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**Security** | **Priority** | **Details and Hints**
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**Secure your Account** | Recommended | Profiles media profiles get stolen or taken over all too often. To protect your account: use a unique and strong password, and enable 2-factor authentication. See the [Authentication](#authentication) section for more tips
**Secure your Account** | Recommended | Social media profiles get stolen or taken over all too often. To protect your account: use a unique and strong password, and enable 2-factor authentication. See the [Authentication](#authentication) section for more tips
**Check Privacy Settings** | Recommended | Most social networks allow you to control your privacy settings. Ensure that you are comfortable with what data you are currently exposing and to whom. But remember, privacy settings are only meant to protect you from other members of the social network- they do not shield you or your data from the owners of the network. See how to set privacy settings, with [this guide](https://securityinabox.org/en/guide/social-networking/)
**Think of All Interactions as Public** | Recommended | There are still numerous methods of viewing a users 'private' content across many social networks. Therefore, before uploading, posting or commenting on anything, think "Would I mind if this was totally public?"
**Think of All Interactions as Permanent** | Recommended | Pretty much every post, comment, photo etc is being continuously backed up by a myriad of third-party services, who archive this data and make it indexable and publicly available almost [forever](https://www.inc.com/meredith-fineman/what-we-post-online-is-forever-and-we-need-a-reminder.html). Sites like Ceddit, and [/r/undelete](https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/), [Politwoops](https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/), The [Way Back Machine](https://archive.org/web/) allow anyone to search through deleted posts, websites and media. Therefore it's important to not unintentially reveal too much information, and to consider what the implications would be if it were to go 'viral'