2. What is Social Media?
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3. Social media are computer based tools that
allow people, companies and other
organizations to create, share, or exchange
information, thoughts, ideas, and
pictures/videos through the virtual communities
and networks
◦ Basically, social media networking connects
people at low cost.
◦ Most social networking sites provide the
facility of messaging, chatting, e-mails, videos,
voice-chats, file sharing, blogging, discussion
groups and so on.
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4. Some social networking sites which have many privacy
issues but are very common:
◦ Facebook - 684,478 pieces of content are shared on
Facebook - Every minute
◦Twitter - 100,000 tweets are sent.
◦ Google - 2 million search queries are made on Google.
◦YouTube - 48 hours of video are uploaded toYouTube
◦ Instagram - 3,600 photos are shared on Instagram
◦Whatsapp -
◦IMO -
◦ Skype -
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5. 1. Privacy Issues like Hacking, Phishing,
Scamming, and spamming are effecting
people very badly.
2. After the November 2013, security breach
where hackers stole usernames and
passwords for nearly 2 million accounts at
Facebook, Google,Yahoo, LinkedIn,Twitter
and 93,000 other websites.
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6. Hacking - activities that breach defenses and
exploit weaknesses in a computer system or
network
Phishing - fraudulent attempt to get sensitive
information e.g usernames, passwords in an
electronic communication
Scamming - form of fraud, promising the victim a
significant share of a large sum of money
spamming - send the same message
indiscriminately to (a large number of internet
users).
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7. Social sites like Facebook and twitter have the highest privacy
issues.
◦ Facebook:
◦ Facebook has over a billion active users
◦Teenagers of almost (18 to 35 age) are Facebook addicted.
◦ Fake Profile and ID's with fake names (like Angel Pari, Innoxent
Ali, Cute girl, Decent boy, etc...) is one of biggest problems on
Facebook.
◦ Strange people try to get into our profiles.
◦ Accounts can be easily hacked by using different hacking
websites.
◦ According to the news from PCWorld Business Center which was
published on April 22, 2010, we can know that a hacker named
Kirllos illegally stole and sold 1.5 million Facebook IDs to some
business companies who want to attract potential customers by
using advertisements on Facebook.
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8. Twitter:
1.Twitter has mostly dodged privacy concerns. Facebook gets all
the bad press, but the bigger threat to your online privacy these
days might be yourTwitter account.
2.Twitter allows people to share information with their followers.
Any messages that are not switched from the default privacy
setting are public, and thus can be viewed by anyone with a
Twitter account.
3. Users can make their timelines private, but once a tweet is re-
tweeted by another user, it irreversibly becomes public.
4. Another issue involving privacy onTwitter deals with users
unknowingly disclosing their information through tweets.Twitter
has location services attached to tweets, which some users don’t
even know are enabled. Many users tweet about being at home
and attach their location to their tweet, revealing their personal
home address.
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9. 1. Become familiar with the privacy settings of any
social website you use.
2. Don’t share your age, birthday, birthplace, address,
phone number, e-mail, and vacation plans,
3. Beware of strangers requests.
4. Always Logout your account on any social network.
5. Use cautions when using third-party applications.
6.Take additional precautions if you are the victim of
stalking, harassment or domestic violence.
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10. Limit personal information
Use proper privacy settings
Practice strong security
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11. Don’t friend people you don’t know!
Never friend somebody more than once
(the 2nd is often a spoofed account)
Limit posts to be viewable by only your
friends
Limit sharing and photo tagging
Limit 3rd party applications
Remove location services
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12. Use strong passwords at least 8 characters,
using letters, numbers, and symbols.
Enable two-factor authentication.
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13. Assume everything you post can be seen
by anybody, regardless of your settings.
Either don’t share personal info at all, or use
your privacy settings to limit who can see it.
Maiden names, date of birth, Kids dates of
birth, Schools, anything that correlates with
any security question never answer anybody
on or off-line.
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