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Online Safety: What to Tell Your Child About Social Media Posts
13.09.2023
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 to tell your child about online publications 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 posted online, 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 may 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 with the information we voluntarily leave on the internet, as anyone can use it.
In Tik Tok, there's a whole account dedicated to finding people through videos. Anyone who wants to challenge a user named josemonkey can record themselves in any location in the world 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 media, so the woman asked josemonkey to find out where the video was recorded. And he did: state, city, parking lot, and even the exact spot on the lawn where Ginnafer was standing when she recorded 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 the public domain: home addresses and places of study, phone numbers, passport details, parents' card numbers, passwords.
2) Do not get involved in serious disputes 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3) Do not publish photos, videos and posts that could put you in a bad light.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. You should not trust strangers with personal information.
5) Trust your parents and tell them about what worries you: for example, if a stranger online is too persistently interested in your personal life or things that you do not want to talk about.
On the hotline you can consult on children's safety issues, including on the Internet:
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