Social Media Safety

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 Social Media Safety
What is social media?
How can I use Social Media
Create a Safe online Profile
Protecting yourself Online
What should I post or not post Online
The Hazards of Social Media Use
Dealing with creepers, trolls and stalkers

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Social Media Safety: What is Social Media?
Social media is where Social media is
people create, share or different from traditional
exchange information, media in many ways,
ideas, pictures/videos including quality,
using websites. number of people who
can see it, it's often
updated, easy to use,
get content online right
away, and once on the
internet it is
permanently there once
“published”. Even if you
delete it!

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 What is Social Media

Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Wordpress,

Blogger, Twitter, Pininterest, LinkedIn,
Flickr, Google+ and Instagram are the
best known and most popular Social
Media Site's.
Used world wide by millions of people for
personal use, business and illegal
activity.

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Social Media Safety How can I use Social Media

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Social Media Safety: Create a Safe online Profile
Your user-name, e-mail addresses and passwords are your
internet security, remember that when you’re setting up
an account on any site, forum or social media site you
choose. People can use your email address to find you
online.
1. Use a different email address for social media account
2. Pick a user-name that is not your e-mail address
3. NEVER POST your e-mail address or any personal
details online, people can steal your identity
4. Use a phrase you will remember like Bg00d2y0u for your
password. Usually requires 6 letters & numbers
5. Never share your passwords, treat it like a credit or debit
card password
6. If you have any doubts or concerns do not join

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Social Media Safety: Changing Settings

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Social Media Safety: Protecting your Privacy
The first rule of social networking: Never post ANY Personal
Assume that everything you post information you don't want
is public and accessible to anyone shared with the world. Every
forever. These networks are site, forum etc. has a
great for sharing and connecting, settings or option panel
not so great for private
communication. So think before
where you can control what
you post. others see. It is VERY
important to find this and
Who can read yourprofile, see check:
pictures and/orlocation;
Who can see yourposts and
activities;
What information is shared with
external sites and businesses;
Which applications can accessyour
data;
What information yourfriends can
share about you;
Which sites integrate with your
social network ( for example,
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Social Media Safety: Protecting your Self
Choose who you connect with or add as a friend carefully.

Most people you’ll meet online are genuine and decent, but just
as in the rest of the world, some are up to no good and enjoy
hurting others online. These people may misuse the
information you disclosed to damage your reputation in real
life, harass you, stalk you, hack your email, even jeopardize
your job and physical safety.

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Social Media Safety: Protecting your Self

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Social Media Safety: Dealing with creepers, trolls and stalkers
A creeper is a stranger who goes through your
profile to get information on you.
To avoid make sure your profile's or pages are set
to private if you do not want strangers seeing it.
A troll is a person who monitors online forums
waiting to comment negatively on a post or
person in order to try and start an online
argument. They bait you with their comment. The
people who do this are often known for it and you
will see these people's comments on places like
public facebook forums

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Social Media Safety: Dealing with creepers, trolls and stalkers
Avoiding trolls can be done by simply ignoring
their comment publicly and reporting it to the site
admins. Take screen shots of the postings on
you and save it.
If they continue to harrass you on another site,
such as, or the the person has
begun cyber-stalking you.
Dealing with a stalker
Keep track of all content directed at you, days,
times, take and keep screen shots. Once you
have this go to the police and report them
immediately.

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Social Media Safety: Adult Bully's
Recognizing bullying
“Cyber-bullying is when a person uses the Internet and social
networking in order to deliberately cause repeated harm to another
individual or to embarrass them. This includes threats, sexual
harassment or continued unwanted negative contact with a person via
email, social networks, forums or instant messaging.”

Cyber-bullies have also been known to post personal information such

as phone numbers, private messages, addresses and full names in
groups.

The best thing to do when being confronted with a cyber-bully is:

1.Ignore them
2.Block their emails or instant messages and never respond to them.
3.Arguing back and forth on a forum, for example, can only drag out the
cyber-bullying and can cause the situation to become out ofcontrol.
4.Keep all messages and content related to the bully,
record days and Times, Report it to the police if it does
Not stop

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Social Media Safety: Adult Bully's

The goal of an adult bully is to gain power over another

person, and make himself or herself the dominant
adult. They try to humiliate victims, and "show them
who is boss.
* Cyberbullying can lead to suicide, even among adults.

Cyber bullying affects victims in different ways than traditional

bullying. It can follow a victim everywhere 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week, from work, to the mall and all the way into the comfort of
their home - usually safe from traditional forms of bullying.

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Social Media Safety: Screen Shots
Taking a screen shot

For windows press PrtScn = Windows captures the entire

screen and copies it to the (invisible) clipboard.

For MAC users hold down command ⌘ key and shift and press the
number 3 on your keyboard =. Your Mac captures the entire screen and
saves it as a file on the desktop. The file name will look like “Screen shot
2014-11-27 at 08.45.00 AM.png”.

IOS phone's press at Home and Sleep/Wake at the same time. The
screen flashes white. Your device captures the entire screen and saves
it as a photo.

Android hold down at the same time Volume Down and Power for 1–2
seconds. The screen flashes white. Your device captures the entire
screen and saves it as a photo

http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

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Social Media Safety: Adult Bully's

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 Social Media Safety
Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/social-networking.aspx

http://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/cnt/rsks/nln-ctvts/scl-ntwrkng-eng.aspx
http://www.ncpc.org/topics
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/adult-bullying.html
http://nobullying.com/
http://www.ehow.com/about_5066146_cyberbullying-
bahsttipc:s/./hwtwmw.take-a-screenshot.org/

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