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Social Networking has become a major part of our web experience these days. Social networks are vast websites where people can meet new people and befriends them. Once done, you can keep in touch with them via statuses, photos, blogs, messages, and more. Lots of people do use social networks like MySpace, Twitter and Facebook on an almost daily base. It is an ever-growing industry with a fast-growing user base of millions and millions of users. Because of such popularity, all those sites are being used by cybercriminals. Those bad people will try many ways to spread viruses, steal people’s personal infos and to do online crime. The security system of those sites are indeed trusted by most people thus those sites are targeted by hackers.
To protect your personal data and your computer system from fraudulent activities that might occur on those social networks is very important for any social network’s user, including yourself. Professional antivirus products can monitor your computer’s system at the same moment you are using it (besides all the generic possibilities that those products do offer). This is a great thing that many people do like to have.
Even if the previous methods are good and reliable, other manual methods can be needed since social websites can be indeed very risky for many computers. The following steps can be used to achieve such a method:
· Double check what exactly you are making available on the internet– Any content (pictures, videos, infos) that you think might be used against you should not be published at all. Any similar content, like photos and videos, that tarnish your personal image should neither be published.
· Be prudent about all your new online friends– Your online friends found on those social networks should be the kind you would normally join and group with in real life situations. Do not add friends just because you want many of them. Some of those new friends might indeed be some cyber criminals, or online stalkers. Those people should not be part of your online friends lists.
· Your infos should not be visible by every people on a given network– Those social networks have options where the friends of your friends are indeed able to see all your personal infos. This is of course can be turned off. You should always set your profile to be only visible by your friends and not anyone else.
· Never reply or even obey any instructions coming from unverified messages– Hackers will send messages having as attachments compromised applications. Those messages will look like that they are coming from the development team of the social network you’re using. If that message is asking you to download and to install some programs: don’t trust it at first. Be aware that this is some kind of trick by cyber criminals to install on your PC some malware or related programs.
· Do not post when you are leaving on vacation to public profiles. If not, potential criminals might target your house knowing you will be outside town.
To have a great and safe online social networking experience, you should do the previous steps as part of your online routine. They will help the social networks to stop those cyber criminals. This way, you will help others social networks users and the whole experience of everyone will be a great one.