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What we don’t know about social media may hurt us

Lots of Facebook users have no real idea what happens to the data they share online.

There’s a big focus on what Facebook and other social media sites should do to better protect us when we’re online. But what about our role as users of social media? What can we do to better protect ourselves? That’s where media literacy comes in. 

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What we don’t know about social media may hurt us