September 25, 2024
3 min 
STAY SAFE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THESE SECURITY TIPS
Social networking has been working as an excellent platform which assists people in meeting their personal and professional interests as well as needs. Social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn have gained enormous popularity by contenting the need of both teens and adults. For youth, it has helped in socializing and sharing events, posts as well as work of their field of interest. While for adults, social media has enhanced the outreach of their respective business and helped in interacting with like-minded individuals.
However, numerous cases of theft, hacking, fraud taking place on social media have been reported. Many hackers impersonate an individual’s profile which may cause degradation of reputation and status. Hence, in order to enjoy the multiple facilities provided by social media while avoiding these risks, it is important to take some effective security measures.
ALLOCATE DIFFERENT PASSWORD FOR DIFFERENT SOCIAL NETWORK SITES
It may be rigorous to assign different passwords for each social media site and remember them. But assigning the same password for all will make it much easier for a hacker to identify and gain access to multiple social media accounts in one go. It is better to assign diverse password than to lose access to all your social media accounts.
SHARE YOUR DETAILS CAUTIOUSLY
Prioritize as to whom you want to share your personal details with. Share your data with only friends and family. One should not reveal their home address, place of birth, contact number, etc. This may lead to the risk of data theft or fraud. Further, never feed your bank details like card details, passwords or security code on any networking site as it makes you more likely to fall prey to data theft and fraud.
ADJUST YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS
Almost all the social networking sites have default privacy settings and users are generally ignorant to go through them and adjust according to their priority. Whereas privacy settings allow a user to block unknown or fake profile from seeing their personal information. User can regulate the settings in a way that only his/her family, friends and relatives can see the posts, photos, status, etc.
LIMIT YOUR WORK PROFILE UPDATE
Some social networking sites like LinkedIn allow you to update your work profile and search for job opportunities accordingly. Displaying too much about work history may reveal a lot about personal life and the critical data on resumes can be used skillfully for extracting personal data. Hence, it is advised to avoid feeding sensitive personal information on such sites.
REGULARLY CHECK YOUR PROFILE
To check your account’s security, try searching for your profile from other’s account. This will acknowledge you of the information that has been displayed on your profile and who all can access your profile. This will assist you in adjusting your privacy settings. Further, by searching yourself in the search engine will reveal if there is any fake profile by your name or personal details.
