Saturday 29 March 2014

Some Safe Social Networking Tips

By Alex D White


There has been an increase in the number of individuals making use of different social media websites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Instagram. However, with the increase in the popularity of these websites, there has also been an increase in online criminals. Some of these criminals include hackers, identity thieves, virus writers and spammers. Therefore, to ensure that unauthorized individuals cannot access your account, it is advisable to be aware of some safe social networking skills.

You need to make sure that you pick the social networking site that you would like to join carefully. Before joining the network, it is important to assess the site and find out if website monitors the information that people publish. It might also be important to discover if the website safeguards private information of people or people can have the ability to access these details easily. Spend some time evaluating the various sites until you get an appropriate one.

It is important that you know the kind of information that you have published about yourself. It is very simple for hackers to either access financial accounts or any other accounts and just click on the "forgot password" link in your account. They might then enter your social networking account and answer the security question in line with the information you have provided in your account. Therefore, you should develop your personal security questions and take caution when providing information about yourself as many people will view this information.

You should also be very careful before clicking links that may be in messages you receive from friends. Some of these links may be a way of spreading different viruses. Therefore, never click a link just because it is in a message that a friend may have sent.

You should be very careful when downloading extras to use on your social network account. Some of these third party applications may be created specifically to be able to access personal information from your account. A person may therefore use your personal information for his or her own good. Therefore, make sure that it is safe to download a particular third party application.

You are likely to get very many friends requests once you set up your account in different social media platforms. It is advisable that you actually know a person before you accept them as your friend. This is to avoid scenarios where people create accounts with fake profiles only to use some of your personal information once you accept them as your friend.

Email marketing works by a company sending marketing information to different emails. Some companies may scan your e-mail address book in order to send information to these emails. You should make use of different approaches to ensure that people cannot access your email-address book.

It is important that you do not just trust any information such as messages at their face value. In some instances, the content might not be really from the person it may indicate it may be coming from. Hackers can effortlessly access different accounts and send messages that could appear as if your friend has sent the message when in actual sense they have not.




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