Social media sites made stalking a lot easier for all of us, unfortunately, this includes online predators and opportunistic individuals. Here are 5 ways you may be living more publicly than you think.
Broadcasting Your Location In Social Media
People, especially kids and teens, love to tell the world where they are, where they’ve been, and where they’re going to in social media sites, particularly Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, etc. When we broadcast our whereabouts using location-sharing programs found in social media sites right now, it makes us vulnerable from various unwelcome personal contacts.
Not Thinking About Online Privacy
We usually oversee this, but we make lasting records online about our lives each time we post something. We should all understand that nothing is really private online. As soon as they are out there, it can go as far as the other side of the world and viewed by who knows who. Think about online privacy and talk about it with your kids, read the privacy policy and above all set your privacy settings.
Using Your Real Full Name in Virtual World
Obviously, this help identity theft a lot easier; opportunistic individuals can easily copy our identity and do whatever they want to do with it with your name.
Allowing Your Kids to Sign Up On Their Own Before You Know the Facts
Whether it’s for a new app for their smartphone or tablet PC, or app in social media sites, especially Facebook, or even signing up for a ringtone, new things come out in virtual road day after day – and your kids will more likely hear about it before you do. Make sure you keep up to date on whatever your kids are doing online, you can never be too careful in keeping them safe.