Being registered on social network, such as "Schoolmates" or VKontakte, you give access to hundreds of thousands of people to your personal information. That malefactors did not use this information, it is necessary to follow simple safety rules.
How to secure personal data
Popular social networks, such as "Schoolmates", Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter and many others, give to the users the chance of communication and acquaintance to new people. It is supposed that the person registered on social network will be able to find to himself friends on interests. And that it was easier to find adherents, social services ask to specify personal information. Often swindlers can get access to this information and use it in the mercenary purposes.
Links
It is necessary to show big care upon transition according to links which conduct on external resources even if such link came in the message from your friend.
Information
Do not place about yourself too much personal information, it you will secure yourself against swindlers. It is better to keep a home and work address, time of arrival and going away from work, phone and other information which allows to find you in real life in the closed access.
Safety of the password
Think out the difficult password and a confidential question for its recovery. Often hackers hack the account, having just pressed the password recovery button. The system asks to give the answer to a confidential question which can be very simple, for example a nickname of a dog or a name of the husband. Swindlers can easily find this information, having viewed your page.
Safety of communication
Do not trust everything that is written by your friends. Perhaps, the page of your acquaintance was cracked. If you had doubts in what to you is written by your acquaintance, it is necessary to contact him otherwise, for example by phone.
Input on the website
To get on the website of the favourite network, use a line of the browser for input of the address or open the website necessary to you through bookmarks. If on any third-party resource you saw the link to the social network, do not use it. Perhaps, you will be redirected on a fake page of an input by means of which learn your login and the password.
Friends
Be legible in communication. Do not add as a friend of everyone, on that side of the screen anyone can sit. The stranger whom you added as a friend can obtain personal information on you which then uses in the mercenary purposes.
Data
In most modern services of communication it is possible to delete the page within several minutes. But you remember that other people could save all information which you ever published at themselves on the computer. It belongs to audio recordings, photos, video, correspondence. Do not load those data which dissemination you do not want into network.
Children
If you have children, tell them about all dangers which can trap on social network.
New services of communication
Be not registered on all social networks what you will see. Before beginning registration, make sure of reliability of a new resource, read comments on him, attentively study terms of service and privacy policy. Do not use the same login and the password for all social networks. It you will save yourself from a situation when malefactors, having cracked one of accounts, get access to all your services.
Remember that safety on social networks depends only on your consciousness and observance of rules.