Thursday 19 November | written by: Edwin

Greetings, brethren. It's my pleasure to present the second in our "Dear Facebook" editorial series, in which we put the entire Facebook community on a pedastel, throw topical questions at it and make up semi-ludicrous answers till somebody's lawyers start sharpening their pencils.
Last week was all about
fish. This week, slightly less humorously, we're looking at the problem of data security (or
lack thereof). Facebook gets a lot of stick on this front, and it's high time Flytrap stuck its collective nose in.
Dear Facebook: are my details secure?1. Yes, unless you actually write online about your life and interests in any halfway sincere and open manner.Whenever you join a Rob Patterson fan-group, express an interest in Lily Allen's next single, comment on a link or update your status box with details of that bacon butty you bought in Morrisons, you're allowing third parties to build up a picture of your personality, income bracket, favourite daily haunts, associates, etc - to say nothing of such fraud-friendly details as your birth date, residence and contact details.
Best think carefully about what you allow other users to see. Stay out of the "friending" race, too: some of those apparently innocent requests might come from stealth marketeers or hackers - or worst of all, old school friends with whom you no longer have anything in common whatsoever.