Keeping+information+private+and+staying+safe+on+social+networks+(MySpace,+Facebook,+Twitter)

Welcome to Keeping information private and staying safe on Social Networks (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter) By: Tenzin Lungrig, Samiha Thapa and Shiny J. Samuel Links: Personal information includes your real name, address, phone number, email address, age, sex, and anything else that a person could use to find out more information about you. Although social networking sites like Facebook requires all this information in order to make a profile. The solution: Keep your personal information personal by using **PRIVACY SETTINGS.**
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 * What is personal information?**

Many incidents have proved that putting personal information on the internet could be dangerous. This is an open option for criminals as they can use your personal information, to steal your identity. Then when a crime is done, they can blame it on you.. Criminals can use your personal information to threat you and hurt your family too. So it is very important to keep your personal information safe, because remember, the internet is open to ANYONE.
 * Why is it bad to expose your personal information?**

Try checking up your name on google, if either your facebook, myspace or any other social site comes up check your profile. What has been exposed to a stranger? If it is only your name, picture and sex, it's fine. Although if a stranger can view your whole profile, and all your pictures, you have to check your privacy settings. Now go to google images and type your name. If you find any of your pictures visable on google images then go check your privacy settings.
 * How to know whether your personnal information has been exposed to the internet?**

Privacy settings on facebook should be the first thing you will check to make sure your privacy settings are good.Below this you will see a list of instructions to make sure your privacy on facebook is right:
 * How to keep personal information personal?**

What is a Social Networking Website?
It is sometimes reffered to as a "friend-of-a-friend" which connect people you already know. There are many reasons for a social network; one maybe for social purposes, a romantic life and one maybe purely for buisness. All social networks provide information about a person and a communication tool such as IM, chat, chat rooms, messaging, forums and email. Groups and subgroups are also created in social network websites. On certain sites you can search for people based on a certain criteria while other websites introduce you to people based on a connection you may share.

Statistics

 * 35% of the adult population in the world have one profile on a social network website
 * 51% of the adult population have two profiles on a social network website
 * 75% of the people (ages 18 to 24) have a profile on a social network website
 * The Pew Research (source USA today) has shown:89% of the people who use social network websites use it for contacting friends; 59% use it to make plans with friend; 49% use it to make new friends
 * A little more than 100 social network websites

**Safety and Sharing**
You should always watch wat you put on your personal website or any profile. Things such as intimate life details, pictures of your family and kids as well as where your work. If you would like to keep your family and yourself safe there are some things you should start by doing.
 * NEVER put your cell phone number online, you will never know who will call you and for what reason.
 * NEVER put your address online unless you want someone to send you something. In that case you should send a personal message to the person and not post it online where anyone can see it.
 * NEVER tell strangers or random people where you work and where your children go to school.
 * NEVER put anyones (family members) name on a public profile since this will make it much easier for anyone to search for them.
 * NEVER put links about stores and schools around your area if you don't want people knowing where you live.
 * NEVER post up pictures that include loacation names that would let other people know where you love or which area you live in.

**Facebook Security Trick:**

 * [|www.reclaimprivicy.org]
 * dark grey button "Scan for Privicy"
 * drag it into your bookmark bar
 * go back to your facebook page and click on your "scan for privicy" bookmark
 * go through it and scan through all your privicy settings
 * make all the adjustments you would like to
 * again click on the "scan for pirvicy" bookmark
 * go through all the option and make adjustments according to your choice

How Stuff Works

 * privacy settings
 * profile editing
 * updating

How you can you protect yourself
1. Limit the amount of personal information you post 2. Rememebr the interenet is a publib resource 3. Be wary of strangers 4. Be skeptical 5. Always update your privicy settings as well as other settings 6. Be wary of third party applications' 7. Use strong passwords 8. Check privicy policies 9. Keep software, particularely your web borwser, up-to-date 10. Use and maintian anti-virus software

Social Moods
On facebook, myspace, orkut, twitter, etc there are always social moods. For example if there is a natural disaster everyones moods will change accoring to the society. People will comment, share pictures, post status and etc. Its all acording to what the social status of the social society is.Beware of what you put on the networking sites. People might get harmed or insulted by writing inapropriate things.