We as a society spend a lot of time on social media. We think we know our followers, we think we know who is following us, but are we really sure? We need to be on our guard more when expressing ourselves over the internet and on social media pages. Social Media is flooded with content from billions of people and not all people have good intentions. People make fake accounts and you dont allows know who is seeing your post or viewing your page. People are always receiving spam and fake messages attempting to hack into accounts. We need to protect our privacy. I believe it starts with having a private account. There is an option with all social media accounts to be private or public, I think there is no reason to be public. You sure do some research on a friend or follow a request before accepting it. Also our social media corporations should do a better job of presenting red flags to us
When we make public posts we are under the impression that our audience is our followers but it is much wider than that. A post on your page may make its way to the “Explore” page which can be seen by anyone not only in the US but anyone around the whole world.
Additionally, when we create accounts we don’t just fill in our name and username, do you ever wonder why your email and phone number is needed? If you google your name your social media accounts will pop up. We need to deselect this option in our setting to keep our information off of search engines. Spammers and cybercriminals can detect your personal information for these search engines.
Lastly, we should not link all of our accounts together. For example when you sign up for different media accounts it asks if you’d like to continue with your Facebook or Google account, this is a simpler and faster way of creating an account so we choose the easy way to do it. But by linking our account all of our content is found much easier by other people and we give our privacy rights away to these websites.
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