Secure Your Social Networks

If you keep one New Year’s resolution how about this one? Take social networks seriously. If you do not it's only a matter of time before you will get taken by malicious links and social apps that try to steal your personal information, financial information or spread spam (in your name).

And that doesn't even include dozens of other privacy issues. Do you really want your employer to see all your personal life details? So consider securing your social network security and privacy settings. Take a close look at the security and privacy settings for the social networks you use. Learn what each of the settings mean, and adjust them as you see fit.

Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History

I found this video on TED which talks about how Social Media is starting to make history. It's about 18 minutes long, but it will make you think a little more broadly about how social media is starting to change all of us.