for accepting any of the above views. My personal footnote to the above arguments is that if you get a domain name with an extension other than ".com", make sure that you promote your business or website with the full domain name. For example, if your domain name is "dogandcatfood.net", make sure that when you advertise your site or business, call it "dogandcatfood.net" not "dogandcatfood". Otherwise people will assume a ".com" extension and travel to the wrong place.

7. In Conclusion...

In case the forest got lost in the trees (or the reverse) in my arguments here, let me reiterate the main point of this article: get that domain name before you start your site or business.

Don't make the mistake of attempting to retrofit your domain name to your business or website. thefreecountry.com did not originally start out with that name, and I encountered a huge hassle (and lost visitors) as a result of the URL changes. Don't make that mistake too.

If you need help getting that domain name, check out my other article on how to register a domain name. In that article, I also include a list of some registrars that you can use, distinguishing the well-established ones from the less established but cheap ones (so you have a wider choice, depending on what is important to you). The article can be found at http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/registerdomain.shtml

Reference by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com