No matter what you think about Facebook, you have to admit it's a pretty impressive networking tool. Along with other social media websites, Facebook allows people to stay connected with friends and family. However, there's a darker side to this connection as well: Facebook also connects its user to a number of Internet security risks. To celebrate Facebook's tenth anniversary, SecurityCoverage Inc. shared some interesting facts about today's social networking sites and advice on how users can protect their personal information.
Within the past five years, social media sites have seen an explosion in their number of users. In 2008, Facebook and Twitter boasted 100 million users and six million users, respectively. Now over one billion people connect over Facebook and Twitter's user base has almost forty times the number it had five years ago. LinkedIn leaped from 33 million to 225 million users, and Instagram from one million to over 150 million users. In fact, in the span of one minute, there are a hundred thousand new tweets and a hundred new LinkedIn accounts made.
Läs mer
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/320496-the-dark-side-of-social-networking
