1. When you sign up for any account like You-tube, MySpace, Facebook or any other site, check around and take your time looking at the security and privacy features that each individual site offers. Most sites will have a designated area for these options.
2. Check around for any software that will make your computer more secure. If you would like me to find some that will work for your system just email me. When setting up your wireless router always enable MAC address filtering so that you can tell the router what computers are allowed on your network. I would recommend using Lavasoft Ad-Watch 2007. There is a free version on their site. You can pay to get full access of the program, but the free one does a good job.
3. Do not ever put information on a site that you are having second thoughts about. If you think that the site looks a little odd just don't use it.
4. When you are using internet in a public place where you are using a network that multiple people are on, use extra caution too make sure that no one can access files on your computer.
5. When using a laptop in a public setting pay extra attention to people that might be trying to look at your screen too see what you are working on or what sites that you are visiting. 3M offers screen privacy filters for notebooks. They just slide right over the screen and you can only see the screen clearly if you are looking at it directly.
6. When on MySpace set your profile to where you don't have your top friends listed,here's why. Lets say that one of your friends revealed more about themselves on their profile then you care to, such as location etc. If someone went on there profile and saw that you had been let's say "hanging out" with that person, then they would know the location of you and possibly other information. For some this might be a little extreme, but it is just one more step that you can take to become more private and safe online.
7. When sending an email to multiple people, always put everyones address in the BCC: field. BCC stands for "Blind Carbon Copy", this means that when everyone receives the email they can not see the email addresses of the other people that received that same email. This is just a little courtesy that you could show to the people that you are sending an email to. This is a step that is rarely taken when sending a chain email, but it is very important for the people who would like to keep their email address private.
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1 comment:
These are some good ideas for safety on the Internet.
Did you know that the largest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17?
I've also recently learned that according to the second Youth Internet Safety Survey there is a documented increase in the proportion of kids reporting unwanted exposure to pornography.
I'd love to hear your comments on some blog posts I published a while back about cyberbullying and online predators:
1. Safety Tips for Parents: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/03/25/a-parents-guide-to-internet-safety-for-children/
2. Online Predators: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/04/03/protecting-kids-online-the-myths-and-realities-of-online-predators/
3. Cyberbullying: http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/04/07/cyberbullying-the-new-playground/
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