Saturday, November 24, 2012

Why Privacy Is the Key Against Social Bullies and Identity Thieves


One of the best reasons to have social media privacy is because of the amount of people who want to do harm to a person on the social networks. There are an alarming amount of people who use the internet for no other reason than to discourage a person from using the internet. They enjoy making people feel bad about themselves and their internet skills. One of the best ways to avoid these people is through the use of social media privacy techniques. If a person can keep their posts and updates private, they will all but avoid these people.

The best thing for a business person or regular user to do on the social networks is to plan how they will use the social media systems before they use them. The problem with most people's social media campaigns is that they do not think through how they will use the system before they start using the system. This is because social media campaigns are supposed to be fun and exciting, however, they are also a place where a person can be attacked personally and professionally.

This is a sad fact that is true. There are plenty of people on the internet who do not care about the user's feelings and only want to use the social media platform to attack other people. They do this for their own need to have fun or they are trying to steal a person's identity. Unfortunately, most of the bigger social networks have made this far too easy for a good identity theft to do.

Many of the social media networks allow everyone to see all the information about a person or business even if they are not connected in any way shape or form. Most people don't even realize this but their place of birth and their birthday are exposed to strangers every day. Not all of those strangers have innocent uses in their hearts. This means that identity thieves have two things that a bank uses to identity the user.

This all happens because the social media system does not set the user's profile to private from the very beginning. This means everyone (friends, family, and foes) can see what the user posts and it means that they can take whatever information is available for any reason. Therefore, a person must be very careful on the social networking systems because they never know what piece of information is going to get them in trouble.

In closing, a person must be very careful who they let in their network and they must be careful what they say on the social media system. The best thing to do is to assume that nothing is private on the social media system because nothing is private on the social networks. This means that the social networks are in the practice of selling information and they do not keep things private. Therefore, a user (business or otherwise) must manage their own social network privacy and have a plan to make everything they say private.




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