Follow these 10 tips to ensure safety in the surf in the world of social networking.1. Do not exposure of Personal Information In Detail
In the social networks you may unconsciously spit too much personal information. In fact, the information you convey in social networking is used for the purpose of exposure is not good by foreign parties. Therefore, do not provide detailed information about yourself. For example, you include your home address, email, to a private phone number on Facebook, allowing foreigners to conduct terror. .
For example, on Twitter and Facebook feature 'what are you doing right now?', Do not let you post too much information, such as "go to Bali family, the house was left empty". Such information risk to be utilized by foreign intruders. Then be careful in displaying information that can identify your location offline.
2. Each site studied Policy
Social network has all the information you enter into it. So, what do they do with that information? Of course, they collect information about you for a purpose. Typically, social networking sites, according to terms of use them, have the right to use information about you that they collect for interesting advertising.
Therefore, the policy review each site on how they use your information, because each site has different policies. Does the site to share information about you to others? So how third-party applications make use of information about yourself? If you are observant, your information may be shared with many parties, which potentially interfere with your privacy.
3. Privacy controls
To avoid misuse of your information by foreign parties, one of the steps that can be done is to control privacy settings. Through the privacy settings, you can arrange to have the profile and your information can only be seen by those who make friends with you on the site, foreigners can not see. Facebook for example, allows us to control privacy in more detail, such as certain people can not specifically see the photo album or our wall, and others.
4. Forbidden For info revealed
The information is forbidden to be explained, because this could trigger the risk of identity theft include date of birth, home address, home phone, to other sensitive information like bank account numbers, PINs, credit card information to.
5. Only friends with People You Know
Social networking is an area where maybe you can make friends with strangers who have never previously known. To avoid such good intentions are not identity theft, spam and other risks, only accept friend invitations from people you know in the real world. Even if you are friends with them from the virtual world, make sure that you trust. However, the safest is to limit the amount of information about yourself.
6. Controlling Comments
Blogs in general have a comment facility that can be controlled, so incoming comments to the administrators approval before it is displayed on the web. By controlling the comment, then we avoid the risk of spam, where people can leave comments that may have been a dangerous link.
7. Limit Use of Application
Thousands of applications on Facebook, and how you can determine the good / bad an application in disseminating your information? Course difficult. The best advice is to only use the application with a good review and recommended many people. Limit the use of applications, the less need not be used. Avoid new applications that have not been much used by people.
8. Do Gratuitous Install
During surfing in cyberspace, you may often see a time when suddenly you are asked to download and install a file. Do not do it, because of the possibility that dangerous, especially if the command from the video. Mode is used when going to play a video, you are prompted to download a specific codec or plugin first, when in fact you download a Trojan. Make a download or install only from sites you trust.
9.Password
Only use alphanumeric passwords, or a combination of alphabet and numbers, so that is strong enough and not predictable. One more thing, do not use one password for all logins, so you can maintain the confidentiality of your other login if the password if one fell into the hands of other parties.
10. Be careful and Profiles Site Against Fraud
We have more and more phishing sites, ie sites that closely resembles the original site but it's not. These sites aim to steal the user's identity. Therefore, avoid this by doing your bookmarks to your favorite sites you are, especially where you have a login. Do not click on links from the outside, but directly enter a URL address. Be careful also of fake profiles, ie profiles which are controlled by foreign parties, which then sends a message in the form of a link or install command which had evil intentions.
So are 10 tips in doing social networking safely. Ten tips to do this and always alert, then you will be safe from crime that utilizes social networking!
