Internet Safety || Your friends

Hello Everyone,
Most people don't realize how much of a big and scary place the internet can be. It is home to cyber-bullying and is a place where horrible people can groom younger or more vulnerable people. 

Social Media is a great way to connect with people such as your friends and family, but, it's super important to keep your Instagram/Facebook or whatever social media account private for many reasons, such as;

• You don't know who is looking at your photos, do you really want a stranger to be watching what you have to say, what you do with your friends or peering over your selfies and pictures?
• Identity theft - yep! Someone can steal your identity 
• Potential Employers can see what you are tagged in, commenting on and other various aspects of your day to day life if your profile is not private, and there are numerous ways this could put them off hiring you-and plenty of examples to look at! 

Snapchat is a common form of social media now, and as the pictures 'disappear' within whatever time limit you set, they can still be 'Screen-Shotted' or 'Snap-Saved'. Whatever you post on the internet stays on the internet forever...

What You Can Do

Facebook allows it's users to set many privacy settings, such as not letting people who aren't your friends view your profile, images and cover photos/profile pictures. To read more on how you can secure your Facebook Profile, Please click here.

Twitter is 'All or Nothing' when it comes to privacy, and that is up to you. Just make sure that you keep what you want private off your Twitter account if it's Public, and don't tweet anything horrible.

As for Snapchat, it has two privacy settings. One for who can send you snaps, and another for who can see your story. For who can send you snaps, you have two options - 'Everyone' and 'My Friends'. And for who can view your Snapchat Story, there are three options which are; 'Everyone', 'My Friends' and 'Custom'. 'Custom' is where you have the option to choose which ones of your friends can and can not see your story. If you want to read more of the Snapchat privacy settings, please click here.  Remember, not all Snapchats disappear! 

 

Finally, on Instagram you can set your profile to Private or Public (like Twitter), although Instagram do have a lot of information on their privacy settings available to you. If you want to read them, please click here.

I hope this post has been useful to you all, and please please please remember to keep your profiles private and only post what you wouldn't mind to be on the internet forever!

Love The Blogging Box xxxx