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* configure your account's security and privacy settings (guide for [https://www.facebook.com/help/325807937506242/ Facebook] and [https://support.twitter.com/categories/51#category_267 Twitter])
You help [https://immersion.media.mit.edu/ create the social graph] of your friends and associates. This is useful information to companies and security services. By remaining constantly signed in on your social network account in the browser, you are also disclosing your [https://trackographymyshadow.org/ browser-tracking browsing habits] on the Internet in general, outside of aside from their service. This extends to many types of websites, including your [https://trackography.org news and media] service. The [https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Panopticlick] project from EFF can analyse your browser for traces of identifiable data that website you visit will collect about you. The [https://myshadow.org/lightbeam Lighbteam browser add-on] will "visualise the relationships between the websites you visit and the third party companies that track your online activity through those websites" and the [https://www.ghostery.com/our-solutions/ghostery-add-on/ Ghostery browser add-on] will even help you block these trackers from collecting your personal data.
There are alternative social networking services that are built with privacy in mind, including [https://diasporafoundation.org/ Diaspora], [http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ RetroShare], [https://gnu.io/social/ Gnu Social] and a recently launched [https://www.minds.com Minds] for Android and iOS.
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