Social Media is Changing the World and Could Change Your Life

You might accept a fraudster as a friend by accepting friend requests without thinking. These criminals use shared status information, feelings, personal activity photos, work, property, and various check-ins to link and analyze behavior related to preferences, status, property, addresses, travel routes, or time spent in different places to find ways to access personal belongings or to target you.

You might get a virus from receiving files and installing special applications created by scammers on both mobile phones and personal computers, including organization computers. You might receive numerous bills from credit card companies or mobile service providers due to genuinely purchasing special items from playing online games. You might be put on probation or even fired from your job for leaking business information, secrets, or expressing negative opinions about your organization to outsiders.

We can never know for sure when these bad things will happen. Therefore, to prevent such issues, it is essential to be cautious, think carefully, and use good judgment in engaging in various activities on social media, as outlined in the questions above. It is also advisable to study and understand the guidelines and regulations of your organization that employees must follow and understand privacy settings. Additionally, you should regularly change your social media access passwords.

For organizations at risk of security breaches and image damage from external individuals due to employees’ social media use, it is important to recognize that the online community is not different from the real world. It has good people, bad people, secret news, fake news, provocations, and corruption. Information dissemination is extensive and rapid, especially negative news, which can be difficult to resolve if it involves our organization. This has led many organizations to start developing social media policies for employees to follow to raise awareness of potential risks and to ensure the safe and happy use of social media.