Social media and it's safety

This is all about social media and it's safety in terms of our privacy and person information.

What is social media?

Social media is a computer based program that give individual the chance or opportunity to to share ideas, thought, information thorough a visual network to people and love once.
Social media is also a quick means of passing information, communication content such as: documents, video, audio, photos e.t.c these are some gardget people (users) use for these social media communication: smartphone, tablet, laptop and all these are done through the means of web based software and mostly application.

Examples of social media application.

1. Steamit
2. Whatsapp
3. Facebook
4. Instagram
5. Linkedin
6. Youtube
7. Tiktok
8. Twitter e.t.c

Benefits of social media

1. Social media is use to keep in touch with friends and extended family. Some social media users social media application to network career opportunity and find people across the globe with like mindset interests and share there thought feelings and emotions.
2. Social media go a long way in business it act as an indispensable tool. Where companies, business owner use the platform to find and engage with customer, drives sales through advertising and promotion and offer customer service and support.
3. Social media help business owner in communication with customer, enable internation to get information about the business and how customer find out fault in the business for more update and customization e.g using an e-commerce website.
4. Social media has creat a chance of knowing what is happening in the world in real-time .
5. Social media have made it easy to make friends around the word, and help in networking the world.
6. Social media is also use for fun during recreation and free time by keeping yourself busy and knowing new things.
7. Social media has made it easy even to learn and study new things by yourself and abroad respectively. This is done by watching online tutoring, registering online courses e.t.c and getting new knowledge on things you wish to know.
8. Social media can help Students in there fields of study by research more on the topic of their choice.
9. Social media have creat opportunity to teach people new knowledge showcase your talent for people who are interested to know such thing can be done.

Disadvantage of social media

1. Social media have made so many people not knowing how to manage there time e.g one can be on social media application for a very long time doing unhelpful matter forgotten that he or she is ment to do so many other things which may result to laziness and work abandoned.
2. Social media have made some people not knowing correct spellings of things due to the abbreviation of word .
3. Social media have made some people to commit social crime by stealing our private information and use it against the person. These is called fraud.

How to stay safe in social media

1. Always use a strong passwords in all your social media platforms because the more the length of the password the more secure your platform becomes.
2. Always set your security answer in some of your social media platforms. Is not all always in all the social media platforms but it contains in some platforms.
3. Always use different password for each of your social media application because a cybercrime can find out one of your social media accounts passwords use same information gotten to crack other account which will be possible if same password is use I all your social media account.
4. Be selective in friend request if the person is unknown to you, don't accept their request it may be a fake account else you can be a abuse.
5. If you have social media app on your phone, make sure you protect your password.
6. Always be mindful of the links you click, social media accounts are regularly easier to hack.
7. Protect your computer by installing antivirus software to safeguard your private details.
8. Always make sure that your browser, operating system and software are updated.
9. Try to become familiar with the privacy policies of the social media channel you use and customize your privacy settings to control who see what you do.
10. Remember to log off when you are done.