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Facebook Privacy

Okay so we have been talking a bit in class about Facebook Privacy. Guys never leave your Facebook logged in anywhere. One of my mates had obviously used my computer at some point since I had last used it. Anyway my computer was turned off, when I turned it back on and went into Facebook my friends account was already logged in on, I was like okay, shouldnt it have logged itself out when the computer was shut down, but I didnt think muchof it, I mean being a friend of theirs on Facebook anyway meant I wasnt exactly seeing anything I couldnt already see if i was logged into my own. But then, at this point they must have been on their own computer somewhere else on Facebook, the chat window came up and from where I was sitting at my computer in my room I could see everything that the person was typing in Facebook chat to another person. This really freaked me out. These two people could have been having a really personal private convosation through this chat and everything that was typed into it came up onto my screen. This made me think why on earth doesn't it automatically log out if another computer logs in, noone is going to be on their account in two different locations at once, and the fact that facebook had actually been closed and it satyed logged in. Anyway I told my friend all about it and to start watching it, because people use that facebook chat for lots of private things and if that had happened on a public computer or one at uni then anybody could have been reading that convosation as it was happening...creepy.

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