Focusing on Heuristics

To deal with any situation we rely heavily on models that have been built based on previous experiences (irrespective of how similar or different the current situation is from the previous one). These models or mental shortcuts are commonly known as heuristics. With that realisation, it seems obvious that one must pay adequate attention to these models and do what one can to improve them.

How to deal with privacy issues on social networks

Consider anything you do as public.

It’s that simple. I don’t think you will ever again worry about your social network content if you treated all the content you post to social networks as public. 

Facebook keeps changing it’s privacy settings. Google creates Buzz and gives away loads of information. People post things publicly that were considered private by the author… you won’t have to deal with them any more.

Just consider everything public while on social networks. Period.