When developing a
profile for the average blogger site they all seem to ask for the usual
information. What is your name? What
type of user name? Then some will ask
for date of birth, or location, and email address. These are just some identifiers to verify
this isn’t a phony programmer stealing your information. Then once the profile has been generated, it
will them start to develop the page towards your interest by asking questions
about music, movies, hobbies and so on.
Usually this is to also help you find people with like minded
interest.
When it comes to social
media a lot of people can and are being taken advantage of, those that are
unfamiliar with formats will just give out any personal information. This is one of the biggest issues with fraud
these days. Elderly who are not computer
savvy are commonly seeing these issues.
Then you have the hackers that just take whatever they want off of
someone’s page. I recommend that you set
up every webpage you have with strict privacy settings. This will save you a lot of headache if
anyone ever gets a hold of your personal information.
I prefer not to use
Social Media a whole lot. My personal
privacy is very important plus my security in my occupation is very high. So it is requested that we as employees try
to stay away as much as possible. I
don’t mind using Linked in from time to time but that is about it for me. If I can’t gain access to something with just
minimal criteria then I normally don’t bother with it.
For those that are out
there with a large foot print. How many
of you have been exposed to some type of computer scam? I suggest you search yourself and verify on a
regular basis. Doing that may stop a
headache before it develops into something very time consuming.
