Hello again! Starting today, I am back on these platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) after quitting them a long time ago. Here, I am outlining why I am rejoining social media.
The primary reason to quit these platforms was for a number of reasons, and I will not get into this bit here. If you are interested, I urge you to read the book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.”
In the past couple of years, aside from building a cyber security company, I have tried my best to educate folks in my network by conducting seminars and workshops about some of the cyber scams and cyber security best practices. Rejoining social media will help me reach a wider audience.
One of the consistent feedback I have received from many is that awareness of on these cyber scams and cyber threats does not spread enough.
Considering that fellow Indian citizens lost ₹11,333 crore to cyber scams in the past year(2024) alone, rejoining social media platforms makes sense, as per data from the Home Ministry’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) division, it’s no brainer that awareness and education are need of the hour.
The figure could be more than ₹11,333 crores, considering folks who haven’t reported the cybercrime.
Considering that, to many, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc is the Internet it would be foolish to not use these platforms.
I am flipping the switch today by rejoining social media and will be using these social media platforms to share the latest cyber scams and best practices in safeguarding your accounts and data.
If you are following me on any of these platforms, and feel this is noise or spam, please feel free to mute/block me 🙂
If you believe these cyber scams and best practices to counter these need to be amplified and shared with others, please spread the word.
For the nerds reading this, irrespective of how futile this attempt is, I am following OpSec practice by compartmentalizing each website in it’s own VM 🙂