Tips To Stay Safe On Social Networks
Use these tips for the best safety online
Follow these tips to safeguard your personal information:
- Check privacy settings regularly. Default settings may allow anyone to see your profile, but settings can be customized to restrict access to only certain people.
- Limit personal information. Do not post your address or schedule. If your connections post information about you, make sure the combined information is not more than you would be comfortable with strangers knowing.
- Only post information you are comfortable with anyone seeing. Remember that the Internet is a public resource, and once information is out there, it is virtually impossible to take it back.
- Be wary of third-party applications. Be careful when enabling applications. Avoid applications that seem suspicious, and modify settings to limit the amount of information the applications can access.
- Use strong passwords, and use different passwords on different sites.
- Keep software, particularly your web browser, up to date.
- Use and maintain anti-virus software. Duke offers free anti-virus software for faculty and staff for download on the Office of Information Technology website.