Your guide to safe social networking

As we are getting more and more involved in social networking via sites like Twitter, Facebook LinkedIn....etc we are in a need of some guidelines protecting our privacy throughout this cyber space:-

1. Use a complex password & change it every 30 days or when weird things start to happen to your account:
   Use at least 8 characters password that contains alphanumeric (containing Capital & small letters mix) & special characters (e.g. ~!@#$%^&*()). And to answer your question NO you can't use your pet's name, family name or your favorite movie or actor as a password unless you make it, somehow, comply with the previous rule, for example to use the name "George Clooney" you can write it like this "gC!0oN3y" or similer combination of Capital letters, small letters, numbers & special characters.
2. Use the HTTPS/SSL feature of the web sites you are using:
   As most of us might not know, when we log on to one of our social networks, our credentials (i.e. username & password) or at least our password will be sent encrypted to that site so that no one can know it, but after the authentication process the site will default you to the unencrypted connection which mean that all the traffic between your web browser and the web site will be sent in clear text, which make your browsing prune to sniffing (where someone might be able to grab a copy of everything that is being sent to or from your web browser) also make you vulnerable to some attack called Sidejacking where an attacker can used some sniffed cookies of ours to browse the site using our account (yes that explains why weird things do happen e.g. our account seems to be adding/deleting friends/followers or posting things that we never wrote......etc ) and just for the record, Sidejacking also works with e-mail hosting sites. using HTTPS feature of web sites, if not blocking these previous attacks it will at least lower the ability of an attacker to implement them unless s/he is a very resourceful one.
    To enable the HTTPS feature on Facebook follow this guide:

To enable the HTTPS feature on Twitter follow this guide:

    3. Unless you want Twitter followers to know your Facebook id, don't use a Facebook profile picture as your avatar on Twitter as your profile id is written in its name and can be easily traced to your Facebook profile.
   4. Do not post personal stuff on your social network account as it may be used to stalk you.


Well folks, I guess that will be enough for today, if you have any inquiry I'll be more than happy to help, just post it here:)