{"id":89416,"date":"2020-11-06T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T08:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=89416"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T10:25:14","slug":"staying-safe-on-social-media-five-things-to-keep-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/staying-safe-on-social-media-five-things-to-keep-in-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying safe on social media: Five things to keep in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet is full of the dangers irresponsible social media usage can cause. Here, at Quick Heal, we have written at length about how social media is used to commit financial frauds<\/a> and how you can check that your social media accounts are safe by answering a few questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For all the fear around social media, it\u2019s important to remember that is as safe or dangerous as how you use it. Just like driving, if you follow some simple, basic precautions and be responsible, it\u2019s perfectly possible to stay safe on social media from a plethora of threats.<\/p>\n

Here are a few short and easy-to-use maxims to follow when using social media.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 Share with care<\/h2>\n

Everything doesn\u2019t need to go on social media. Sure, it\u2019s a platform to share your thoughts with everybody, but even then, not everything needs to go there. Personal and identifiable information (like detailed photos of your house and landmarks) can give potential thieves the address to your house. And it\u2019s not just financial threats, remember that whatever you share (text, photo or video) is going to be there for eternity even if you delete it.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0 Be aware of who can see what<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s a basic rule to keep in mind \u2013 if you\u2019re active on a social media website, you should be completely aware of who can see what you\u2019re doing there. That means taking out the time to go into your privacy settings and making tweaks as required. Ensure that only the people you want can see the things you share.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 Protect your account<\/h2>\n

All your social media accounts are a treasure trove of information for a cyberattacker. If you don\u2019t want your accounts to fall into the wrong hands, it\u2019s your responsibility to ensure that only you can access your account \u2013 and not anyone else. That starts from maintaining strong passwords<\/a> for all your accounts, keeping multi-factor authentication on, to ensuring that every device you use your social media account from, whether it\u2019s a smartphone, laptop or desktop, is secured.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe everything you see<\/h2>\n

Social media has made it difficult to verify everything you see while holding the ability to emotionally influence you. So, there will be thousands of people you\u2019ll encounter on social media with many sob stories asking for a little bit of financial help to get by. Some of them will seem very convincing and you\u2019ll be moved to donate a small portion of your savings for a good cause. But, not so fast. The more convincing the story is, the warier you should be. Don\u2019t believe everything you see in the big bad world of social media.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 Keep your mobile phone protected<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re among the thousands who mostly use social media from their phones, you must have a degree of protection on your mobile device as well. Consider Quick Heal Total Security<\/a> for Android for advanced protection from all manners of threats. Quick Heal also offers a free app called Quick Heal Mobile Security<\/a> which offers free protection for your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Internet is full of the dangers irresponsible social media usage can cause. Here, at Quick Heal, we have written at length about how social media is used to commit financial frauds and how you can check that your social media accounts are safe by answering a few questions. For all the fear around social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":89417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,92,146,24,151,788,60,1513,109],"tags":[534,426],"class_list":["post-89416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-linkedin","category-malware","category-password","category-safe-banking","category-smartphone","category-whatsapp","category-youtube","tag-cybersecurity","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91561,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89416\/revisions\/91561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}