It\u2019s Cheat Week at Mashable. Join us as we take a look at how liars, scammers, grifters, and everyday people take advantage of life's little loopholes in order to get ahead.<\/p>\n
Technology and social media can obviously be great, but if you haven't quite mastered your platforms and devices, things can get a bit chaotic.<\/p>\n
It's easy to fall into hours of scrolling through Twitter or Instagram timelines, to get frustrated by trolls or annoying friends, and to completely mismanage your privacy settings. But don't lose hope. There are some helpful little ways to beat the system that will let you thrive online.<\/p>\n
You probably know of a few already \u2014 like making a Finsta, which allows you to post any content you definitely don't want your family members or co-workers to see, or disabling location services on apps so companies don't geographically track your every move \u2014 but that's just the tip of the digital iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Cheat Week at Mashable. Join us as we take a look at how liars, scammers, grifters, and everyday people take advantage of life's little loopholes in order to get ahead. Technology and social media can obviously be great, but if you haven't quite mastered your platforms and devices, things can get a bit chaotic. It's easy to fall into Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kol-web.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}