The Tips for Social Networking Safety

The Internet is definitely not secure. Most of us have ever encountered security
problems in the social networks. The most common troubles arising in the network
are: the issues of confidentiality, hacking and stealing passwords and potential
problems in the workplace. Some tips how to deal with these problems are given in
this paper. When posting information about yourself in social media, anyone must be
prepared that a large number of people all over the world can see it. Thus, your
private life becomes public. Even if you take all the measures for your personal
information protection from people you don’t know, these attempts, may be useless
as there are many hacker programs that help to select passwords for popular websites
and hack them. Moreover, people face potential problems in the workplace because
of social networks use. For example, you can post information about colleagues or
your boss that can be interpreted as a disclosure of confidential information,
discrediting you in the eyes of the company, that may lead to serious consequences.