What I reached to a conclusion that we are vulnerable on this website as it is easy for scammers to to login in and make network, then they can reach to our real information and contact / email etc
The website administration might trying hard to protect us but the process has many gaps all scammers can easily reach out.
This also can happen on LinkedIn, no immune Saving Changes...
I'd say this is true about almost any social network - the more we share, the more risk we are at for someone to abuse what we've shared.
The good thing is that we are usually only putting professional information about ourselves in our profiles in this community so the potential for misuse is limited.
Kiron
Kiron, I see your point but the problem they have good software and they can track and find out for example our email on LinkedIn is there they can use that to reach out with big campaign of scam emails, so it is not only professional info we provide sometimes if you are consultant you need people to reach out to contact you so however those will not stop our genuine activities for a good cause, thanks for your continuous support Saving Changes...
While I agree with Kiron, I think among every other social media website, this platform is much more compromised. Just my opinion and I hear what Riyadh is saying.
We raised this issue many times to have a more rigorous process of who can create a profile and increase the amount of filtering especially adding profile photos but no action so far.
Rami, I thought the same until I started to get emails and weird massages so I thought even this website is not immune from scammers, the most hated one for me is the "Nigerian Money" with different dialogue, I didn't know that this was mentioned before so I guess I thank you for your continuous support to my posts. Saving Changes...
If someone is keen enough to do it, they will - as in whether your doors are locked or not, can always just break the windows. That said, looking forward to seeing some long needed changes/upgrades.
Andrew, good point those who can break the window they need strong security guard software and not to leave the door open, if we see more tighten measures to verify the members then I can guarantee that we will see reductions in the number of members and connections. Thanks for your valued comment. Saving Changes...
It is the world we live in now. You can google information and pull it on almost anything, anyone. The receiving end of someone using this information for any wrong doing must be aware of how to prevent these things from happening. Education , teaching our fellow employee's , people, to protect and follow prevention is the way to go. Saving Changes...
Keith, You are absolutely right that with all technology advancement we became more vulnerable, I guess this is the price we pay for all technology that we have lost some of our privacy if not all. thank you for your feedback. Saving Changes...
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
Riyadh, you raise an important concern. The best thing we can do on our own is to limit both the personal information you share and the people you connect to.
We've discussed the issue of networking in the past. I like being able to connect with other project managers here, but I try to be careful about who I connect with. I have a long list of requests from people with little or no information in their profile; no offense to these people, but I don't know who they are and there's no obligation to connect with them. Saving Changes...
MOHAMED ANSARI M AIndependent Consultant| FreelanceKozhikode, Kerala, India
An OTP verification to ones cell phone for each n every post here? Saving Changes...
