Topic: Let's learn from Facebook (Read 192 times)

Thank you for bringing this as a discussion, Facebook has been in excitance , nothing like the details will be wiped, Facebook is a very nice platform in time of communication,is a chat room where u can chat a friend from outside this country and also make videos with them,I think is the best communication community so far,so if someone can decide to save documents in Facebook I think it will be very save ,the owner of Facebook mark z,he do maintenance all the time to make sure that Facebook doesn't have any problem,is a very save place in time of saving of documents and pictures for future use,to me all the platform I have been using no one is realible than Facebook I like Facebook

I am surprised to hear of this ''people not getting access to their Facebook account'' because I been d login into with my Facebook any time I feel like without facing any challenge of being logout of such. Nevertheless, na who no know sae hacking of Facebook dey, dey carry sensitive information d store for em Facebook account just like that, without having it in mind sae writing those sensitive information for paper would have been better than storing it on Facebook wey hack go fit occur and those sensitive information go get access by the hackers.

As social media d so, it is not safe for people wey d think it is. Whatever chats or information given out should be properly thought about for one to stay safe out of it because of the drama and dragging wey full for there

OP you are making a very much sense, many people has been found wanting in this, this thread has thought me a great lesson, it is important to learn before you learn from experience which is bad, during Facebook downtime I was among the persons that was shivering because I felt that my Facebook has been hacked but what help me was that I check my email their was know notification to that effect so I waited before it was restored.

It is important to know that storing anything online is not safe as we think because this site is owned by people, this same people may promise you safe based on the agreement to click but it might not be so at the end, the company that maintain privacy for now is apple and thats why no matter the cost price of iPhone people will always buy it.

Social media are just normally used to keep photos or videos. I don't think anyone can be that gullible to store seed phrase on social media. Information kept on social media are not really secured as it can be easily seen by others.

Well, you wouldn't blame many of us who use cloud storage for keeping details and files, because it's the computer age, and to some extent it's recoverable, even on a new device.
What difference is there between storing data on icloud or Google or on hard disks versus storing coins on either an exchange or a wallet, be it offline or online?

It's more a matter of what's easiest way to stay safe that is efficient and effective for us. That is for an individual I mean. Even the old method of ink on paper is still not as safe as one may think because in the wrong hands, such an information is gold.

Your talk na ogboge  way kajad pass any means wey people dey follow now dis your pattern wet I done carry dey hold body tay tay because shoot birds mama fly no news enter dis bitcoin Waka for person side.

Many know dey here for the savings of pass phrase or key phrase this kind matter dey Don throw for board, mata full wet person supposed use am learn, many save for social media so they can copy it easily without error when in need but when you loss am when the money dey fit change your life den you go Remember say is gud it's written down in diary.

A lot of us also hope on the forum as a full time employment and we should also learn from Facebook that anything can happen at any time and there was a time I was also discussing with a member of the forum when he spoke about the forum been shit down someday just like with the recent case in the forum that lead to the exploit of the sister forum altcointalk and that is also a clear signal that the forum itself can be shut down someday if care isn’t taken.
Now my question is this,
What is your hope as a full time Warner on here if the forum suddenly goes down someday ?

Back to the subject matter, I’ve seen some replies where people are totally condemning cloud storage which isn’t right as personally I think over 95 percent of internet users store their data on google or iCloud which almost all of us are guilty of.

I've said this on several notes that it isn't a wise opinion to store your secrecies onlines especially a networking system because once the system is manoeuvred or tempted by unauthorized party, then your secrecies are being exposed then your wallets can be invaded.
Trust not the onlines in ligns with the networking.

Immediately i saw the news online that Facebook and Instagram account are down, the matter sef no shake me because i no get the use of Facebook account. Na so some of my guys start to dey call me say person don hack their Facebook account they no fit get access to am again. But imagine how person go dey save their information on Facebook? Or they think everything they are doing on social media na only them they see am. Nothing is safe on social media these days, we can get scam in any way. How e dey even come their mind say Facebook is safe to save information, Facebook wey dey easy than any other media's. Our emails as well, we should know the kind of password and informations wey we go save for our email, nothing dey trusted by this time.

Only fools keeps their seed phrase on social media, social media is easy to hack, ones you have the persons email, phones number you don't need the password of the account before you hack them. I prefer to write down the words on my seed phrase on 3 different pieces of papers and keep them separately. Doing this that will help incase one loss or something strange happened to it. IMO I think keeping your seed phrase far from anything that have to do with Internet is also better, internet is not a good place to hide seed phrase, some people save their phrases on their emails, emails can also be compromised any time.

Honestly I have never liked the idea of storing important things online. The moment you store sensitive things online there is every possibility that you are not the only person who has gotten access to it. With the high rate of hacks going on you might wake up one morning and hear that your account has been compromised. Anyone storing sensitive information like wallet phrase online is not serious with his life and his funds. There are several best options that one has to store his phrase, like writing it down on a diary that you alone have access to and saving it to a personal flash drive and keep it safe. Always remember that not your key alone, then it's not your funds.

Couldn't blame them for storing their keys in the emails but it seems to be the easiest for someone who wants to access them easily when they travel even if they lose their phones or laptops, they could still find a copy of their keys in the email.

It's dumb but it's also kind of logical for some. However, not a good thing to do when it involves that should have been in a secure place. We always will learn when something is already lost.

Facebook's downtime is so coincident with the Super Tuesday that's why people are very conscious as to what really happened.

People dey do a lot of crazy things, so I no go dey surprise if person go dey that stupid to store their seed phrase on Facebook. Aside the technical glitch wey happen yesterday wey caused people to lose access to their accounts on FB, many times we don dey hear how hackers dey take over people accounts on FB, X, Instagram etc. So na dumb idea to store your sensitive information on social media. If an hacker take control of your account with your seed phrase you go lose your funds, if dem get hold of oda sensitive information dem fit use am blackmail you.

Is nice idea and I have also taken note of it, it is very important having multiple places where we can save our important documents for more security measures and safety net am really happy I found myself in Bitcointalk forum indeed lots of knowledge and useful ideas are shared here and alot will take advantage of it and i will not be an exception to it thanks once  again @(op)

The truth is that you can't pack all your eggs 🥚 in one basket 🧺 because of rhe unknown that might happened right now it is not acceptable for you to pack all your valuables documents, pictures, videos then save then only in one platform no I can't and it is not advisable but they can be a crash on the online platform or even if you happen to save them in a hard drive It can also crash down then you will end up losing all your valuables documents 📄 and pictures and  video...........   

I think most of this valuables documents are safe when you print them out also keep it in a very safe place in your house that no matters what nothing can tamper it again some other valuables like photos.. those important and momentum photos gallery are meant to enlarge in a smaller shape then use a water resistant guide to print them all out keep them also in a safe place somewhere in your house to keep it safe forever.........

During the olden days our granny's usually have a place to keep things safe and warm when ever they needs it they go and pick it not  now that we have social media everywhere which can crash any moment and you will find only your self responsible of your lost...

I am not saying that it is wrong to save online but make sure you always have an alternative in case of necessities....

Thanks 🙏👍

As this life dy so, e no too hard like that if you get sense, because even bible talk say wisdom is profitable to direct, and I also believe say even common sense surpose tell that person wey go do this kind of thing, say social media or anything online na very wrong place to store important things wey you no want person to see, since they can be hacked, but I dy sure say, no body go fit hack my diary, as long as I keep am in a very safe place.

Even when I never dy into crypto, I no dy save something online, now wey I don dy more enlightened nai I go come go f**k up like that? Before now I get diary wey I dy store all my important details, so I urge every right thinking person to do the same.

For social media I think the only document which can be kept is photos and videos, to me that is not a document. Document should be a more precise and articulated file with important features which might be implicating, which does not require keeping or saving it in a social media.
Although email might be a place to keep files which might not be safest as well despite it is more preferable to social media.
The best way to keep document is to keep it offline. even if you have it online, there should be need to write, keep or store in a more safer file as a backup. due to this singular reason of online backup, I have lost access to most of my file but I was able to restore it from a written document.

You are absolutely right brother, and a funny thing is that, they hav so much faith in all these social media that they forget to ask themselves questions like what if...? Aside normal cases like this, the social could face a downtime due to the attack of hacker(s) and that could lead to permanent  loss of your files you think are safe. The best thing we could do for ourselves is to stop over hyping  the security of platform when we can make other secure decisions in saving files, img..... Normally I store most of my files/ documents in a flashdrive and hard disc drive. Reason being that if any one get compromised the other one would be use to recover and transfer to a new one making it 2 storage system again. While for some little img I use Google drive while a still have a copy at my HDD, reason for using Google drive is for easy accessibility. I recommend you don't put in any sensitive information in your Google drive as it can also get compromised.

if I'm not wrong I still remember that most wallet apps don't allow you to even make screenshots of your seed phrase which is basically because they understand how valuable it is and that it shouldn't be left in your gadgets and you're talking about saving it in your mails or Facebook account? I know I sometimes save my logins details and some useful links I'm a separate WhatsApp group that I'm the only person inside and I do this basically to get access to those site whenever I want to buy that's not to say that should be the only place I drop those passwords and it's definitely not my seed phrase. You see the funny thing is that some of us have been contributing in threads about effectively securing our seed phrase to ensure it doesn't get into the wrong hands but in reality we're not doing half of what we are telling others to do. These days, you can just wake up to see that your account has been compromised due to how skilled hackers have become and you don't want to be unfortunate to store your valuable logins in any of your social media apps cause your name will be sorry without a simple space of Time.

One of the best ways na to write them down for book, no be sheet of paper oo but full note book or joker. Whether the note book or joker, the person go make sure say him put only him password or seed phrase there so that him go know say na only things about crypto dey there and no confusion from anything written on the book. You can make the book duplicate of two or more and also keep differently where they will be safe. So you go just carry one note book join body incase you need quick access.

To carry your password or codes go put for internet, na very bad way of thinking. In fact the person wey think like that suppose collect better knock. Online na scammers den and if them try break their way through, omo na hack oo.

I am not an active user of Facebook but I saw on X some few hours ago where users of that app were finding it difficult to access their accounts and were unable due to technical issues.

Some of the comments pointed to a more excalating presumptions that make them say that the accounts where already hacked, any ways storing important informations online is a bad approach regardless of how secured the sp called cyber claims to be and for such it risky to keep anything related to wallet security on third-party cyber like face or even Google and other online storage.

Taking my seed phrase to a social media chat is the biggest and most foolish decision I would have ever made in my financial life because I see that as equal to selling myself out and shooting myself on my foot. For the fact that I will never take a step of storing my seed phrase in an online platform whether centralized or decentralized, posting on a social media platform whether as a private chat or private post, it doesn't matter because it have already automatically stored your information.

This is the internet, and it's very wild, so whatever your doing, people that can be criminally minded, that would want to access or find ways to access information's that are very private to you are always at alert.
Saving your seed phrase on the mail or within the internet space is too dangerous. Important documents or details of an individual should be printed in hard copy and kept in a very private and secure area, not on the internet. At first when I noticed that I couldn't log into my Facebook account, I felt my Facebook account was hacked because what is rampant nowadays, it was later I found out they had network glitch.

Anybody who has been in this forum for a while now at least should have known that this is a very risky approach of dealing with your holdings. Of a truth, I'm even against storing your see phase plainly without some level of encryption, word extension or customization even when stored offline, talkless of going online for backup.

Funny as it may sound, I do the encryption myself with a local server and print it out in booklets and store the encryption of my seed phrases and the secret key at different places in a manner that the person that intercepts them will treat it as clearly unimportant.


Online isn't to be trusted with your seeds, third party interference and  loss of backup data is very high, you only need to trust yourself alone in securing your seeds and private keys , offline is the best approach.

Well I fit talk say na only person wey no get sense na fit think that kind of thing because If don learn anything at all for the crypto space nai be to know how important e be to take know where to keep your seed phrase and saving it online for Facebook na the most absurd thinking wey I don ever see but anyways sha as for me I know say saving your seed phrase offline is probably the best because nothing like hackers stories and the rest because e no dey for where dem fit hack am.

Thank you for dis important advice, di Facebook matter na real eye opener for anybody wey de carry all dem sensitive information de save for social media, if dis kind thing fit to happen to Facebook wey follow for tech giants, den e show say any site go fit to shutdown or hacked at anytime. No be only to store sensitive information, make we no also de click any unfamiliar links, unless we don verify say na legit im b, because hackers and scammers no get joy for dem mind. I de happy say Bitcoin no de for dat category, aldo na digital im be, but di developers stand gidigba like Aso rock, to protect investors funds and, God, no go let hackers to know dem secrets.

I just wan open my facebook, I see say e don automatically log me out, my body just weak self because it has been long I created the account, and since I login for my phone, I never log out again, I can’t even remember the password to the account, and like say I don even lost sim wey I use open the facebook account, so if the technical problem have been resolved, then I will start trying out random password, but the chances of me getting the facebook account back is low.

Plenty people dey make that mistake, I no go lie u me self don make that mistake before, but as I come see say na rubbish, I come delete am for the gmail wey I save am. The worst place to store your seed phrase is online, any of your account can easily be compromised, and people go get access to that your seed phrase. Anything wey you store online, make you know say e no dey private again.

Well it's true, I also store almost all of my documents in Google drive

That is foolishness.

That is stupidity.

You can see how those online storage so called cloud made some people to lose money after hackers were able to have access to their seed phrase. But as for someone that does so on social media, that is stupidity.

Right now so many people cant get access to their Facebook account because of some technical issues, and even if it comes up many account will be loss. The reason am bringing this up for discussion is  because some of us we think the social media and email are the best place to store important details. Some people consider online as a good place of store for wallet seedphrase. Anything can happen to the server of this social media where information are store and account might get lose which it will be so difficult to get the important information stored on it.