Thread: Is social media an open door for predators??!

Prevention is better than cure. Instead of worrying after the crime we have to take some actions before it’s happen. Awareness may reduce the percentage of crime but it’s not a solution. All the crimes are happening because of those fake Id . Everyone have one passport right and one National identity card right? Why can’t we use this concept in social medias? One person should allow for one social media account and it’s should be verified. You may think this is not realistic. We are at top level of technology . If we enforce about it, social medias will work on it. Each of the life is important and priceless so these crimes should be prevented as soon as possible.

Originally Posted by Shivani

HEY GUYS!!

SOCIAL MEDIA!!! Social media has a great impact in today's life. Everyone has a Facebook account from a 10 year old to a 60 year old person. Social media both gives us a good as well as bad impact. Recently there has been a lot of issues because of this social media thing in Sri Lanka. There has been a lot of issues in Sri Lanka mostly for girls due to this social media.

PREDATORS: What predators do is they secretly engageon their pray!

HERE IS THE MOST COMMON SCENARIO FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PREDATORS MOSTLY DOWN HERE IN SRILANKA:

• The predator opens a fake account using a fake name with a fake birth date

• The predator will post a picture of someone else, usually a picture of someone around the same age of the predators.''TARGET GROUP''

• The predator is then open to troll around the social networking site as A 16 YEAR OLD BOY/ GIRL WHERE AS THE PREDATOR IS ONLY 42 YEARS OLD

A RECENT STUDY HAS SHOWN THAT ONE IN THIRD OF THE CHILDREN IN THIS GROUP AGE (10- 17) ARE BECOMING VICTIMS OF ONLINE SEXUAL SOLICITATION!!

WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? HOW CAN THIS BE STOPPED OR PREVENTED?? GIVE ME YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!

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Prevention is better than cure. Instead of worrying after the crime we have to take some actions before it’s happen. Awareness may reduce the percentage of crime but it’s not a solution. All the crimes are happening because of those fake Id . Everyone have one passport right and one National identity card right? Why can’t we use this concept in social medias? One person should allow for one social media account and it’s should be verified. You may think this is not realistic. We are at top level of technology . If we enforce about it, social medias will work on it. Each of the life is important and priceless so these crimes should be prevented as soon as possible.

Okay. I just want to add few point which may help anyone being protective. I'll break it to TWO parts as Stalkers & Hackers.

To be protective from Hackers, you may do the following:

• Fist ever thing to do is enabling "Login Notification", which will let you know if someone else logged in (via Hacking)
• As we do in Emails, check you activities, locations, devices, you logged-in. You can find any delicious activities there
• Make sure to enable Login Approvals or Two-Factor Authentication
• ​Don't use the same password everywhere on the web, done Tick the Remember Password option or Keep me logged-in option. And DO use a Password Manager
• Keep your browser updated, and enable Secure Browsing
• Dont ever click on untrusted URLs, see this post if need more information
• Finally, Make sure you Log Out when you don't use the application

To be protective from Stalkers, you may do the following:

• First ever thing you could do is blocking stalkers without seeing you in Facebook. This can be done through Privacy settings of Facebook.
• If you know a particular starker, block them through the Profile and Report them
• Stop allowing people to search your name in FB, which may make the starkers search your profile. Again it's possible thorough Privacy Settings
• Don't make every information public, which may give them clues about you and aid them in getting you
• Don't allow friend requests from everyone, but restrict them
• MORE THAN EVERY THING, use your HEAD, and be proactive, and be preventive.

If you need more details, visit the following URL : Facebook Privacy Basics

Originally Posted by Shivani

These were really helpful , is hacking considered to be a capital punishment?

What do you mean by "capital punishment?"
If you can elaborate a bit, I would be able to answer

Originally Posted by MDilbara

What do you mean by "capital punishment?"
If you can elaborate a bit, I would be able to answer

Capital punishment in the sense ,once someone hacks the government's data's will the hacker be given a death sentence or a life time imprisonment something like that ?