Facebook Needs to be Used With Caution

Online friends should always be treated as online friends, never try to make them offline friends.

We hear of all manners of things that can happen to people due to social networks and people going to meet up with people on them, not always is it face book, but also dating sites as well. Anyone can put a photo up and it do not have to be a photo of your self, I mean you can get no end of photos of other people off the internet, so I would never trust a photo of a person or some one saying that they are a certain age.I watch all that my children do on their computers and I will say that there are no end of people that try to add them of all ages.

I'm rarely on Facebook. Just don't enjoy telling everyone all about where I am and what I'm doing. People that know me well also know my habits, where I am or who I am with. The only way I would meet someone in person who I met on Facebook would be in a public place, in my city with another friend or two. Beter to be safe than sorry.

I totally agree because i have heard of people meeting someone off yahoo and getting killed or kidnapped. Yes there are people that have met off a web site and got married but it is really risky to do that. I wouldn't even go to a dating site to meet someone because they still lie about things like their age show pictures of themselves 10 yrs ago and one person i know of met someone off a dating site that showed a pic of someone not even really them because they thought the pic they showed was better looking then they were. So no i wouldn't and haven't met anyone from online. Be very careful if you do meet someone online. They won't always be who they make u think they are they could be anyone anywhere in the world just looking for a kill or someone to kidnap or something you never know. Like i said some people can be good and nice that you meet online but how do you know. Since you don't be very very careful.

I think caution is the key, anonymity is what is so appealing with online social networks , and also it takes two hands to clap so what i am saying is basically, that for one to be mislead so easily, there has to be more to the story. common sense will always rule if appllied wisely towards online friend. Thousands of genuine friends have been put into contact with each other and there are also romantic success stories but usually these type of things are considered not newsworthy because of the happy endings , but few bad occurences and it is everywhere in the news. One girl had a bad result because of a new online friend,we can learn from it ,of course .and be more cautious by understanding how it happened. I think the odds of One girl out of maybe few hundred who made online friends and have blossomed friendship further also ought to be given thought as to the FaceBook friend perceived negativity. Just not fair to say it is bad just like that because i know of some friends who due to FB got new online friends who eventually introduced them to good jobs they are with now, that is one positive nobody mentions. PEOPLE are strange in that way, I think we are all born with good sense to know to be cautious especially when it has been shared, people get wiser, online friends are not all bad, nor are they all good..our judgment is our guide to avoid becoming a victim to any one with bad intentions.

The world today has really been fast advancing and a lot of social networking sites are coming up. I mean cyber space has really taken over most of our daily activities like having friends, transactions anything. We must be careful in handling these things because they are much different from the outside world. I mean it's different personally when making friends or talking with other if it's in cyber space or personal.

I think people should be cautious in general. I have been scammed and hurt by people in real life more than I ever could online. You can have conversations for years with someone online and know more about them than some people will ever know about their real-life friends. Sadly, people with bad motives are everywhere, and this is just the latest tool for them.

Well I guess for me it depends on the situation.If you happen to know that online friend for a long time and wants to meet you in person I guess it's okay to meet that person but with precaution.And when I said for a long time, it means you know everything that is about to know about that person.Not all online peeps are pervs there are some who just like to have friends online and that their identity are true and correct.If you want to meet up with someone whom you have known online don't show up in your meeting place alone.Bring another friend so that your friend will also meet your online friend and so on.There is no harm in using facebook or any other social media network just know your limitations and guard yourself first.

I think it is best to be cautious when you are meeting with people that you have found online. Because you don't really know whether they are being genuine or just lying about anything about themselves. I am very cautious about it when I am on any online social networking sites. But some people can be naive and believe anything an online person tells them.

Yes, it is very dangerous when you go to meet with someone you don't know, and on the internet, you never know with who you are talking to. thanks for the discussion.

Not only Facebook, but all social networking sites must be used with caution as anybody can be someone else and create a fake account to lure potential victims. There are lots of scammers, posers, trolls and hackers everywhere. That is why I only add those people who I know personally on my Facebook. I also do not put lots of pertinent information about me just in case someone managed to access my account.

Yes, it happens all the time on facebook. I see those kind of stories all the time on cnn.

Not all you met on facebook was dangerous and I am not telling that you should easily trust someone you just met there, but people must know what and how many informations should they will share through the millions or billions people in a social media site like facebook. I agree with you to be cautious when using sites like this.

yes there are some situations like that and some been rape rob etc. so we better aware before meeting someone online not only and FB and some other social site too..!

I think that Facebook is one good way in meeting new friends. HOWEVER

The best way of being cautious over these types of risk included matter is that use the facebook as social network to be in touch with those whom you know in the real world, instead of using it as means to make new friends whom you don't know. As there are many fake ids in the facebook and even if some ids are proper they are with fake information. When we add strangers to our account, they can view all those posts or photos which we meant to share with our close ones.

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