Last week, newspapers reported that a 23 year old engineering graduate woman was raped by a person who invited her for a “date”. The woman had met the accused, Jitendra Biswal, on Facebook. Biswal is a director in a private educational institute. Soon enough Biswal and the woman exchanged their mobile numbers and last week Biswal had invited her to meet-up for a date. But this “date” turned into a horrendous experience for the woman. The incident happened in Bhuwaneshwar, India. Cases of women meeting strangers on social networking websites (like Facebook, Twitter, Google+) and getting into trouble are on the rise. Every now and then we get to read a similar story as above. Online social networking, on one hand, has made it a lot easier to make new friends but at the same time these websites have become tools for anti-social elements to find their prey. Women and children are their main targets. Here, I have put together a few tips which will help anyone, and especially women, to be safer on social networking websites. Tips included in the above guide will be helpful in making your Facebook life much easier. Earlier I had written a similar post on children’s safety on social networking websites. This might also be of interest to you. Please collaborate and add any other useful tip by commenting on this article. I will update the article if I receive a good tip in this regard.
