Everyone knows today that one will leave a footprint when clicking one link, posting, and commenting. Further, this footprint would be hard to completely deleted. This article warns us that rising use of social media also raises our risks of identity theft. And it also provides us with some suggestions to prevent from identity theft:
1. Be careful to enter sensitive info such as SSN, credit cards, and so on
This advise actually is useless, because most of time we cannot choose not to provide these kinds of information when shopping and opening a new account, for example. And it is not uncommon that companies such as Target was hacked and their customers were risk in identity theft.
2. Make strong password and change them often
Everyone knows this but rarely change password regularly.
3. Be careful what you click
People often realize just after clicking some viral links.
4. Do not overshare
The article give an funny example about sharing SSN with others. Who will do it? I think this should be changed to ask sharing websites to take much more responsibilities to protect users' sharing.
5. Check your privacy setting
Often it is hard for users to touch the privacy control in essence. Users should know which privacy is at risk and how in a simple and readable way.
6. Think before posting
What should I think? If think thoroughly and conservatively, no one will post anything.
Anyway, my point of view in this post is to ask government and social media company to take more responsibilities to protect users' privacy and thus make users feel safe and comfortable when enjoining social media, rather than persuading users to keep far away from social media and provide unpractical advises.
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