Social media is now very common in life, Facebook is the most used platform even though activities on Facebook getting down, it is the most used social media till now.
You have a Facebook account, you have friends, followers. When you posted something in your feed then that will be a public, not your own. When something posted in your timeline either by yourself or else it is your responsibility to face effects of that post. Your timeline is the mirror of your own.
You might see some vulgar posts, videos, link posts in other friends timeline or you you might got in message come links or you might got some notification that you mentioned somewhere.....
These all are spams, your friends did not know what was happening because they did not care about silly points when they clicked.
You want to be safe from such spams????? Of course every one have to be careful on this, it may damage your social life, your dignity may fall to ground when you have to face such problems.
How it happens??
When you click on some applications then they take to you to a pop up window, where you have to click to go ahead and there they sets their terms and conditions that they have permission to enter to your profile, friend lists, email, and every thing and also they can post on behalf of you on your wall.
If you click OK then that means you agree on those terms so they post by your name which you did not know.
Here i want to show you one example
I saw this posts many time in my wall on behalf of different friends. You can see the title of this video seems very interesting so you might want to click on this but see here what happened when i clicked.
They are saying now they will receive the information of your public profile, friends list and email address, if want to allow them to get all your information and not only that they endorsed some where that they can post on behalf of you. For this case when i clicked on "App terms", it takes me to their web home page not to term and condition page, here they are doing fraud. so if you click on ok then they immediately post their link with same details on you timeline as looks like posted by yourself.
What facebook says on these points???
When i visited to facebook page i saw this....
They are clearly saying if an app asks to access your info or post on your behalf and you can not click cancel then it is not facebook's policiy.
Even if there is a option of cancel, it means if you give them access it is in your risk, what they will do on your timeline on your behalf.
How to be safe from such spams????
Mostly you have to be careful on clicking the applications in facebook. When you see some interesting things shared like videos, or tricks to increase likes on your posts or photos, or check your profile visitors etc... How you can guess those applications may be spam.
- They posts same post for all users.
- They might give their link on comments with your friend name.
- They might send notifications for you if your friend used that one.
- and many others
If you clicked unknowingly once then just cancel those process which ask you to give access in profile, friend lists, email address and posting on your behalf.
If already clicked OK then just go your timeline and delete those unwanted posts as fast as possible.
If already clicked OK then just go your timeline and delete those unwanted posts as fast as possible.
What may happen if you continue with allowing them all access???
- They will have all access to your information.
- Can misuse your information.
- Can post unnecessary, vulgar links, videos in your timeline.
- Can send message with such links
Above mentioned application is just one example, there are many such applications. Some of them might be useful or funny but many of them are spams.
BE CARE, SAVE YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE
If you had faced such spam problems then you can share here..... THANKS
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