Internet protection is highly applicable to everything you do on the computer. Everyday children, teens and adults use facebook, myspace, myyearbook, chat rooms, aim, yahoo blogs and so much more. I want to help teach you how to protect yourself or your children.
For adults:
Did you know employers can look at your profiles or blogs? There are privacy setting so that only people you are friends with can see your profile, or you can hide your profile so no one can find you. As an adult if you have a social network it should have information that you would not care that everybody could see. As for your children, checking your child’s profiles and blogs will help eliminate predators, misleading information and activity that is not condoned in the household.
For children:
Do you know how much information people can find off of your profile? A blog or profile where you enter your information can lead people to find out information about you or others that you may not want them to know. As a child you should not place personal information such as your phone number, school, or address on your profile.
Ways to protect your face:
· Do not place revealing information about yourself on your profile such as, your phone number or address
· Change your password every few months and don’t tell or write it down for anyone
· Change the privacy settings on your profiles so only friends can see your information
· Screen the people who you add as friends to your profile
Here is a video that shows what not to do, and how not to protect your password and username.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteIt is an interesting post.
The internet provides no more safety than meeting a stranger in real life. Because of the false security, many people get scammed for information and they don't even realize.
You can increase child internet safety by creating Limited User Accounts for your children from your Administrative Account. This restricts children from changing system settings, installing any new software which includes chat programs, games, etc.