precautions while using facebook

Your profile picture is viewed by millions of user on the social networking platform. Thus, adding fuzz or smearing might help you in preventing misuse of your profile picture. Do not log on to your social network page from public computers such as internet caf

Ignore an email asking for your social networking account details. Do not ever provide your user id and password to such mail sender as they might be spammers. Do not automatically trust that posts are from who they claim they are; if your workmate sends you a private message asking for some confidential information first verify that he/she did really send you that message as their account might have been compromised.

The social networking sites help us stay connected with friends, share photographs, exchange ideas and so on. Some people are so obsessed with social networking that they even tell what they had in lunch, who are the people they are meeting, what they did during the weekend and information so private and personal.

Facebook has several privacy settings that allow you to share your pictures, videos and information with only a few people. You can make this distinction even for the people in your friends list. However, most girls are either not aware about this feature or dont really bother to make use of it. Prevent yourself, your pictures and personal information from getting into the wrong hands. Privatize the information you post on Facebook, reveal it only before certain trustworthy users.

There are plenty of weirdos and dangerous people out there. No matter what they say or do, dont believe them. The best thing you can do is, only accept friend requests from known people. If you really want to add strangers, make sure that you dont share any personal information with them. Also block them from viewing your personal pictures.

Dont use your Facebook status application as a diary by typing all your plans for the day. The world doesnt need to know where you are up to for the day. You never know if it is read by a wrong person, what they might do. Keep that information only for your close friends and family.

Facebook has an application that shows how strong the password you are using, really is. Make sure you always choose a password that nobody else will guess. Avoid using obvious things like your date of birth, name, boyfriends name and so on. Instead you can mix numbers and alphabets to make a really strong password for your Facebook account. Your password is like the keys of your home, dont share it with anyone. Keep it only to yourself and change it often.

Whats a bigger pain, logging in anew for each session or explaining how that offensive tweet got on the corporate account? Id let you consider it, but if you have to think about it, I dont want you in charge. Do not send confidential information through a social networking site even if someone who has legitimate access to that information asks you to. See point number 2. Beware of what links you click and what software you download and install. Do not trust links/software sent by your friends implicitly as they themselves might not be aware it includes malware or their account might have been compromised.

Anyone who knows me well understands that I can swear like a truck driver (those poor truck drivers get a bad rap by the way), but you will rarely see me swear in my public social media posts. I may get edgy here and there, but the fewer F bombs I drop, the smaller the risk of one slipping into the wrong social media stream. Its a personal choice with which others will differ, but I like to lower the odds (metrics!).

A lot of this, outside of the mechanical mistakes, is relying on the judgment of someone representing your brand. Im not going to say a 25 year old cant manage your social media (and people on my teams might fall into that age group; you all are exempt if you read this, of course), but I will say that maturity