This document outlines steps to develop a social media security plan. It recommends establishing a social media policy, identifying potential reputation risks, using strong passwords, and protecting web content from unauthorized access. Specific tips include only posting content you don't mind others seeing, changing passwords regularly, and not falling for fake ads or friend requests from compromised accounts. The document stresses that social media is now a permanent part of everyday life and can impact jobs and education if not managed carefully and securely.

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Social Media Security Plan
Adrie Newton

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What Needs To Be Done
 Establish a social media policy
 Identify potential reputation risk
 Only appropriate content is published on your website
 Develop strong password policies
 Ensure appropriate steps are taken to protect your web content
from unauthorized access or modification
 Don’t fall for fake offers/ads

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Step 1: Establishing a Social Media
Policy
 Before even making any social media account the users own
personal policies should be determined
 How much time will I spend on the social media site per day?
 Should downloading the social media app be allowed on my smart
phone?
 Am I going to allow anyone to follow/friend me? Or am I only going to
accept and request people I actually know?
 What type of information am I going to allow my friends/followers to
read about me?
 Phone number
 Address
 Where I work or attend school
 Who I am in a relationship with and my family is
 What my hobbies, interests, favorite books and movies are
 Email address

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Step 2: Identify Potential
Reputational Risks
 Realize that everything that is posted Online, is never to be
forgotten. Once you have shared that picture, status, video, etc.
to the world, it is no longer truly just yours.
 Only post things that you wouldn’t mind your Grandmother
seeing, or being on the front page of the paper.
 Try to limit the amount of time/posts on social media, while
intoxicated.
 Cyber bulling is a serious crime, and leaves paper trails.

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Step 3- Develop Strong Password
Polices
 Most social media sites now are requiring that a password be
eight characters long, with an uppercase letter, and some sort
of symbol or number.
 Even with this enforced by the site, take it upon yourself to
change your password periodically.
 Don’t choice a password that is too easy:
 Password, with any type of number or symbol after it
 Your first, or last name
 Don’t share your password with anyone or leave your account
signed in on anyone else's devices.

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Protect Your Web Content from Unauthorized
Access or Modification
 Social Media sites are giving more security options. The tricky
part is to find them, and alter them to your comfortably. When
first making a website, all security settings are turned off. Go to
settings and choice what you would like to share to friends, the
world and what would like to be kept private. Like:
 Photos, posts, comments and personal information
 After setting the appropriate security, check to see “what others
see” when they look at your page.
 This can be with friends, the public, or someone that you have hid
things from. Just to verify everything is how you intended them to
be.

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Step 5- Don’t Fall for Fake
Ads/Offers
 Many times on facebook, twitter, and instragram, ads are
posted to your newsfeeds. Most of them saying “You just won a
free iPhone! Click here to claim your prize” This is a scam, and
it will compromise your account.
 Also messages, friends of your who’s accounts have been
compromised will most often send you messages trying to get
you to click on a link.
 For example: “OMG, have you heard what they did to your picture?!
Look at this,” And they include some type of link
 This is a type of fraud, and will cause you too, to have this virus on
your account

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Becoming Second Nature..
 If more people thought about there social media plan before
making an account, they wouldn’t be in such distress later
down the road.
 Social media is becoming part of our everyday lives, not just for
social actives, but work and school related too.
 Business's are not just looking at your resume to find out what kind
of work ethic or person you are, they are turning to a more reliable
source: social media. Whether or not you get the job is now highly
congruent with who you are on social media.
 If you are a big partier, who never has anything good to say on
their site, you can think again before getting that dream job you
wanted.

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Becoming Second Nature. Continued
 Now colleges and even high schools are looking more deep
into students social media websites. Teenagers and young
adults need to understand that sometimes privacy is a good
thing.
 Everyone does not need to know that you were at a underage party,
or that you do drugs. Better yet, YOU shouldn’t want anyone to
know. These types of posts, are not only getting you in trouble, but
limiting your chances of getting into the dream college you always
wanted. Its not just business that look at social media sites for more
personal information, it schools too.

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Lets Get Serious..
 If people started to realize that social media’s isn’t just a site to
be “cool” or to brag about how amazing your life is, that it’s
sites to reconnect and express yourself. Social media is Online.
Once information is Online, it is never forgotten. Privacy, is
real. Security is out there helping to protect us, only if we are
smart enough to wake up and see it. Facebook, twitter and etc.
are trying to help make Online a safer place. Now as people, it
is our turn to not only take what is available to us, but learn
from previous lessons. Don’t make the same mistakes that we
have read about, witnessed with our own eyes. Instead stand
up and realize that social media is a privilege.