Saturday 9 November 2013

Beware Of Using Social Media

Social media where it takes us. We know that social media is medium that has been used for communication, chatting, sharing photos, ideas, discussion, video, overview profile and others. Social media consists of many from twitter, blogger, Facebook, we chat and others form. However it is safe using those media. Most of researcher believe that social media such as Facebook and twitter brought more negative to those who used those media than brought any good reasons. This is because most of crime such as suicide, rape, stolen identity, murdered and kidnapped come from using this form of media. Moreover this form of media also has been used for illegal activity by some such as in business field they used for drug and human trafficking, illegal scheme and others.


Communication By Various forms of Media


For some people especially student they used this media for bullying. They make any comment and post any status such as picture, video or any words that can make people that victim become embarrassed and shame. All of this make us feel and thinking whether using this form of media is safe and good to be used for socializing activity. Although we can still be used this form of media for social activity however we need to be aware of using it as the way to protect ourselves from becoming victims of this media.

There are certain thing that you need to be aware when using this media as the way to protect yourself from been in the situation that can causes you to be victim of this media. They are various step that you can take below i list all step you can take to protect yourselves from becoming victim of social media:

  • Do not post any confidential information regarding yourself such as your photos
  • Do not post any word or comment that can make people become embarrassed or angry with your action such as fool, fuck, i hate you, crazy, and others words.
  • Do not share any information with whom you do not know.
  • Always keep private and expose any information regarding to yourself to whom you know such as your friend, parents, teacher, cousins and others
  • Do simply making friend in online world
  • Do not be so honest by providing all necessary information about yourselves such as where you live, phone, account number, siblings and other information that you think need to be keep secret and confidential
  • Do not give your account number to any people even it is your best ever friend you have in world
  • Beware of any business, rewards and any ads available at social media. Do not simply trust towards those information
  • Do not post any of your work project such as report, proposal, assignment to any of your employee, boss or your worker. It is best practice to used email to send those work or project. This is because sent those information towards social media can be known by any third party
  • The most important contact any local authorities, government agency or law enforcement if you are the one of the victim of using those social media.