Seven sins in social networks

Admit it: you’re addicted to social networks. However, very few people consider the risks arising from use of these sites. Therefore CSOonline consult the IT experts to list the typical errors that are allowed, and how we can avoid them.

Excessive share of corporate information
This happens when one employee, excited by the project on which his company works published information about it in social networks. You may question as medicine against cancer, and a car that is driven by waste materials.
By sharing important information about intellectual property company that work, they help competitors. They can easily find a way to duplicate the idea or to have it stolen by hiring hacker who penetrate the network of the company.
The mixing of personal and professional life
This often happens when someone is using social networks to maintain both business and entertainment. Sometimes the contact list includes not only colleagues but friends and family members.
Very often communication with friends and family can be quite unacceptable in the eyes of business associates and colleagues. The potential employer may skip off a job candidate after candidate see pictures from the party for his birthday.
Sometimes, however, is difficult to divide the work of privacy when using social networks. Employees of media companies are often used as its known to increase the attendance of their sites to attract advertisers.
Ultimately, it is important to be aware exactly what is your reason to attend a social network.
Using social networks for revenge
It is not excluded any employee who has been suddenly reduced to render their discontent through social networks. Publishing content Angry condition can lead to very unpleasant consequences, because it can be referred to throughout the network and you zlepostavi.
Indiscriminate accumulation Contact

For some users of social networking all about accumulating as many contacts. This may seem harmless or at worst slightly annoying. But when quantity becomes more important than quality, it is not excluded to add a false momentum artist, a thief or terrorist identities.

Using the same passwords
Very often people use the same password to all social networks, which often coincides with the password for their online bank account or PC. If someone malicious to get your password for social network, this means that it gets access to everything.
Adoption of any invitations

The biggest social network Facebook is known that there are applications for everything – from invitations to cocktail virtual participation in various causes. For some users the adoption of these calls is as natural as breathing. Unfortunately, someone might send you an invitation that looks like it is your friend. After its adoption is likely to spread a virus on your PC.

Do not endanger yourself and others
Everything said so far leads to the risk to expose themselves or any other man of danger. So you should be very careful when they publish a personal or company information, birthdays of children, or pictures of friends. These data may be subject to identity theft or sometimes even to attract the interest of malicious people.

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