Safety In CyberSpace

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The Internet! Over 500 million people are registered with Facebook. 50% use it almost every day. Many of them are minors. Keeping yourself safe in this dynamic environment is vitally important.

ON FACEBOOK – DON’T DON’T accept friend requests from people that you don’t know. DON’T keep anyone on your friends list that has started to be unkind to you. DON’T add or accept people for the sake of having a lot of friends on social networking sites - it’s not a competition!

DO clear out your friends list when you get home. DO block people who you don’t know but they keep asking to be your friend. DO make sure the ‘friend’ on your Facebook is really that person. DO make sure that you’d be happy for each and every friend on your list to read your status’ and know the information on your profile. ON FACEBOOK – DO

PRIVACY Your Facebook info can be seen by Friends of Friends – people you may not know. However, there are ways to prevent this...

WHAT CAN YOU DO? 1.Change your privacy settings: Change your privacy settings to friends only. 2.Block people: Block anyone that could cause a problem. That way, if that person types your name in in the search bar, you won’t even come up as a result. 3.Change your name on Facebook: By changing your name on Facebook to a nickname of some kind, then only your friends will be able to find you as only close friends will know that nickname.

1) CHANGE YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS Click Account, Privacy Settings

1) CHANGE YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS Click Friends Only, To change this...

1) CHANGE YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS To this... Click here to finish

1) CHANGE YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS It is worth checking out the other sections of the privacy page, for example:

2) BLOCK SOMEONE Click Account, Privacy Settings

2) BLOCK SOMEONE Click the link under “Block lists”

2) BLOCK SOMEONE Type in the full name that appears on the Facebook Profile of the person you wish to block, and/or type in their address. Then click ‘Block this user’. Several users may be offered with the same name so be sure to choose the correct one from the list ( method is more accurate).

3) CHANGE YOUR NAME ON FB Click Account, Account Settings

3) CHANGE YOUR NAME ON FB On the “Name” line, click change

3) CHANGE YOUR NAME ON FB Type an Alternative name, then click Save Changes

OTHER SAFEGUARDS Inappropriate photo : click the ‘Report this photo’ button which is under the picture. Inappropriate conversation : print screen to keep a record, tell an adult, block the other person. : Great cyber safety website. Report people online via the ‘CLICK CEOP’ logo. : Talk to someone in confidence at this page or on In school : Talk to your form tutor or a Peer Mentor.