The popularity of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn has increased at astonishing level. These platforms can be used for professional network and job searches. And these are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands. So the security and safety or other issues are kept a close watch on.
Just as someone wrote a security issue related with LinkedIn, so here I am going to introduce some tips to protect your personal date from abusing or any illegal using.
- Ignore any links embedded in email messages that appear to come from a social networking service. Instead, connect to the site directly by typing its URL or using a bookmark. This will help avoid phishing-style incidents.
- Use HTTPS for as many interactions with the social networking site as possible. These settings can be enabled on Twitter and on Facebook. On LinkedIn you can manually change the URL include “https” on some pages. Alternatively, install a“force HTTPS” type browser extension.
- Review the list of apps and sites that you granted access to your social networking accounts. Deauthorize the services you no longer use; it is usually easy to authorize them again when the need arises.
- Don’t include in your social networking communications potentially sensitive information about other people. For instance, some parents don’t like revealing the names of their kids online. Understand and respect your friends’ privacy preferences.
- Be skeptical of job postings on social networking sites until you confirm that you’re interacting with an official representative of the company where you’d be applying. Avoid responding to offers that sound too good to be true, such as high-paying work-from-home gigs.
- If a friend asks you for money using chat or messaging functionality of a social networking site, confirm that you’re interacting with the person you know, rather than an impostor or a bot that compromised the account. This could be a variation of the stuck-in-London scam.
- Be careful clicking on links that use unusual URL-shortening services or those that promise to display shocking or embarrassing videos. If such links bring you to a site that doesn’t feel right, close the browser tab without clicking any buttons on the page to avoid clickjacking attacks and other scams.
- Don’t download any tools or software updates when prompted to do so after clicking a link you obtained from a social networking site. This could be an attempt to propagate malware.
Source: http://blog.zeltser.com/post/8503487922/11-social-networking-security-tips
And another personal tip is that when you need to create an account, never simply use your date of birthday to be the password, and use different password for different accounts.
