Social media - is it as safe as it seems?
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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The most usual data that a person puts on his page on the Internet, can ruin a business, deprive money or destroy a family. Many of us do not think about it when they fill out the questionnaire, until it becomes too late.
The number of users of social networks in Ukraine is increasing every day. Only on Facebook, the number of users only since the beginning of this year has increased by half a million, now Facebook is about 2 million 800 thousand. This is not to mention other very popular networks, which every day absorb more people. Online communication has recently become very popular and convenient, as most users say. From social networks we learn about the achievements of friends, their new work, where they are and with whom, and much more. The same thing happens with us. We share everything that happens with us, immediately publishing photos on your page, updating the statuses, making comments, etc.
According to the Gorshenin Institute in social networks registered 30 million accounts of Ukrainian citizens. But experts say that hobby for online communication is not such an inoffensive occupation as it seems at first glance. And here we are not talking at all about dependence on social networks and online communication.
Denis Klimov, head of the detective agency, said that today almost every employer who recruited a new employee took it as a rule to check it on social networks. Experts recommend that before you look for a new job or pass an important interview to remove from your page all photos that can somehow compromise you (photo in the nude, in alcoholic intoxication), it is also better to delete all correspondence and comments. According to the director of the detective agency, recently one-third of the layoffs are due to communication of the employee on the Internet during working hours.
D. Klimov shared the case when he was approached about illegal dismissal from work. After visiting the page of the illegally dismissed citizen, it turned out that over the past two months he had been "hanging" quite often during working hours, besides it turned out that there he was actively discussing his bosses, who considered foolish and incapable of anything. So, warns the detective, you should pay more attention to what and where you comment or write on social networks, especially when communicating with new acquaintances.
According to the detective, every active user can get almost any information without any special efforts: name, surname, date of birth, marital status, address, hobby, occupation, circle of contacts. The password is not able to save personal correspondence, and privacy settings (access only to friends) will be protected only by amateur hackers. Professional hackers will open any page, they will get interesting information, it's only a matter of time. In this case, the detective emphasized that all the personal information you wrote on your page, even after its complete removal, will be available even after 50 years.