Facebook privacy - are you worried?

frilly

I have always been worried about Facebook, I have long objected tat they just appeared at times & ordered you to change your password, they always seemed to know too much about everyone & me in particular. I am always told I should put a photograph of me on the site. I don't want to, since I have been on Prednisone I have put on a tremendous amount of weight, not very proud of my now fat face LOL.
Seriously I am having the same problem with this new site NABO. We are all supposed to get to know our neighbour.s We put out our full address, & it is there for everyone to see. I can understand that neighbourhoods are not what they were, I am very aware of this because I am now disabled, it is amazing for all the radio appeals in the very hot weather or when there has been a long hidden body discovered the police putout a request for people to check on their elderly neighbours. No one ever knocks on our door unless my elderly neighbour phones.
I have been told that I should show my trust in my neighbourhood & publish a photo of myself. I have said the same to face book, I feel I am making myself very vulnerable doing that. At present at least I can go about the place without a concern that we may be followed home and burgled to say the least, I don't think this is over stating the case, it seems all too often we hear of elderly people opening the door to be knocked about & robbed.
I am told that is unlikely in this area but people who are on TV saying that have never had shootings & robberies in their area before.Facebook travels further than NABO but we are much more open to the outside World these days with IT & people even just talking about every day affairs find suddenly sone one will say something about some one that just should never have been said.
I know of a solicitor who watches Facebook,he specialises in people having problems with police speeding tickets & other small offences such as parking. It is amazing how much he manages to collect from facebook that he warns Clients it should never has been there, Teenagers who put their life on there , go for a job, they are discounted because of their news of themselves in Facebook.