Safety In CyberSpace

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• Approx £30,000 per month revenue lost from advertising in this space

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

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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 SETTINGSClick Account, Privacy Settings

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

2) BLOCK SOMEONEClick Account, Privacy Settings

2) BLOCK SOMEONEClick the link under “Block lists”

2) BLOCK SOMEONEType in the full name that appears on the Facebook Profile of the person you wish to block, and/or type in their email 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 (email method is more accurate).

3) CHANGE YOUR NAME ON FBClick Account, Account Settings

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

3) CHANGE YOUR NAME ON FBType 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.• www.thinkuknow.co.uk: Great cyber safety

website. Report people online via the ‘CLICK CEOP’ logo.

• www.childline.org.uk: Talk to someone in confidence at this page or on 0800 1111.

• In school: Talk to your form tutor or a Peer Mentor.