It used to be that we would get funny and interesting links shared with us through numerous emails. Now, more often than not, we get those same links shared on Facebook. No matter how you get these links, though, if you’ve been burned by opening up a bad site before, it makes you somewhat leery to end up in that position again. No one wants to get phished or run into malware and get personal information stolen.
It leaves you in a quandary; should you just go ahead and open the link your friend posted and hope for the best, or should you not even try out of fear of being phished or worse? There are actually a few different ways to tell if a website is safe, for both desktop and mobile devices.
