Facebook the world’s largest social networking community and is becoming the hotspot for spammers who always attract the users by coming up with the latest news (more related to celebrities) kind of applications, making them prey to their acts. The severity of these spam ranges from spamming the account, collecting the user contact information’s, hijacking the account and sometimes deleting the account.
While Facebook is taking all measures possible for safer Facebook experience, the responsibility for being safe online also lies with the users to make it “even more safe”. Here are some of the tips which helps you in maintaining safer Facebooking experience:
- Make habit of suspecting each and every URL you come across on your Facebook wall, have a closer look at the URL and check for its authenticity.
- Never trust short URL’s. If you really need to check that use, http://longurl.org to know the original URL behind the link.
- Don’t paste the codes which reach you in communication or through some apps in your address bar. It will lead them to post updates or maintain your account without you even knowing about it.
- Check the content, make a rule of not clicking on the “Hot Babes” kind of wall posts posted by your friends even if they are posted by your close ones, because even your friend’s account could have been compromised with the spread malware.
- Usually most scams and spams will be on fake content “Prince Charles divorced” or “Osama Bin Landen Shootout Video”. So don’t bother, just ignore them.
- In case when you click on a link and it asks you for an installation, stop doing that immediately. It could be a malware.
- Always stay away from freebies such as “Free Apple iPad”, “Get Samsung Galaxy for 1$” 99.999%. These will be fake.
- It is always a better idea to like “Facebook Security” page which updates on the recent security related updates.
- Always check the pages for their authenticity while giving your Facebook credentials even if it is looking like Facebook, they could be fake sometimes.
- When you think that your Facebook account poses some security breach make sure you go to http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications and remove any unwanted or unknown applications over there.
- Always report the fake content you come across to Facebook, help them in maintaining it clean.
All these precautions will make your Facebooking experience much more better.
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