Many of us use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate to our acquaintances and family, but how much info are we really sharing with strangers, and would you want to? This is how it’s possible for you to help protect your personal information. This is a guide based totally on the numerous social media sites available on the web, provided by your IT support experts.

Twitter

The preferred micro-blogging site. A place that you can share your thoughts to the world. But what if you only want to share your thoughts with your pals and family? You must go into the settings page and select protect my tweets. This now means that only people who are following you can see your tweets. You may decide who follows you, which is handy.

Facebook

Almost 10% of the worlds ‘ population is on Facebook. Many of us wouldn’t need our boss’s to see what we write about work, or potential bosses to see drunken snaps taken on holidays. To stop this from occuring, you’ll need to go into the settings page and change all access to friends only. You can also change the settings to stop folks who are not your mates from messaging you.

Google Plus

This is a novel solution to social networking. Consider it as Facebook, LinkedIn and Ancestory.com all rolled up into one. With Google you can segregate your friends, family, colleagues and so forth into circles, and define who can see what communication you decide to broadcast. This approach negates the necessity for privacy options as you can reserve particular communication to specific circles.

We are hoping that this throws some light onto privacy with social networking. Should you need a guide on what to do for business IT policy, give us a call at this time for further advice.

Michael Kiruba-Raja is in control of social media communication inside Prosyn. Prosyn brings establishment level IT support in London and surrounding counties. Prosyn specialises in small business IT support for assorted ventures in the UK.