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Social media is like a daily bread to a lot of young people, and lately it seems middle aged and older people have joined in on the fun as well as businesses. When creating a social media account there are certain terms and conditions that need to be read then agreed upon for security reasons and it would seem that a lot of people choose to ignore this very important step. And because of that reason, social media is now being used as a platform for psychopaths and criminals to do their dirty work.
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Late last year there was a male in the North West of South Africa who was murdered by a young woman and her boyfriend after agreeing to meet the girl at a cemetery. The boy who was killed and the girl had been friends on 2go (social site) for a while prior the incident. The story was on the news and in most newspapers in South Africa and 3rd degree (news documentary) did the follow up story early in the year. There was another famous story about a man who was raping women he had found on facebook and the famous mxit kidnap stories that most people would recall.
At first I didn’t really pay attention to all this, it hit me one weekend as I was sitting with my friend at home and got 3 calls from 3 different people who claim to have got my number on facebook, I realized how I wasn’t protecting my private and important information and immediately logged on facebook and removed all that important information. If people can see all that information about you on facebook, they will know where you live, work, etc and that will make it easy for them to plan your murder or kidnapping so make sure that all your important information is secure.
