Facebook is a great utility to keep in touch with friends and family, but it's long been a tool for people to invade your privacy and monitor your activity.  With websites like 'We Know What You're Doing' and other similar sites making it easier and easier to search your public Facebook statuses, is it time for you to re-check your privacy settings?

As more and more users of Facebook have become more familiar with the new settings,publicly available status updates have plunged by a whopping 93% overall according to the All Facebook blog.

Are you marketing your business on YouTube?  If not, you're missing a tremendous opportunity.  

Of course the best and most effective way to promote your business on YouTube is by creating an effective marketing video  (see our page about our Atlanta Video Production to learn more) but for now, let's breakdown YouTube's numbers and see why it's a marketing goldmine.

There's a new Facebook phishing scam that has hit the Internet hard.  Be on the lookout for an email looking like this:

Hi [email protected],

You have blocked your Facebook account. You can reactivate your account whenever you wish by logging into Facebook with your former login email address and password. Subsequently you will be able to take advantage of the site as before

Kind regards,
The Facebook Team

If you receive this email, do NOT click on the link(s) --- just DELETE IT.

Maybe you’re not keen to share details of your internet activity with advertisers. A Chrome extension called PrivacyFix will walk you through your privacy settings and let you make changes so advertisers cannot track what you do on the web in order to make ad revenue. It also ensures that friends you’re connected to through social networks cannot accidentally pass along your information to companies.

PrivacyFix blocks tracking on more than 1,000 sites, with emphasis on Facebook and Google. The extension will show you your privacy settings on a dashboard, and let you decide what you want to share and what you want to keep private. You can change your settings with the click of a button — just click “fix” on the site and it explains in plain English what this setting allows. You know those Facebook like buttons you see at the top of unrelated webpages? PrivacyFix will let you disable those. You can also protect your data from Facebook’s offline tracking.

With PrivacyFix you’ll be updated if any new sites you sign-up for want to enable cookies. For the sites you can’t block, PrivacyFix will send automatically generated messages to the site.

Whether you’re worried about the security of your personal data, or just feel a bit creeped out that your web activity is being monitored to generate revenue, PrivacyFix is an easy solution.

Felton Ineractive Group {FIG}: a web design and video production firm in Atlanta, GA. 

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