Cybersecurity Awareness Question of the Week: Social Media Privacy

October 13, 2014 James Michael Stewart Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

By default, who can view your social network posts?

A. Potentially everyone
B. Social network friends
C. Only those with a valid account on the social network
D. Anyone that you have sent a message to, liked, ranked, etc.

Reveal Answer

Answer: A.

Most social networks are designed to be a means to harvest demographic data about people’s habits and interests. This data is then sold to advertisers and product/service vendors. To gather the most information about you, the default settings on most social networks is to share everything publicly. You need to check your settings and lock down aspects of your account that you don’t want shared openly with the public.

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