14. Twitter
Recognize Twitter Spam
Recognize Spam followers and block
them with a click for the future.
Though
spam bots are smart, they do still send thousands of posts and are thus caught.
Twitter-Spam, are machine generated posts
that the supposed new followers leave behind in your threads. In that, the
names and profile pictures of the followers as well as the content of posts are
rarely identified as spam at the first look. If you are very active on Twitter,
then these tweets clutter up your account very quickly. To avoid this, you must
go through your follower list at least once every two weeks and block the spam
followers. You can recognize the machine generated posts without struggling for
long with the tweets and checking them individually, if the link targets are
okay. While glancing over the images, names and posts, sometimes it becomes
quite clear what spam is. But in cases where you are unsure use the following
trick - look for a distinctive word order from 3 to 4 words and copy this. Now
open Twitter once again in another browser tab, and put the copied words in the
search field and click search.
In the result page you can now recognize
whether it is a spam account or not. If not, there are only a few hits and
mainly various tweets. If the words are from a spam account, the identical
tweet will be shown hundred times. When you identify a spam account you can
simply block it with a click on the arrow to right of the list.
15. Google +
Organize your contacts for better
privacy
Use Circles (groups), to update your
colleagues and friends seperately and keep everything from being seen.
All
functions of Google+ on your PC are also available on the go.
Like Facebook even Google+ offers the option
to share own photos and posts with certain users only. While you fiddle with
lists on Facebook, in Google+ it works with a simple Drag and Drop in circles.
Drag people with the mouse in to a specific circle that has actually been
defined beforehand by you.
For every status message, Google+ asks
where you would like to see this person and you can simply select the
corresponding group. You can obviously add the same person to several groups
and no one but you will know who you put to which group. Once you have sorted
your friends and colleagues, than sharing with people you want to is as simple
as it can get.
16. Google +
Google+ via Android app
Use Android- App for Google+, to
manage your account on the move
Google+ is also available as an App for
Android and iPhones. Android users must keep an eye on the system setup, as by
default the App is set up in such a way that every picture you take with your
Smartphone is uploaded automatically to your online account. You have the
option to turn off this instant upload altogether. For this go to Settings from
Menu, here in the bottom section you will find the option of Instant Upload,
simply uncheck it to disable. Apart from this you also have to choose to upload
only via WiFi and there is also an option that allows uploads only when the
battery is charging. In addition to that, the App also offers functions same as
Google+ in the browser. Contents can be flexibly shared with groups and other's
posts can also be read. Besides one can even - like Facebook Places - mention
the place at which one is currently located.
