Daily Homework – Log in to Your Social Network Account

How many social network accounts do you have? How much time do you spend on your network content and application updates? How many discussion boards or blogs or pictures or games do you need to maintain in each network service?
Besides email and instant messenger programs, social network services have become important media for people to maintain their relationships or business exposure. There are, of course, myriad risks associated with exposing your personal details online when you are not aware of setting proper privacy rules, such as those suggested by the social network services.
Spammers have yet another channel available to send their “love” to you.
Have you had the pleasure of your newly registered social network account sending you tons of friendship invitations on a daily basis? Or, in addition, that same account sends out numerous friendship invitations to your contacts without your consent? Or, have you started receiving lots of junk mail and virus threats soon after you registered online? These sorts of problems often happen when social networking profiles don’t have their privacy settings administered properly. It could also be a problem with the social network service, which might not have maintained proper privacy regulations on behalf of their participants. Spammers can get onto these social network sites and collect user information, such as email addresses or personal blog URLs, for example, and they (continue reading...)