The Risk Management Group - The A to Z of Safe Social Media

Sanity Check Number Five:

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Is your email address shown in your public profile?

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When you first sign up for many social media sites, your email address is requested of you and it may even be displayed in your public profile. Not only that, but your email address often becomes your user name for the service because many social media sites take shortcuts around more sensible security measures. Having your email address in your public profile exposes you to SPAM as well as harassment. It will also give a fraudster the first half of your logon information and thus help them to take over your account.

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Copyright Mark Johnson & Corinne Blandin, 2012