Friday, July 30, 2010

What You Should Never Say on Facebook or Twitter.

Connect and share are two concepts widely spread on social networks. But as much they are popular, there are a handful of personal details that you should never say if you don’t want criminals to rob your identity.

You can certainly enjoy sharing photos, but you should know that sharing some sort of information puts you at risk. This post pretends to tells you what you should never say on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site.

Facebook handles a tremendous amount of information and online traffic. That's why ill-advised Facebook postings very common and regular among young people and students, increasingly can get your car insurance canceled for example.

As for now almost everybody knows that those drunken party photos could cost you a future job, or get you into trouble with the actual, too.

Kathy Kristof of Teaching Social Media Marketing at UCLA, lists 6 things you should never say on any social network place:

    1. Your birth date and place.
    2. Vacation plans.
    3. Home address.
    4. Confessionals. 8% of companies fired someone for “misuse” of social media. last year.
    5. Password clues.
    6. Risky bahaviors. Technology is fast evolving insurers to detect it on social networks.

Have you experienced any consequences of these misbehavior on your school or place of work?

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