Social media is fine. Just unfollow people who over sexualize themselves, glorify promiscuity, glorify profanity, glorify their misbehaving toddlers as "cute/funny" and associate with normal people
Social media, in addition to being mental poison, is also nothing but a MASSIVE attack vector. You are giving potential attackers a HUGE vulnerability by having your name and literally any kind of info about you available.
This is where LinkedIn is the most dangerous of all social media publishers. You are putting your name, your employer, your specialties, your education, your employment history, your coworkers names, your residential history and on and on and on. Then you combine that with Facebook where you have your hometown, your demographics, your granular info on your entire social connections, your likes, your dislikes, your opinions, your politics, your family and for some insane people, your direct contact information!
WHY ON GODS GREEN FUCKING EARTH WOULD YOU EXPOSE YOURSELF LIKE THAT TO THE INTERNET, PEOPLE?!! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!!
Become a ghost on the internet, no trace. When someone wants to find you they get nothing. When someone wants to destroy you they have no ammo. 99% of the time if there's no public scalp to take, they will not even bother.
LinkedIn is a bit different, as long as you do not engage in it for social purposes.
You put your stuff up, polish it a bit, then leave it alone. You go sniffing there when you want or need a new job, or look at the occasional recruiter trying to bug you to go work for someone else, but that's about it.
Anyone who uses LinkedIn as a social platform to wave their ass on (especially for political reasons) is an idiot.
That's missing the point. You are putting your name and personal details out there. It doesn't take much effort to line up your LinkedIn profile with other social media you use. So even if you DONT put anything in LinkedIn other than your employment and highly personal details you stupidly put in LinkedIn I mentioned above, you can very easily be lined up to your other social media profiles by an attacker.
I think LinkedIn is by far the most dangerous attack vector though, not just for people looking to hurt you for vengeance but for fraud, identity theft and extortion.
Agreed. My husband was from France. Our daughter and I never met his French relatives before he died of lung cancer. We are able to stay in contact with them through Facebook and it's translation feature. Social media, like real life friendships, is all in what you make it.
Social media is fine. Just unfollow people who over sexualize themselves, glorify promiscuity, glorify profanity, glorify their misbehaving toddlers as "cute/funny" and associate with normal people
Social media, in addition to being mental poison, is also nothing but a MASSIVE attack vector. You are giving potential attackers a HUGE vulnerability by having your name and literally any kind of info about you available.
This is where LinkedIn is the most dangerous of all social media publishers. You are putting your name, your employer, your specialties, your education, your employment history, your coworkers names, your residential history and on and on and on. Then you combine that with Facebook where you have your hometown, your demographics, your granular info on your entire social connections, your likes, your dislikes, your opinions, your politics, your family and for some insane people, your direct contact information!
WHY ON GODS GREEN FUCKING EARTH WOULD YOU EXPOSE YOURSELF LIKE THAT TO THE INTERNET, PEOPLE?!! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!!
Become a ghost on the internet, no trace. When someone wants to find you they get nothing. When someone wants to destroy you they have no ammo. 99% of the time if there's no public scalp to take, they will not even bother.
Yeah, but if you do it safely. I.e. private facebook with limited personal information and selective friends.
I have no idea what else I can do for you, buddy. It's got its hooks in you pretty deep. God bless.
This site right here is social media bud
LinkedIn is a bit different, as long as you do not engage in it for social purposes.
You put your stuff up, polish it a bit, then leave it alone. You go sniffing there when you want or need a new job, or look at the occasional recruiter trying to bug you to go work for someone else, but that's about it.
Anyone who uses LinkedIn as a social platform to wave their ass on (especially for political reasons) is an idiot.
That's missing the point. You are putting your name and personal details out there. It doesn't take much effort to line up your LinkedIn profile with other social media you use. So even if you DONT put anything in LinkedIn other than your employment and highly personal details you stupidly put in LinkedIn I mentioned above, you can very easily be lined up to your other social media profiles by an attacker.
I think LinkedIn is by far the most dangerous attack vector though, not just for people looking to hurt you for vengeance but for fraud, identity theft and extortion.
Therein lies the trick. Don't use any other social media.
Agreed. My husband was from France. Our daughter and I never met his French relatives before he died of lung cancer. We are able to stay in contact with them through Facebook and it's translation feature. Social media, like real life friendships, is all in what you make it.