Post on 19-Jan-2017
Social Media
By: Amira Galal.
Pros & Cons
Outline
•Overview of Social Networking.
•Security Threats/Attacks.
•Against social media claims.
•Defense measures/conclusion
•Supporter's point of view.
•Thesis statement.
Thesis statement
People claim that social media destroys their life more than improving it as you can be bullied or your life can be hacked
But other people think that when they are used effectively they can have many benefits
What is Social Media?
Overview of Social Media- It is media that is designed to be shared, sharing means that it is easy to comment on, that it is easy to send
- Social media enables people to share information with friends and Family using the Internet
What is social networking?- It is an online service , platform, or a site that focuses on building relations among people, by sharing their interests or activities
Most Popular Social Networking Sites :Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Youtube , pinterest , Tumblr & Vine … etc
Emails Youtube Flickr Facebook Twitter
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• In Just one minute
Social Engineering
Hacking social media is called “Social engineering” as it uses special techniques to take advantage of the weak information in
the security system
Snapchat: which is popular among teenagers. It tells users that no one can save their videos or photos
Public privacy
Cyber bullying
Cyber-bullying is bad messages, embarrassing pictures or rumors sent by email or posted on social media
Cyber bullying victim Amanda Todd
•Benefits of social media Benefits of social media
Fast & direct comm.
Low costskeep you up to date
Building friendships
Educate yourself
inspiration
Help us to build new relations and renew old ones all over the world
EDUCATION
NEWS
Our physics group on Facebook
•Social media can make you famous and rich, by programming your own social network site (as mark the facebook founder)
•You can also be famous on social media by grabbing people’s attention
Security Threats/Attacks•Privacy issues:
-Information about person posted by him/herself, others-Information about people collected by OSNs
• Common sense: it’s very difficult to delete information after it’s been posted online
• SNs addiction (All SNs are time consuming)-SNs disconnect us from the real life to live in a virtual one
Defense measures-Use browser security tools for protection
-Limit the amount of personal information you post
•Check privacy policies -Who Can Access Information?-What Information is Public?
SourcesVideo: ARAM TVhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Ds7nedV3NqYf0zhpYti4A
Pictures: Google image searchhttps://www.google.com/imghp?hl=ar&gws_rd=ssl
Information: Google Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
Questions & Comments?