Online Profile Safety 101

Social Media networking is already undeniably part of everyone’s life right now. It’s fun to tell your family and friends about your day-to-day experiences especially when you’re miles apart with some of them working overseas. You itch to post pictures and a status update about a recent trip or show that irresistible watch you’ve just got from your boyfriend.

Despite the joy of technology making people connecting with each other easy, it also posts danger to society or at least the account users in these social networking sites. It’s easier for culprits to do their jobs. Daily routines and your whereaboutswill be known to the rest of the world if you’re not careful enough. Here are preventive measures to ensure safety from online crimes:

1. Be cautious with your privacy settings aways. If you don’t know the person who sent you a friend request invite, don’t accept it! Don’t be too hooked-up with Foursquare or Path to neglect setting your profiles to private.  Writing constant updates in your post boxes like “On my way to work” or “See you guys at I.T. Park” will not exempt you from giving strangers hints of your whereabouts. Part of social media etiquette is to only show important updates of yourself. So, the next time you hit that “post” button, think of yourself. Think, “Is this really worth sharing?”

2. Do not disclose your pet’s name or your car’s plate number or where your daughter goes to school or other private information about yourself or even about your family and relatives. Why would you, right? Are you willing to sacrifice your and your family’s safety for the sake of popularity?

3. Never take too much pictures. Yes, selfies have become a fad this time that even a photo of your own dog’s selfless you’re willing to post for that fame’s sake. Be content with yourself as who you are. Have pity on people, there are too much pictures of yourself! Yes, it is understandable that this is the fad that even men have been influenced by this revolution by taking vanity shots of themselves. But don’t do it too much!