on social media is volunteering information every personal data is risky be it your pictures likes dislikes date of birth or wedding anniversary first remove all the personal information from your pages the information that you post comprises 20 per cent of the data what facebook takes from you is 60 per cent of it you would have come across many surveys and quizzes on facebook which require you to reveal an insane amount of personal information never fall for that trap that data is used to build your social profile you might be excited about the quiz but you will be revealing a lot of personal information without your own knowledge and its not only facebook even other networking apps like whatsapp and instagram are not safe either even if you delete your fb account your data can still be accessed through whatsapp as they are all related i could recently reveal every personal detail of a person who was not even on facebook thanks to his friends and children who have their respective accounts one can access your information through your friends tooso what is safe to post on social media when it comes to social media nothing is safe or personal comments on national issues or a news item do not cause much harm as they do not reveal intricate details for instance on twitter you limit your personal data to an extent we should understand that ones privacy is heavily compromised in todays world and adding to the woes is that we do not even have a privacy policy or any act pertaining to it all information you reveal online can be used by countries that are a threat to us he sums up