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Internet safety: what to tell your child about social media posts
Internet-related offenses happen every day, whether it's fraud aimed at stealing your data and money or even stalking. The worst part is that minors can easily become victims of such crimes. In this article, we explain what you need to tell your child about publications on the internet to protect them from злоумышленников.
It's important to understand that getting rid of a digital footprint on the internet is very difficult. Any publication (just a text post, photo, video), once on the internet, will remain there forever. You can take a screenshot of a text post or photo, photos and videos can be downloaded or recorded.
Even after deleting a publication, it can remain in the browser cache for some time. Files deleted from a computer or phone can be recovered using special programs. That's why we need to be very careful about the information we voluntarily leave on the internet, as anyone can use it.
There's a whole account on Tik Tok dedicated to finding people through videos. Anyone who wants to challenge a user with the nickname josemonkey can film themselves anywhere in the world on the street and ask the man to find exactly where they are. This is what Ginnafer, the mother of a 10-year-old girl, did.
Ginnafer's daughter didn't understand why you need to be careful about what you post on social networks, so the woman asked josemonkey to find out where the video was recorded. And he found it: the state, the city, the parking lot, and even the exact point on the lawn where Ginnafer was standing when she filmed the video. All he needed for this was the internet, as well as basic knowledge of orientation in space and how the camera works.
If a person's location can be found just from one video, then what can we say about social networks, in which we ourselves publish a huge amount of personal information, namely: which park we walked in today, which lake we swam in, in which coffee shops we drank coffee.
Here are some simple rules for safe behavior on the internet that you need to discuss with your child:
1) Do not leave important personal information in open access: home addresses and places of study, phone numbers, passport details, parents' card numbers, passwords.
2) Do not get involved in serious arguments on the internet and do not write offensive comments to anyone.
3) Do not publish photos, videos, and posts that could put you in a bad light.
4) Be more careful when communicating with strangers, especially unfamiliar adults. Do not trust strangers with personal information.
5) Trust your parents and tell them about what worries you: for example, if an online stranger is too persistently interested in your personal life or things you don't want to talk about.
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