If you are watching local television, then you might have seen the promotion on “Think before you click.”
It aims to educate especially web users on the importance of thinking about the result or consequence after each click action. To click on an image, a button, or a link is tantamount to sending an instruction to be executed. Unless a confirmation appears, a click is already a final decision.
More and more web users are getting hooked with social networking sites. Kids as young as 4-year old, not to mention a newborn, have their own Facebook accounts. Well, I wonder how can a newborn post status update on Facebook if he can’t even hold his bottle of milk… Anyway, with the recent report on the attack of Ramnit worm to social networking site Facebook compromising about 45,000 Facebook accounts, it is a must for every web user to think before clicking.
A single click can install malicious software on a PC to retrieve important user information, wipe out data, or damage infected PCs. A single click can fetch the list of all the contacts in an email account or open an infected website to retrieve sensitive information. A single click can send or share thousands of bytes of information to every user it encounters – the information can be useful but it can also be damaging.
It is a fact that because of its popularity, Facebook-look alikes or clones proliferated. Some web users are not even aware that they are not browsing Facebook anymore. Because of this, users click on links that they are not supposed to click.
So before you click on anything, think first. Do check the address of the website you are viewing. Is it the correct website? If in doubt, close your browser and open again. If you often visit a site, bookmarking is beneficial.
I personally have not seen any such Facebook activity on my own profile, and neither have my friends, but a quick search on Twitter for “facebook porn” shows many complaints from users of both social networks. Unsurprisingly, others are whining that they aren’t seeing the questionable content at all.
Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and “like pages” (called “fan pages” until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.
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