The Power Point gives an overview of the Social Media and its related Concerns. It also talks who to be safe while surfing the Social Media Websites.

1. Social Media and Security.
How to Ensure Safe Social
Networking?
Presented By:
Ishfaq Majid

2. What is Social Media?
Social media is a computer-based technology
which facilitates the sharing of
• Ideas
• thoughts
• information
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3. Cont.
By design, social media is internet-based and gives users quick
electronic communication of content. The content includes
• personal information
• Documents
• Videos
• Photos
The users engage with social media often via computer, tablet
or smartphone via web-based software or web application.
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4. Cont.
• Social media originated as a way to interact with friends
and family but was later adopted by businesses which
wanted to take advantage of a popular new communication
method to reach out to customers.
• The power of social media is the ability to connect and share
information with anyone on Earth, or with many people
simultaneously.
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5. Most popular social networks worldwide
• Compilation of the most popular social networks
worldwide by active users (October, 2018) prepared by
Statista.
• It gives a clear picture of the number of active users (in
millions) with Facebook ruling supreme.
• With over 2 billion active users Facebook holds the majority
market share.
• YouTube is second with Facebook-owned, WhatsApp and
Messenger not far behind.
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6. What happens in one minute on Facebook
• 243,055 photos are uploaded by users
• 100,000 friends are requested
• 13,888 apps are installed
• 3,298,611 items are shared
• 50,000 links are posted
• 15,277,777 like and share buttons are viewed on other
websites. (Ahmad, 2014).
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7. The Social Media Concern
• Most social network users share a large amount of their
private information in their social network space. This
information ranges from contact information, comments,
images, videos, etc.
• Many users publish their information publicly without careful
consideration.
• Moreover, social network users tend to have a high level of
trust toward other social network users. They tend to accept
friend requests easily, and trust items that friends send to
them (Gunatilaka, 2011).
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8. Internet Security Threat Report, 2018
• India emerged as third most vulnerable country in terms of
risk of cyber threats, such as malware, spam and
ransomware in 2017. The report was published by security
solutions provider Symantec.
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9. How Social Media security issue arises
• Forgetting to log out
• Logging on fake website
• Lack of Privacy
• Clicking on Enticing Ads
• Using Third Party Apps
• Common Passwords
• Clicking malicious links
• Using Virtual Private Networks
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10. How to be ensure safe Social Networking
• Clearing browser history
• Two factor verification
• Updating Privacy Setting
• Avoid clicking ads on social media
• Avoid using third party apps
• Minimizing the use of Virtual Private Networks
• Using different and strong passwords
• Don’t trust a message
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11. Conclusion
• The world is getting closer and everyone wants to be connected.
Static blogs and websites are losing popularity.
• The information comes to users rather than users have to make
effort to get the information. After all the advantages, the
problem that arises is of information overload and security.
• Social networks, unlike the common media, do not have a pattern
as to how much information has to be conveyed and where to
draw the line.
• Security might be area of concern where people can get illegal
access to a user’s information. The future of social networking
looks very promising but still it has to deal with the problems
associated with it.
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12. References
Ahmad, I. (2014). What Happens in Just one Minute on Facebook.
Socialmediatoday. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/1rqAR8,
retrieved on 21st January 2019.
Gunatilaka, D. (2011). A Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in
Social Networks. Washington University. Retrieved from
https://goo.gl/JfbUp2, retrieved on 21st January 2018.
Global social networks ranked. The Statistics Portal. Retrieved from
https://goo.gl/cuuGTZ, retrieved on 22nd January 2018.
Internet Security Threat Report (2018). Symantec. 23. Retrieved
from https://goo.gl/wPHtHX, retrieved on 22nd January
2018.
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13. Social media is fine, depending on how you use it.
(Edward Enninful)
Thank You
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