Monday 15th November
How to protect yourself on the internet.
In terms of communicating with large groups of people blogs and social network sites are extremely useful, however, failure to ensure measures are taken to avoid the exposure of personal information may have severe repercussions. The following comprises of a series of tips and advice, which allows you to make the most out of social network or blog whilst maintaining your safety at the same time. If you are establishing a blog or social network profile, serious thought must be put in to what you are going to disclose and what you are not going to disclose. The following are some key points regarding setting up a blog or social network account.
Passwords:
It is a general rule that the disclosure of passwords should be strictly avoided when dealing with social network sites, as anyone who comes across this password will essentially have obtained the ability to sabotage your profile, and view any information they want about you. Therefore, it is vital that you do not inform anyone of your password, even if you are worried you may forget it. In that case, you can pre-arrange the password to be emailed to you by the social network site, if you answer a personal question you chose about yourself before, eg. What is the name of your first cat?
Your privacy:
Most social networking sites allow people access to other peoples pictures, and event the ability to save them, or to access recent comments they have made or information about their personal life. As a result of this, you may want to consider carefully the details of your privacy settings, as it is these settings that decide the accessibility of your profile to people you know and do not know
. Contact details:
As soon as you disclose information regarding your home, address, phone number, people you do not know will have access to you. In many cases this is not a desired feature, however, if you want to continue exchanges with people who chare common interests ect., but may not actually know you, create a separate blogging account with none of your personal information.
Blogging material:
Blogging is and extremely popular way of publishing and sharing views you may feel very passionate about. Although this is good in many cases, the approach you adopt when discussing this information must remain sensitive and respectful, as you d not know who may be offending or whose views you may be contradicting when blogging. This specifically applies when talking about matters regarding religion, or race or war.
Ecommerce websites
If you are using ecommerce sites, which I just found out means sites you buy stuff from, you must ensure that the site you use if established, legitimate and well known as when making online purchases very sensitive information is at stake, including things like credit card details. Ensure that the site you are using has the online credit card verification feature, which enables you to make transactions safely without anyone ells viewing your details.
Advantages of communicating sites:
- You can exchange information you feel strongly about.
- You can maintain communication with friends or family from long distances.
- Video conferencing increases the sentiment of your online exchange; these can be accessed through social network sites.
- Increases the speed at which information can be exchanged, with things like emails and instant messaging.
Disadvantages of communicating site:
-Hacking is a serious problem, in this event very offensive material and often hilarious information can be posted on your wall, with often destructive aftermath on the victims part.
- Social networks are known as very addictive, and if you are not capable of restraint, can corrupt your social and work life as you becoming progressively more attached to your profile.
If you choose to abide by these simple steps and apply basic common sense, there is no reason why you should not enjoy your IT experiences free of any disturbances. Thank you for reading and come again.
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