Safety tips for social networking
In the new world, social networking is the buzz word. Social networking trend, quite literally, is a tsunami in the virtual world and capturing everyone's imagination. While they add value to a person's life, encourage the exchange of information, they are also a perfect medium for cybercrime.
10 Tips for Social Networking Safety and Fraud Protection
1. Use caution when you click links received in messages from your friends on your social Web site.
2. Don’t trust that a message is really from who it says.
3. To avoid giving away e-mail addresses of your friends, do not allow social networking services to scan your e-mail address book.
4. Type the address of your social networking site directly into your browser or use your personal bookmarks, to avoid possibly entering your account name and password into a dangerous fake site.
5. Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network.
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12 tips for safe social networking
TIP 1 – Beware of TMI: the five things you should never share
TIP 2 – Customize privacy options
TIP 3 – Limit work history details on LinkedIn
TIP 4 - Don't trust, just verify
TIP 5 – Control comments
TIP 6 – Avoid accidentally sharing personal details
TIP 7 – Search yourself
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5 Life-Saving Safety Tips When Using Social Networking Sites
- The most important tip is to evaluate your social networking profile and postings.
- Second tip is to read the rules and regulations and advices offered on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and follow them as closely as possible.
- Thirdly, you must never accept friend requests blindly.
- Fourthly, never give out your profile password to anyone expect for your parents or siblings.
- And finally, never meet anyone you have only met on social networking site in person.
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