{"id":12590,"date":"2016-07-14T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:55:32","slug":"social-networking-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/social-networking-rules\/12590\/","title":{"rendered":"5 golden rules for social network users"},"content":{"rendered":"

The total number of people in the world is believed to be about 7.4 billion. By the end of 2015 Facebook had climbed<\/a> to 1.59 billion users. With an annual increase of 17% the social media behemoth is simply too big to be ignored. The same is true for many other popular social networks.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s 310 million monthly active users<\/a> post 347,222 times in the average minute<\/a>. Many of them tweet more than a hundred times every day, and even more people tweet less often than once per day. More than 40 billion photos have been shared<\/a> on Instagram since its launch, and more than 80 million photos are published there every day. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s an enormous amount of data: some important, some interesting, some useless. Social networks, with their own trends and laws, work as an extension of the real world \u2014 the one that has a great impact on our offline lives. In this article, we offer five simple rules we think every user of social networks should keep in mind.<\/p>\n

1. Don\u2019t feed the trolls<\/h3>\n

Internet trolls are provocateurs who join discussions to irritate other people for particular kind of \u201cfun.\u201d You can find trolls everywhere: on forums, chats, and any other platforms for online communication. News media comment areas are known for having high troll participation. For sure, there are bunches of them on social networks.<\/p>\n

How should you speak to trolls? Don\u2019t! Just ignore them. Many people take the bait and start hot debates trying to explain their point of view and spend a great deal of time and effort in vain. Someone is always wrong on the Internet \u2014 don\u2019t waste your time and energy on trolls.<\/p>\n

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#study<\/a>: Users still too careless in social networks https:\/\/t.co\/XO6aQLpSGN<\/a> #socmedia<\/a> #facebook<\/a> #twitter<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/r2kTqqiNHz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) February 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n