Possible reasons why social networking sites are popular:

• It enables you to stay in touch with friends and families.
• It helps to create new friends.
• It is easy to use.

Alas, identity thieves and scammers are attracted to these sites. If they are able to enter your profile, they can do anything with your profile information.

You may think that there is privacy setting in your account and you are safe. However, you are wrong. You are still open to threats. A link posted by your friend on your site or a shared link can be dangerous for your system.

Generally, you use your e-mail address to sign in these social networking sites. If phishers can get hold of this they can send messages to your id and mislead you.

Protection:

You may ask whether to continue with social networking? You only need good anti-virus software to stay connected to all your friends. This software defends you from social networking threats.

In such a situation the best way of protection is to have multiple data version including at least a single copy stored in a different location. This is indeed one of the basic principles behind all the backup techniques. However, different organizations offer different customized business data backup services to their clients on the basis of the requirements.