The number of users on social networking sites is growing by the day, In unawareness, users often tends to disclose private and personal talks and ignore small privacy things on social sites. Users who don’t take care of their account privacy they often end up with their account hacked and misused by hacker or sometimes reported as photo albums also got stolen/deleted/misused.
After seeing a huge growth in account hacking issue on social sites Google has now started giving suggestion and tips on privacy maintenance to youngsters through there gmail service, It tells you how can you avoid hacking of your social networking account from hackers.
Some useful tips to maintain privacy on social networking sites.
- If you use social networking sites often and use your pet name or your family member’s name or common words you speak in daily life as your password than change it asap. Many users keep their passwords on their personal names this and it’s really easy to identify these type of passwords.
- Do not mention correct date of birth on social sites, in case your password contain your date of birth or your recovery password question contains your correct date of birth than your account can be hacked easily.
- Avoid unnecessary GPS tracking, GPS has revolutionized our life and but it also has some side-effects, if your GPS settings are enable anyone can easily track your movements, either it’s Con man, unwanted people or anyone who is keeping an eye on your movements.
- Do not upload your private/personal photo on social sites because they are easily downloadable and can be misused by anyone.
- Keep your account’s Privacy settings on High Order to avoid misuse of any private account information, because sometimes hackers capture your complete information and use it to answer the security questions for hacking your account.
- Often keep changing your account password and security questions of your social accounts.