Social Networking Sites - Security Concerns

Over the past few years social networking hasbroke into everyone's account. He spread a virus
become increasingly popular. Everyone is scramblingaround that got into everyone's account and while he
for the latest piece of technology and these newdidn't do any harm or damage he proved his point, that
devices ensure that you can use social networksit can be done and it can hurt a lot of people.
anytime you want. The topic of security has been anA site that allows people to post journal entries had
issue of the years with specific cases cropping up,someone break into someone's account. The hacker
however when the hype fades, people forget andchanged things around and deleted entries, they also
continue to use and love these social sites.hacked into friend's accounts through the one account.
With everyone loving social networking sites as muchLots of information was leaked and people were hurt.
as they do, it's hard for people to think about themIt made the account holder upset but they just went
having flaws. They provide a way to share photos,on with changing their password and resuming their life.
information with friends and share a laugh or twoMost social network websites started off small and a
through thoughts of the day and instant messaging.few turned into something massive. The idea really
When a family lives all over the world from each othercaught on because everyone likes the idea of being
or friends moves far apart, they give a way toso connected and close to people through the internet...
communicate and share their lives with each other onsomething many people use all day and every day.
a technical level.The problem is that all the little cute programs that
The problem with sharing your life online is that it ispeople are so tempted to load on to their accounts
subject to being looked at by people that you do notmay allow people access to all their information.
know. It may seem scary to think of someone elseAnd while it seems many people don't think about it
viewing your pictures or seeing your profile but it istoo hard, it may do some harm. Whenever someone
even worse when you think about them accessingcan see your private info without consent that is a
your password and getting into your files, or justsecurity issue that should be a hot issue. Some
seeing your files and using the info or pictures for theirnetworking sites have tried to make it seem that
own good.people have control over who sees certain information
Security needs to be beefed up on social sites. Manybut there must be other ways such as loading
social sites do not view security as a huge issue. Theyapplications that allow for security issues to happen
know that more important internet situations do notregardless.
provide heavy duty security so they feel that socialIt is amazing to think that people do not really care that
networking is important but not as important of themuch about internet security, if they did then everyone
ones who are lacking it as well. There are SSL codeswouldn't be on social networking sites. It is also
that can be in scripted to make privacy an addressedconcerning to think that hackers are using the internet
issue, but many internet sites refuse to use them.to target people and use them for their own
A popular social network website had a hacker thatadvantages and scams.