Unit 10: What Can We Do To Protect Our Privacy?

As social media is constantly growing, it leads to users taking many risks while accessing these platforms. Not only are these platforms widely used by billions of individuals from all across the world, the content people decide to post on their platforms are being presented to multiple viewers. As  human beings, it’s easy to make certain mistakes and forget about who’s watching or not. However being educated and knowledgeable towards privacy will reduce future complications. For example, one way we can protect our privacy is securing our passwords by not sharing it with other individuals even your friends, family and or partner. Also when using new software or technology that requests you to save passwords and personal information. Indeed, this is one of the very first steps to securing and protecting our privacy. Since that is one of the main information a person need to easily access your account. Furthermore, another way we can protect our privacy is when searching on the browser or websites ensure that the source is safe, protected and trusted before entering any personal information. In order to identify or analyze certain browsers and websites you look for a specific details such as URLs starting with “http://” and a lock symbol next to the URL as well. Moving forward another way we can ensure that our privacy is protected is creating pass codes, or even personalized fingerprint on our technologies and accounts. This way you are certain all your personal information is enclosed to only yourself. Not to mention when creating social media platforms users have the option to put their profiles private rather public. This technique would allow followers to send you a request before viewing any posts, comments or content you’ve posted on your account. In addition another idea that we can protect our privacy is disabling our current location whenever we make a post, comment, or any content related for other individuals to view. Given these useful techniques or ways to protect our privacy as individuals we need to be more aware and cautious of the things we share, expose or even want our followers to see, since we are the ones in control and held with most accountability.