Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live Spaces are services people can use to connect with others to share information like photos, videos, and personal messages.
The following tips to help protect your child when they use social networking website:
- Don’t click on any links in messages. Treat these links in messages on these sites as links in email messages.
- If you suspect that a message is fraudulent, use an alternate method to contact your friend to find out.
- Don’t allow social networking services to scan your e mail address book in order to avoid giving away e mail addresses of your friends.
- Type the address of your social networking site directly into your browser or use your personal bookmarks in order to avoid entering your account name and password into a fake site where personal information could be stolen.
- Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network to avoid identity thieves.
- Choose your social network carefully and understand the privacy policy. Find out if the site monitors content that people post.
- Remember that what you write on a social networking site is permanent. Even if you can delete your account, anyone on the Internet can easily print the information or save it to a computer.
