Are military personnel vulnerable on social media sites?

Our vulnerability goes far past what your privacy settings on Facebook and other sites are. I guarantee you that anything put on any sort of Internet website can be immediately compromised. Any messages you send through FB Messenger or any other private internet based chat service can be read by getting through the simple security measures these companies put up. Further, one of the basic functions of an enemy electronic intelligence analyst is to chart connection paths. Facebook is your worse enemy here. In an effort to spare you from making a bunch of usernames and passwords, most apps and games have the option to link to a social media site and use that login to get into the game. That means they don't have to hack into Facebook. They can just get in through the peripheral login. If your phone is linked to Facebook, everything on your phone can be compromised. It's nothing to install a key-stroke recording program on the phone and hide the memory it's taking up as something that is a part of the normal processing programs that helps a smartphone run. If ypu have a banking app on that smart phone, things get easier for targeted because most people don't take out their checks all in cash when they get paid. This leaves a pattern of life study that can be built from your card swipes. If you have a joint account, this can also hint at your business partners' and loved ones' patterns of life also. On all social media sites, it is mandatory to have an email address on file. Sometimes you can hide it from public view, but not hackers. They can map to your electronic devices through email login geotags also. It makes no difference if it's a wifi connection or hardwire.

I've thought a lot about this in terms of even Rally Point.

LTC (Join to see) yes, Sir. We are always a target even if we are not on social media. We are a target sometimes just being a Westerner or an American. Heck we are a target just for marketing to buy items.

Yes, and it’s called “social engineering”. There are fake accounts on all sites. Linkedin is one such site. I’ve received a lot of connect requests from all over the world. I now only accept requests from people I know or have been refferrd to me. A lot of people scavenge around on LinkedIn and try to contact you to give up information, and other such sites do the same thing.

WE NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM IT. From PV1 to the chief of staff.

Yes. Even if you take all of the precautions with your site, and someone you may have "upset" hacks into your site, posting some "questionable" things; you will be tried and hanged in a matter of seconds by the media judge jury and executioner, to include the release of your address, wife and kids names, where your wife works, your unit assigned and notifications to your 1Sgt (I kid you not, it always seems that if you mention a unit, SOMEBODY always knows the 1Sgt), and you are clueless until you show up to work the next morning wondering why you are getting your butt chewed. This is one I see played out a lot on FB... Sad, really...

Yes. Young people don't understand the consequences of what they post.

You are as vulnerable as you make yourself. We all been through the classes, now it's time to actually take what was presented and us the information.

The obvious answer is yes-

There's a reason most of my profile on here is blank except for my photo and date of rank.