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Services Officers on Social Networking Sites – A Serious Issue?

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Use of Social Networking websites like Twitter, Facebook,Google+ has become a daily need of life no doubt, but when It comes regarding Services men that’s a serious Issue. A Research made by PakSoldiers.Com has shown that young services officers are more active on social networking websites than the senior officials.

A Research Made by PakSoldiers.Com has shown these stats.

•90% Young Officers(Below Major Rank) are on Social Networking Websites specially on Facebook.
•80% Young Officers are there with their original details, Address, Profession, Phone Number.
•55% have shown their Profile Picture in Uniform to show clearly that they belongs to Services.
•42% don’t know about the ‘Privacy Settings’ on Facebook, hence their Photos in Uniform are easy to access.
•09% have shown even their ranks with their names.
Here are some serious concerns,

1.With Original Name and showing their profession in Profile, these young officers are easily available to contact them.
2.By sharing Photos in Uniform, their Photos can be misused, can cause a real problem for them.
3.Female Spy Agents from the Enemies can easily contact them(though Officers are smart enough to deal with enemies)
4.Sharing latest Status Updates regarding current happening around them may lead towards the serious leakage of the info.
Our Spy agencies are very smart no doubt, But I doubt if they can put a check and balance over the officers using the social networking websites. Yes Military Intelligence(MI) and the other sections of the intelligence keep a very close eyes over the officers moving out side the garrisons, but what about using these social networking websites? Here we are not trying to say that they can do anything wrong intentionally, but trying to expel out the Idea that their Data can be misused on the Social Networking websites because of the Lack of the knowledge of using these sites.

According to Official Sources, services officers have been informed not to upload their official data like their photos in uniform, regiments, units, and about their senior officials on social networking websites. Intelligence agencies and Pakistan Armed Forces will have to take a serious step towards this Issue.
 
I remember a little while back a letter was dispatched from the GHQ to every formation(large or small) to ask the officers to remove pages and groups related to PA.
They were also asked to refrain from exposing their identity.
 

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