SocialMaurice - We share so many details of our daily life online, but where should we draw the lineon what we about ourselves, our family, and our friends share? There are some tidbits of personal information it is best to never share online, here are ten of them:
1. your date of birth
While you may want to get birthday wishes loads posted by your friends on your Facebook timeline, with your birth date on your profile can scammers and identity thieves with one of the most important elements of the information needed to steal your identity and open accounts in your name.
2. your current location
Many people don't realize that when they post a status update or a tweet, they can also be revealing their current location. Giving your location data can be dangerousbecause it tells potential thieves that you may not be at home. According to your privacy settings, can these innocent tweet from your vacation spot the bad guys theywere waiting to steal your House give the green light.
3. children from photos of your kids or your friends tagged with their names
Okay, that's a sensitive subject. We all want to protect our children, we explain for a truck to protect them, but many of us post hundreds of tagged photos of our kids online for the world to see. The problem is that you never can be sure that only your friends see these images. What if your friend has his phone stolen or affiliated withFacebook from the library and forget to login?
Not rely on the "friends only" setting, because you never know. Suppose everythingis public and not post something that wouldn't you want to have access to the world.
If you need to post pictures of your children, remove all geotag data and avoid using their real names in the description tag or image.
Your real friends know their names, no need to label them. The same goes for the tag of photos of the children of your friends. If in doubt, let the label.
I would be a hypocrite if I said I had of my kids Facebook tags removed. It is a long process to get back over the years of the value of the pictures, but I'm doing a little at a time, finally I have deleted them.
4. your home address
Again, you never know who might look for your profile. Do not post where you live if you are quiet for the wicked. What does the criminals with your address? Check out our article on how criminals using Google Maps "case the joint" to find out.
5. your real phone number
While you can to be able to contact you, your friends what to do if your actual phone number in wrong hands. It is possible that your location can be reduced by someone using a reverse phone number search tool that are freely available on the Internet.
An easy way to get people to contact you by phone without them your real phone number is a phone number using Google voice as a mediator. View our article on how to use Google Voice as privacy firewall for full details.
6. your relationship status
Do you want your stalker they sat waiting while letting them know that your most likely home only give the green light?
View the status of your relationship is the safest way to achieve this. If you want to be mysterious, just say "it's complicated."
7. photos with Geotags
There is no better than a roadmap to your current location geo-referenced photo. Your phone can record with the location of all the images you take without you knowing it. For more information on why geotags not necessarily so cool if you thought they were and learn to nix your pix, check out our article geotags remove the images.
8. holiday plans
"Hey, I'm gonna be on holiday on 25 August," "Please Come and steal from me", it'sactually what you say to social network criminals behind behind when you book your holiday plans, vacation photos, and when you identify yourself while you're still on vacation.
Wait until you are safe at home before you upload your vacation photos or talk about your online hosting. Is "check-in" At this fancy restaurant really worth giving your location information to potential criminals?
See our article on how to disable Facebook location tracking locations for tips on how to accidentally avoid checking out somewhere.
9. Painful things you would not want to share with your employer or family
Before posting something online, think of you, I want my boss or family to see this? Otherwise it did not post. Even if you post something and delete, does not mean that someone from a screenshot of it did not take before you had the chance to remove it. For more tips on this topic, see our article: How to monitor and protect your online reputation.
10. Information about your current job or work-related projects
Talking about things related to work on social networks is a bad idea. Even an innocent status update on how crazy you are to miss a deadline on a project can provide valuable information to your competitors that they could take advantage of your business.
Does your company have a security awareness training program to help educate users about such threats? If not, check out how to make a safety awareness training program to learn how to develop.
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