Social Media Security

The book I read to research this post was Social Media Security by Michael Cross which is an excellent book which I read at

http://safaribooksonline.com

This book looks at the subject of social media security mostly from a business point of view although a lot of it is relevant to home users. Many companies are giving their employees access to social media as a part of doing their job. This can be things like promoting the company on social networks but also increasingly they are using it to stay in touch with clients and of course blogs are self explanatory. Much contact relationship management software integrates with sites like facebook & twitter. An interesting point raised is when you join a site and they ask to look in your email account for clients  already on that site they usually have access to those peoples email addresses which is a potential security breach. 13 million users on facebook in the USA alone use minimal privacy settings which is great for anyone contemplating identity theft. They suggest using a separate Gmail or Yahoo for activating and using with social media sites. You should think of social media sites the same way you think of the city you live in, in that there are nice people as well as total undesirables like the posh areas & ghettoes in a city. You should think before writing anything do you really want to share information with all and sundry. I really enjoyed reading this book which is as you can see on a very interesting subject that I have barely scratched the surface of.