How Do I Show Yourself Online Essay

How I show myself online With recent exploits of people using the internet, everyone must use more caution when sharing information about themselves. Even when I was younger and the internet had first come about, my parents integrated the “stranger danger” system when my sister and I were online. Even before chat rooms or web cams were around. We were told that people could still get to us if they wanted, and to be certain we could trust the information we were using. Despite having access to the internet for school research papers. We still went to the library more often.

Now with social media I am even more careful about what information gets on the internet. I use different technological methods to protect my information, as well as my brain. It only makes sense not to post your address on a social media site or public blog, right? I see people constantly posting their exact GPS coordinates on Facebook, and it makes me wonder if they ever think that if someone wanted to get to them they could with a great amount of ease. While there are security features with most social media, it is still an information highway on a signal just begging to be hacked. Signals can be hacked, therefore data …show more content…
This is why my friends are people who truly know me and know the gist of what is going on in my life. Another article emphasizes the risks of social media and children. Children need to be taught the dangers of the information they share on social media. It shouldn’t take a staged kidnapping in a YouTube video for kids to open their eyes and see what is in front of them. Granted since these types of videos are now out there, parents need to show their kids what could happen. It should also not just be a staged video. My parents showed me how ugly the world could be with several different books and