For an internet experience that is safe and enjoyable, practice cyberethics: common sense, good judgment, and law abidance. Use the internet to communicate, do research, enjoy music and entertainment, financial interaction and expand your social and business networks. Don’t be a cyberbully, or encourage that behavior. Don’t use copyrighted information as personally yours or download and share copyrighted entertainment. Be honest and don’t pretend to be someone you are not but be careful about the personal information you share on the internet; check that the page you are on is secure if you are filling out personal information. Always treat others as if you were face-to-face, being respectful and considerate, and don’t YELL in capital letters.
Protect your online character by keeping your personal information private. Don't mix your public and private lives; use separate email accounts. Use the privacy settings on social networks, be careful with your words and the types of photographs you post. Take charge of your online reputation by being diligent and surfing the top web browsers for information that is available for anyone to view. Search for your name and/or your name in quotation marks along with keywords like where you live, a hobby or your employer. Also check nick names, common misspellings of your name, telephone numbers, current and past addresses, email addresses, and associations. You may also try searching for your social security number and credit card numbers. If you do find anything you don't want shared, take action, and ask that friend, company, the web site owner or administrator to remove it.
Parents can minimize the risk of online predators by understanding how they work, helping kids understand the precautionary measures they can take themselves, reducing the potential of a child becoming a victim and knowing what to do if your child is targeted. Know which areas of the internet predators go to find victims and be aware of how they seduce their targets with attention, understanding, and gradually introducing sexual content into their conversations. Talk to your children about potential online danger and teach them not to answer instant messages from strangers, share personal information, open up images from unknown sources, and how to choose neutral images for their avatars and neutral user names, and to stay in public areas of a chat room. Give them the confidence to get away from any conversation that becomes too personal or sexual in nature, and to tell an adult immediately if they feel frightened or uncomfortable. Monitor your children's online use by having the computer in an open area of the home, use parental control software, check the history of visited sites and downloaded images, visit the chat rooms they are using and set up an email account within the family email address. Know what safeguards are used on computers your children may use outside your home. Do not blame the child if you feel they have become targeted, save all documentation of websites, chat logs and email addresses and contact your local police. Be aware and alert to your children’s internet activities at all times.
Now here, I am hiding a few pics I want to include on my Week 7 webpage project... so don't peek!
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