** Some tips: How to protect your business and personal information on social networking website **

Social networking platform becomes a new trend in today's environment. Most of the people have the account on social networking platform and using it as a communication tool for friendship,marketing etc.

There is a need for every user to understand how they should handle and take care their personal and business information. Most of the users do not pay attention about the registration process and the term and condition by social networking platform.

People're too excited and quickly signing up without reading the term and condition which are shown during the registration process.

Although social networking platform have some features to protect your privacy, that doesn't mean that your data/personal information are really secure and not visible from other sources. Once you filled in the information, the information is considered as shared/public information. Regardless whether you would delete it in the future or not, your information is already exposed to the public via internet. Once people copied or stole your information, you're not the only one person who have control of your information.

I have seen and tested it by myself, how people are careless to publish their personal information in the social networking website. Some people are very 'selective' for not sharing their mobile phone numbers to the people they just met, however they published their mobile phone number in the social networking website as well as their detail home address are visible from other sources.

If there is any data leakage or business information leakage because people are careless taking care their own information, that is not the mistake/fault of the social networking website provider. It is the people's responsibility to take care and pay attention with what they should or should not publish in the public website(eg: social networking website). Useful and valuable information can cost a million dollar and without the proper knowledge and action by the owner, the information can be easily leaked and stolen.

Below is some tips to prevent the data leakage for your personal and business information:

1.Do not mix your personal and business information in the same page/profile.
2.Do some filtering before you post your information on the internet.
3.Do not share the confidential materials on the internet(eg: photos,home
address,personal phone number as well as other documents that are valuable
and might be stolen by others.
4.Limit the access to your data.
5.Use the different username and password for your email as well as your social
networking website access.

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