Welcome to DR's note, your weekly dose of knowledge from Circuit Stitch.

 In this weeks note we will talk about social media privacy.

In this day and age we like to share all sorts of things to our social media.  Anything from special occasions and holidays to the mundane like what your eating for breakfast or look at me walk down a road.  But our we over sharing?  Could what we put on our social media be used against us?  Yes it can!!!  Hackers can use this information to pose as trusted sources and trick you into giving them information.  Let me tell you they are very good at it, if you don't believe me check out some videos on youtube by scammer payback and just listen to the scammers script.  It shows you how good they are at what they do, then finish the video and watch as this guy just destroys the scammers.  Very good watch.  But back to the point at hand, I will explain how to make your facebook and instagram more private. 

First with facebook go to facebook.com, if you are logged in at the top right hand corner of the page you will see a triangle pointed down.  Click on that, then click settings & privacy(on mobile it is in the menu button at the bottom).  Click privacy check up (mobile click settings then privacy check up).  Click on the first box who can see what you share.  Go through the prompts making it so that either only your friends can see or only you.  That is it for facebook unless you want to add more security which we will talk about at a later date. 

Now onto instagram, go to instagram.com if you are logged in click on your profile picture in the upper right hand corner(on mobile click the profile picture in lower left).  Click on privacy and security(on mobile click privacy).  Check the box that says private account if not checked.  That is it then for instagram.

Now you have some of your social accounts a little more private and secure.  If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below.  Thank you and have a great day.