# Cybersecurity Practices for Social Media Users: A Systematic Literature Review
## 3 Discussion  
Based on the aforementioned literature, it was found that there are many cyber threats existing within social media platforms, such as loss of productivity, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, identity theft, social information overload, inconsistent personal branding,personal reputational damage, data breach, malicious software, service interruptions, hacks, unauthorized access to social media accounts ([18] [PERSON], 2009; [PERSON] et al., 2009; [PERSON], 2007; [PERSON] et al., 2009; [PERSON], 2008; [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2004; [PERSON], 2010; [PERSON], 2008; [PERSON], 2007; [PERSON] et al., 2015; as cited by [PERSON] et al., 2016), cracking a password ([19] [PERSON], 2016), fake accounts, sexual harassments ([20] [PERSON] et al., 2017), spam attacks, malware attacks, Sybil attacks, impersonation, hijacking, fake requests, image retrieval and analysis ([21] [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2018), spear phishing attacks ([22] [PERSON], 2018), and social engineering ([23] [PERSON], [PERSON], and [PERSON], 2014; as cited by [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2019). All users should have enough current and updated cyber awareness and cyber behavior to safeguard themselves from the aforementioned cyber threats. Tragically, most users have failed to achieve an acceptable level of protection compared with the increasing rate of threats ([14] [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2018). People who post information online might not think of security risks associated with this behavior. However, this action can voluntarily reveal more personal information to unknown people than they expected ([46] [PERSON] et al., 2020). It is also revealed that most social media users are unaware of the risks and vulnerabilities associated with those platforms unless they have experienced those in their real lives ([50] [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2018). Hence, it is always recommended that users take enough precautions to safeguard themselves from cybercrimes from their point of view, since the most powerful user privacy protection strategy in social media platforms falls into users' own hands. Only they can control what they publish, and to whom, on those platforms ([48] [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2017). When it comes to factors affecting cyber awareness, it was discovered that age, gender, and education level may or may not affect the cyber awareness of internet users. Older adults had higher information security awareness (ISA) scores than young adults. A small significant difference was found in the ISA score related to gender, where females had higher ISA scores compared with males ([29] [PERSON] et al., 2017). In contrast to this citation, another research article stated otherwise, finding that males have more cyber hygiene knowledge than females; however, surprisingly, there was no difference in cyber hygiene knowledge among different age groups ([30] [PERSON] et al., 2018). In the research, it was found that higher education levels lead to higher information security awareness of the users--higher education levels or information security training reduces risky user behavior ([31] [PERSON] et al., 2016). However, in a multinomial regression analysis, it was found that people with higher education and who are not living in their own housing are more likely to fall into the cybercrime victims category ([32] [PERSON], and [PERSON], 2013, as cited by [PERSON] and [PERSON], 2020). Several items of the literature support the idea that cyber awareness has an impact on cyber behavior. Research results show that higher awareness was connected with a lower number of reported online risky behaviors ([37] [PERSON], [PERSON], and [PERSON], 2016). Lack of understanding regarding appropriate cybersecurity actions can lead end users to inappropriate cyber behavior ([30] [PERSON] et al., 2009; [PERSON], and [PERSON], 1991; [PERSON], [PERSON], and [PERSON], 2006; [PERSON], and [PERSON], 1998; as cited by [PERSON] et al., 2018).