Personal+Safety

=//**PERSONAL INFORMATION**//= = = =//**Some information is more personal than you think. Information such as the names of sports teams you play on, can be pieced together by an online predator. Some information you should never give out is your age, your name, where you live, your gender, your phone number, or your school. Even the smallest info that you think doesn't matter can be used to find people. So don't give out your info!!!!**//= =//**If you are aking a screen name you should make it something that would not be able to lead someone to you. You shouldn't have it your name. you could make it something like "cylcleh5cl0n" so that no one recognizes you.**//= =//**EMAIL AND SCREEN NAME778905432123**//= == =//**So when you log on other people can get your Email adress. So you want to keep your email adress anonymous. For a email adress do not use your first or last name, your adress, any part of your telephone number or your zipcode or a nickname and don't use inppropriate screenames like seXyman42 and hot baby girl. You also don't want to have a screen name like JohnMSmith@aol.com. Here are some examples of good screen names : sportfan99.5 and whitewater87.**//= =//**PASSWORD SECURITY**//= =//**Passwords to personal accounts should be secret and not easily guessed. Passwords should have 6-12 charecters. They should contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols. You shold not tell anyone your password, even if you think that they can be trusted.**//However, if someone does find out your password, immediatly change it into a completely different sequence, like the one above.= = = =Giving out personal information puts you at risk of cyber stalking. If a stalker is giving you threatening you, don't respond and save in a folder. Never give out personal information. If someone emails you and you don't know them do not read their email and save it to a file so if they email you again you have evidence about the stalker.= =DIFFERENCES between the real world and the internet world= =Some differce between the real world and the internet world is that in the real world people can tell the age af sombody and the emotions, another thing you can tell who is who. In the internet world, people can log into your screenname if they know your password. While in the real world no one can steal your personal information. It is harder to steal real information in the real world.= [|safety quiz] [|quiz created by Nolan and Michael]