The Dangers of the Social Networks Sites

What is a Social Network Site?

Social network is a global revolution, enabling around a billion people worldwide to stay in touch with their friends, share experiences and photographs and exchange personal content. In many ways it has replaced the telephone and email. For many users, it has become a way of life. Various social networking sites are also valuable tools used by many companies and individuals to extend their contacts and deliver marketing messages.The nature of social networking – having such a massive base of users who are unknown to you – means that using it carries a degree of risk including becoming a target for cyber-criminals. 

What are the dangers of the Social Networks Site?

 

There are a lot of dangers, but basically are:

 

-Disclosure of private information by either yourself or friends/contacts.

 

-Bullying.

 

-Cyber-stalking.

-Access to age-inappropriate content.

-Online grooming and child abuse.

-Encountering comments that are violent, sexual, extremist or racist in nature, or offensive activities and hateful attitudes.

-People trying to persuade or harrass you into changing your basic beliefs or ideologies, or adopt an extremist stance.

-Prosecution or recrimination from posting offensive or inappropriate comments. 

-Phishing emails allegedly from social networking sites, but actually encouraging you to visit fraudulent or inappropriate websites.

-Friends’, other people’s and companies' posts encouraging you to link to fraudulent or inappropriate websites.

-People hacking into or hijacking your account or page.

-Viruses or spyware contained within message attachments or photographs.

And next, I put a video about the dangers in the Social Networks Sites.