Rememder!

Know your network

Dont approve friend requests or add people that you don’t know in real life. Dont meet anyone in person that you have only met online.

Beware of imposters

Catfishing is a form of cyberstalking where the user sets up a fake profile and poses as someone else. Educate yourself about catfishing and cyberstalking, and remember about the red flags to look out for. Some of these include a limited number of photographs that look staged, asking for intimate photos or money, moving away from social media sites that are capable of catching catfishing.

Avoid questionnaires

“Free” giveaways and contests, or online quizzes, can be tempting. They can also be phishing scams that will try to trick you into giving away personal information or to allow hackers to try to inject malware onto their computers. Educate yourself about phishing scams.

Guard your location

Here’s a popular practice: personalizing social media status updates with a live location taken from a mobile device’s GPS. You may have fun tagging posts or photos with a location, but  it isn`t a good idea. Here’s what you can do. Go into the settings menu on your  device and disable location services. This can be done just for specific apps while still allowing maps and other useful tools to access location data.

Watch out for apps within sites

You may want to use games and other third-party apps within social networking sites. But such apps can share or post information by default without you knowing about it. Good ones will state clearly that they’ll never post on your behalf. For lesser-known apps, consider whether you want to allow the apps to access social media accounts at all.