YOU HAVE YOUR SAY
EVERY week Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here are some from our report on banks and insurers spying on your social media . . . RULE number one: never use your real date of birth. From this single piece of data they can confirm your identity. R. S., Brighton. PEOPLE only have themselves to blame for giving away their whole life stories to social media sites. They don’t stop there — they upload pictures of their children and information about relatives. This is bound to come back to haunt you. T. L., Aberdeen. BY THE same argument, social media also help you get a mortgage. Maybe it’s not so bad. T. H., Oxford. I KNOW someone who put her struggles with mental health on her Facebook profile and wondered why she could never get a job interview. Of course employers check social media — it’s more honest than your CV. W. B., Plymouth. IT’D be good if firms paid YOU for your info, rather than a thirdparty website like Facebook. N. E., Kent. I STOPPED posting on Facebook and rarely use my account. I wonder if that will damage my credit score. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. S. K., Blackburn. WHY do they look at Facebook profiles to work out someone’s lifestyle when we know it’s full of people exaggerating their wealth and saying how wonderful their life is? P. M., Caerphilly. EVEN if these companies check your Facebook when considering you for a loan, there are lots of reasons that you could be turned down. If you’re going to share your private life with the world, it’s going to look. What do you expect? A.L., Stockton-on-Tees. WRITE to Tony Hazell at Ask Tony, Money Mail, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT or email asktony@dailymail.co.uk — please include your daytime phone number, postal address and a separate note addressed to the offending organisation giving them permission to talk to Tony Hazell. We regret we cannot reply to individual letters. Please do not send original documents as we cannot take responsibility for them. No legal responsibility can be accepted by the Daily Mail for answers given.