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How to stay private on social media

It's a fact of life that our personal information is floating around cyberspace, with basic facts like hometown, gender and alma mater freely available with a quick Google search. This is the tradeoff that's been accepted ever since online shopping and social media have come to dominate how we buy goods and keep in contact with people.  In the wake of recent concerns regarding phone privacy and the now widely known mass surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden, concerns about the security of personal data is becoming more pronounced, particularly information put on social media profiles.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

MSU head coach Tom Izzo sad his seniors' career ended this way

There were five seconds left in No. 2 seed MSU’s shocking first round loss to the No. 15 seed Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. And it was then MSU’s three senior stars -- Denzel Valentine, Matt Costello and Bryn Forbes -- checked out of a game and walked off a basketball floor in an MSU jersey for the last time. It was really over. It had actually just happened. Middle Tennessee had knocked off MSU, 90-81, in one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. Then, fifteen minutes after the final buzzer sounded, those same three visibly emotional players wiped away tears and walked with their arms around each other to face the media at a post game press conference. This is the way all their careers had come to an end -- 112 victories, a Sweet Sixteen, an Elite Eight, a Final Four and two Big Ten Tournament Championships later, they were done. “I can’t believe what’s going on,” Costello said.