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Keeping Your Social Media Secure and Your Friends Safe

What I did after someone set up new accounts in my name to message my friends and followers.

The steady flow of pings woke me up in the early hours of the morning well before my alarm was set to do the job. Notification from friends in other time zones had me wondering what on earth I was missing. Apparently, I had missed entire conversations and direct messages between myself and friends I hadn’t reach out to.

Someone had been communicating with my connections, posing as me. And doing a pretty good job of keeping the conversation going. Inevitably my friends realized they weren’t communicating with me, and reached out to let me know my social media accounts had been hacked. Except, they hadn’t been hacked, not in the way we typically know. Someone had created a new account with a variation of my user name and a copy of my photos to impersonate me. — Jennifer Navarrete

Jennifer’s experience is what lead to a Lunch Bunch Clubhouse session on social media security.

Keeping your social media channels secure can be one of those things we set and forget. But, one thing we know about Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, particularly, is they change things all the time. Features will change, and often your preferences can be changed to a default setting when new updates happen. So how do you stay on top of it all and make sure your platforms and friends stay protected?

We took a look at some of the practices we put into play for our client’s social media channels and shared how we stay on top of it all:

You think it won’t happen to you. Even seasoned social media veterns can fall prey to today’s savvy hackers. We’d love to hear how you keep your profiles secure or share any tips we may have missed.

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