Social media quizzes – especially popular on Facebook – seem innocent
enough. But taking the quiz might mean you are giving away more about
yourself than you originally thought, and may extend to your friends as
well.
These quizzes ask seemingly silly or useless questions, but
hackers can use that information to penetrate your social accounts and
gain access to your personal information or the information of your
friends and family.
Some quizzes are designed to steal your data in an outright scam. Once
answered, hackers can easily hijack personal accounts and use them to
lure in more victims. The hackers will include links embedded in the
quiz that can cause a security breach of your personal accounts.
But
the latest news shows that it isn’t just scammers who are interested in
your quiz answers. It turns out, your personal information is big
business.
Not all
social media quizzes are about unprincipled data collection, but the Better Business Bureau cautions users to be careful about what they share online. Profile data,
quiz answers, and more can be used to used to steal your money, or let a
scammer pretend to be you in order to steal someone else’s money.
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'Hashtag,' 'selfie,' and 'tweep' have officially been added to the dictionary.
Tech terms continue to wind their way into the dictionary.
"Hashtag," "selfie," and "tweep" are just three of the latest words recently added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster announced on Monday. The new words have already popped up in the online edition and will join the print version as well.
Other tech terms that are now part of the club include "crowdfunding," "big data," "gamification," and "steampunk."
Merriam-Webster has also added "catfish" to the list. In addition to describing the actual fish, "catfish" refers to a "person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes." The word came into play following a documentary and MTV TV series as well as the bizarre hoax perpetrated against football player Manti Te'o involving a nonexistent online girlfriend.
"So many of these new words show the impact of online connectivity to our lives and livelihoods," Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster, said in a statement. "Tweep, selfie, and hashtag refer to the ways we communicate and share as individuals. Words like crowdfunding, gamification, and big data show that the Internet has changed business in profound ways."
Source: Merriam-Webster
"Hashtag," "selfie," and "tweep" are just three of the latest words recently added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster announced on Monday. The new words have already popped up in the online edition and will join the print version as well.
Other tech terms that are now part of the club include "crowdfunding," "big data," "gamification," and "steampunk."
Merriam-Webster has also added "catfish" to the list. In addition to describing the actual fish, "catfish" refers to a "person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes." The word came into play following a documentary and MTV TV series as well as the bizarre hoax perpetrated against football player Manti Te'o involving a nonexistent online girlfriend.
"So many of these new words show the impact of online connectivity to our lives and livelihoods," Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster, said in a statement. "Tweep, selfie, and hashtag refer to the ways we communicate and share as individuals. Words like crowdfunding, gamification, and big data show that the Internet has changed business in profound ways."
Source: Merriam-Webster
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