5 Simple Tips to Secure Your Social Media Accounts
Five Simple Practical Tips for Social Media Security
Securing your social media accounts shouldn’t be complicated, especially as you’re just starting out in your digital security journey. This quick post aims to give you 5 simple and practical tips that you can implement for better security on social media. We care about you, we want you to stay safe online, so that you can keep doing what you love without any pesky interruptions. Here are 5 tips for social media security:
1) Set your accounts to “Private”
Setting your social media account to private is like putting a fence around your personal space online. It helps protect your privacy by allowing only approved people to see what you share, reducing the risk of strangers accessing your personal information or photos, which in turn increases your security. Setting your accounts to private also helps to protect against threats like data-scraping1 and identity theft. You wouldn’t want someone else using the supermarket reward points you worked so hard for would you?
2) Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA):
This is probably the 100th time we’ve said this, PLEASE enable two factor authentication on any accounts that allow you to do so. 2FA is probably one of the easiest yet most effective steps to keep any hacker or malicious entity out of your accounts. It doesn’t cost you anything and is very straightforward to enable. If you stop reading this blog post right now and go set up 2FA on any account that you own, you will be more protected than the majority of people you know, just saying..
3) Regularly Log Out:
After using social media on a shared or public computer, always log out to prevent unauthorized access. Additionally, it's important to regularly review and revoke unused and old sessions associated with your social media accounts. This simple practice minimizes the risk of someone else gaining access to your accounts.
4) Beware of Third-Party Apps:
Review the permissions you grant to third-party apps connected to your social media accounts. Remove access for apps you no longer use or trust. It's a good practice to periodically assess which apps have access to your data and, if you no longer use or trust a particular app, remove its access. This not only reduces the potential for your personal information to be misused but also helps you maintain better control over your digital presence.
5) Secure Your Email Account:
Your email is the gateway to all your accounts. If it gets breached, hackers can more easily get access to all the other services that use that particular email address. The key is to treat your inbox like a fortress. We’ve made a full guide on how to keep your email safe and secure from the ground up. You can find it here:
Here’s a quick recap of what we talked about in the guide above:
Choose a trusted, secure, privacy-conscious email provider
Use a strong password for your email
Enable security logs
Enable 2FA (on your email this time)
Use email alias services
Educate yourself about email threats like phishing
Implement good email practices (described in detail in the post)
Don’t use email for sensitive communications
Have a doomsday plan ready
That’s it, you’ve taken great steps towards securing your social media profiles. All it took is 3 minutes of reading and 10 mins of doing. We’re glad you’ve followed this guide to the end, here’s a cookie for you 🍪
Data-Scraping: Data scraping is the automated process of extracting information from websites or other data sources for various purposes, such as analysis or storage.