Cyber Safety: In the Era Of

Social Networking

What Is Social Networking?

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“Social Networking is the way the 21st century communicates today”

User based Interactive Community driven Relationships Emotional Content

Characteristics Of Social Networks

Lack Of Anonymity Time consuming Scams and Harassment

Pitfalls Of Social Networking

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Importance of Privacy Settings

The following video demonstrates the importance of privacy settings in any social networking site.

Next few slides will demonstrate how to set up privacy in face book which is a social networking site. These privacy settings are applicable to other networking sites such as Orkut, Twitter, Flickr etc. with minute

Click on “Account”Then on “Privacy Settings”

Use theseoptions to controlthe informationpeople see aboutyou!

“Only friends” is the BEST option to limit who sees your info

Check to see what your friends can see about you. If you don’t like what they are able to see, change it!

You can choosewhat can be seen about you through the sitesapplications!

Choose your gamesand applicationswisely!

This is the mostsecure setting forapplications (uncheck all)

ReferencesCyber Safety: http://www.cyber-safety.com/teens.htmlNetsmartz workshop: http://www.netsmartz.org/ACMA: Cyber Smart http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/Definition of Social Networking from http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com