5 ways to avoid "excessive sharing" in social media

I think for teenagers, the problem of excessive sharing is not just the behavior itself, but the seriousness of the problem is that it can even be extended to offline behavior. Give an example of a 17-Year-old girl who took a photo with money in his own home and later brought thieves to steal it. There is also a college student, part-time to be a waiter, a guest a full stay for 3 hours but only gave her 5 dollar tip. She violated the company's policy because she complained about the guest on Facebook, and she thought her boss would not see the message based on her Facebook settings, but apparently she was wrong.

Of course, network sharing seems to be a natural instinct of mankind. For example, it seems easy to look back and enjoy the memories, photos, and important dates that we have already logged. The content is extremely valuable, and then until sharing leads to problems faced by people like those in the previous example. I don't think anyone would want to be in that situation. If you're a teenager, or an adult who needs to record basic information, here are some ways to avoid excessive sharing.

1, only with the real friends to share

When you think you need to share personal information, make sure you do it yourself or with a trusted friend. If you think it's necessary to share it on the web, don't put it on the web. On the Web, you are not anonymous, and your comments will not only be integrated into the conflict.

In fact, there is a better choice to make your comments "hot", and you'll even get the magnitude of attention you don't want or need. It's like that 21,000 applications for a girl's birthday party, the reason is that party invitations are occasionally shared with the public. The "Fan page" was born even to promote this behavior. The girl was on a birthday party and the family was almost blown up.

2, try to turn off to show the current location of the app

Turn off the location service app on your smartphone, and if you're not sure why it's so important, think about the iphone app called "American Around Me." It shows the location of the girls nearby. This information is collected from social media platforms. Another example is "Weknowwhatyou ' redoing", which collects information about anyone's attendance at Foursquare and the public status on Facebook, and publishes it so that anyone can be seen.

Icanstalku.com provides a very helpful guide on how to disable location services on either platform or operating system. In addition, you should consider turning off the location services in the Facebook,twitter and photo service, which do not have the necessary to store your location.

3. Selective and continuous sharing of information on social networks

Turn off immediate sharing applications that track your activities. No one needs to know what you listened to at Spotify and what you saw on YouTube. If you feel the need to share, share it with a small group of people. Facebook now allows you to choose to create groups so you can make sure that you see people with specific information.

4. Update your settings regularly

Set up a memo to check your basic information updates on social networks at least once a quarter. Blisscontrol is a tool that can help you choose information that you want to update on your social network and allow you to modify that information directly (including passwords, profiles, user names, Third-party application authorizations, privacy). Sometimes the evolution and renewal of social networks can affect you, but you can't immediately realize change. Regular review of your personal base information will ensure that you do not share information that is not appropriate for sharing.

5, consider the use of management reputation service

Facebook can store your every conversation, every picture and every status update. You can even download your data later. Google can even keep your search results for as long as 7 years.

The future allows people to see only the information you want them to see, and consider proper reputation management. Reputation management services like brandyourself can create a page where Access links are entirely in your control. (now both individuals and businesses are starting to pay more and more attention to their reputation on the web, whether you like it or not, your employer, your client, or an intermediary, there will always be a wide variety of people on the internet Google your name, brandyourself can help you control the results they can find, through a simple way of doing To optimize and monitor your own search results, other than Google Analytics, other sites like reputation.com can collect information about your online reputation and remind you where to be mentioned. Alternatively, you can use the traditional method of setting up a Google Alerts for your name. (nutshellmail-receive messages from other mailboxes on a regular basis, as well as by summarizing all social network actions by a specific keyword or entry).

Author Introduction:

Lane Sutton is a 15-year-old entrepreneur and a social media mentor. He advises on marketing, communication with the younger generation, online privacy and communication

A summary of translators

Children in adolescence are inevitably affected by hormonal fluctuations and may be tempted to make conspicuous and ostentatious behavior in social networks. On the one hand, they lack self-protection consciousness, on the one hand, they do not want to be too much constraint by their parents, so "excessive sharing" is a high risk factor for them.

When the abuse of "excessive sharing" touches on privacy, it becomes the responsibility shared by users, operators and app developers. When social platform updates involve user privacy settings, operators should be reminded of the obligation to install or upgrade the app, there should be a corresponding prompt. For adolescent friends, you need to develop self-discipline and self-control, protect your privacy, and also protect your healthy social relationships.

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