As with many other websites today, people registered on our site, now have the opportunity to login using your Facebook or Twitter logins and to sync your PI profile with your FB and Twitter profiles. Unless you are very familiar with Social Networking, you may be scratching your head as to what that means and wondering if that is a good idea. Well, it certainly is not a good idea if you don’t know what it entails, so in this document, we are going to show you both how to sync your accounts and what it means.

What are the benefits and implications of synching my accounts?
Benefits:

1. It allows you to deal with fewer usernames and passwords.
Now, instead of keeping track of all your names and passwords, you can just use your Facebook logon at most of the sites you go to. Many find that to be a simplification over the present situation!

2. When registering a certain portion of the information you need is drawn from Facebook, so you don’t have to do a full registration.

3. When you comment on a blog or article on the PI site, that activity can show up on your Facebook Wall. (If you don’t have a Facebook account, this may not make a lot of sense. In this document we can’t teach you about other sites such as Facebook or Twitter, but if you are registered with them, you are more likely to understand the value. We do try to provide links to explain the various terms and concepts.)

What it means: the implications of synching accounts:
1. Privacy. Though Facebook and Twitter have various privacy policies in place tailored for their site,. You will have to read for yourself the other site’s policies, but you can know that a policy on one site, such as Facebook, generally carries over. An example is if you wish to make your birth date invisible on Facebook, it will also be invisible on a synched PI profile.

Though they have privacy measures in place, the basic thrust of Facebook and Twitter is one of openness. There is no way to hide certain activities on one site from your Facebook wall, except to break completely the communication between the two sites.

When you "connect" your Facebook account to your account on another site, you can automatically see which friends of yours have already connected their accounts, and they can see you as well. Facepile.

2. Security.

Facebook and Twitter have specially developed tools which maintain a high degree of security and this communication between the sites is not considered to have any higher risk than you would find on the individual sites themselves.

For a more in-depth look and directions how to connect:   Download Social Networking