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Social Networks Online And Securing Personal Information
By Christine Wales
When people join social networks online, they need to be concerned
about how safe their personal information is on these networks.
Businesses, too, as they join the same networks to keep in touch
with customers, have begun experiencing challenges as well.
Big business social media must strike a balance between becoming
bosom pals with all their customers and trying to keep things
"business as usual," treating social media as simply
one more channel for funneling advertising. Both the public and
business are still working on how to keep everything free flowing
without doing damage.
Watch Out For Criminals, Hackers And Spammers
The issue of personal information is a large concern indeed for
social networking sites. In the same way that businesses recognize
a potential gold mine in these networks, so do criminals, hackers
and spammers.
Spam, in fact, is probably the least of people's worries. The
networks themselves are scrambling to make their sites as secure
as possible, to stop people's personal information being hacked
and stolen. And the general public needs to engage in social media
education to learn just what sort of information to post online,
and what they should keep off the net altogether.
Keeping Personal Information Away From Social Sites
Businesses, on the other hand, while they must take thought for
the security of proprietary information, face an extra challenge
as they set internal social media policies. Just how friendly
should they be with customers?
They must recognize that the public now expects to be listened
to and play some role in what the company does, and above all,
to be treated with respect. But employees engaging in social networks
online must still represent the company properly, with a balance
between being chummy and protecting private aspects of the company's
business.
Treating Joe Public With Respect
All of these issues get discussed whenever businesses and social
network experts meet at social media conferences and in other
venues. Some companies take the extreme route of stifling anything
their employees say about the company on their own time, on their
own personal sites as well as the company's website.
Keeping Communications Open
This kind of "policing" is overbearing and can't realistically
be maintained in the long run, since it ruins all other attempts
by the company to use social media for its own benefit.
Meanwhile, others work at protecting social networks online in
general from hacking. The issues facing anyone wanting to engage
in social networking are myriad, and they are only just beginning
to be addressed in an organized way.
About the Author:
Christine Wales has written a number of articles on computers,
online shopping and online software including Online
Shopping, Internet
Shopping, Shopping
Site, Social
Networks, Dynamic
Web Content, Search
Engine Marketing, Web
Content, Web
Content Management System, Web
Content Management, Website
Design.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Give Me Just The Social Media Facts.....
What are some of the most popular ways to use social media to
my advantage?
One of the most popular ways to use social
media to your advantage is through a personal website or a blog.
You create a website that is designed to draw in customers or
help you network with other working professionals in your line
of work.
By constantly updating the information
on the website you can keep people interested in what you have
to say or what you are offering. If you use social networking
sites such as Twitter you can direct more traffic to your website
which, of course, leads to a bigger audience and more interest.
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