Your Social Media Privacy Settings Matter

Rik Ferguson is Trend Micro’s vice president of security research. He created a series of Internet security advice videos to help consumers. In this video, he talks about the importance of privacy settings on social media sites. He also offers some tips on how to protect yourself when you’re networking and socializing online.

 

Here are a few highlights from the video:

Never give more information than is necessary to operate an online account. Usually this includes an e-mail, username, and a password. If your birthdate is required, consider using a nonsense date like January 1, 1904 since your real birthday is tied to important IDs, like your driver’s license, social security number, or passport. Never use a work email address and consider creating a separate one for social media sites. Make sure that your posts are not indexed into search engines. Each social media site handles this in a different way. Be cautious of what you post on any social media site. Just because you can post it, doesn’t mean that you should. If you want help editing privacy settings on social media accounts, use a product like Trend Micro™ Security, which provides a privacy scanner for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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