Social media, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, as well as many other platforms that allow people to “follow,” “friend,” or “subscribe” to you can have serious implications to your privacy and identity. While most of these websites or apps are designed to connect and reconnect people who have similar interests, common ideals, or know each other to some extent, your providing of personal information on any of these services ultimately grants anyone online to what you share and reveal about yourself.
It is important that you keep many details about yourself private, like your personal passwords and pins, date of birth, address, phone number, Social Insurance Number, as well as any other government document number generated for your person. Your friends and family may not be likely to steal your identity, stalk you, blackmail you, or impersonate you, it is possible for other people of the world to attempt to. For this reason, it is wise to keep your privacy and security settings high, and not reveal too much of anything that could compromise you.
