What are you looking at and Who is looking at you

One of the main premises of online safety is knowing what kind of footprint you are leaving behind. However, hackers aside, do you know who else may be looking or following your online keystrokes? The article "How your Facebook posts give away your age, gender and personality type: Research confirms women love baking and babies, while for men it's Fifa and beards" written by Victoria Woollaston for Daily Mail back in 2013 (article link listed in credits) discusses a different way that your activity online may be used. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania conducted a study based upon the Facebook status updates posted by users, the information gathered was analyzed and only collected based upon the few words we use to describe how we feel about our day before we hit post. Take a look back at your Facebook posts, what do you think these posts would tell someone who had never met you about who you are as a person? What kind of demographical information might you have let slip without ever realizing it, would someone be able to target you for product sales, or could you have compromised your home by posting vacation pictures. Everyone has an expectation of privacy but when we post day to day activities online do we still expect to have that privacy to the fullest extent? 

Click on the link below to read "How your Facebook posts give away your age, gender and personality type: Research confirms women love baking and babies, while for men it's Fifa and beards" and feel free to post your thoughts on this blog post in the comment section below! We look forward to continuing the conversation of #ESafety with you! 

Written By: Malyssa T.

Article Reference
How your Facebook posts give away your age, gender and personality type: Research confirms women love baking and babies, while for men it's Fifa and beards
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2435040/Facebook-How-posts-away-age-gender-personality-says-Penn-University.html#ixzz45BmeawZw
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

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Guide how to protect in Social Media

Hi guys! I found this video which talking about Facebook and Twitter privacy. This video will be really useful because Facebook and Twitter is the most popular social media, so our privacy can exposure easily to other people. 

Please check this video and protect ourselves!

Video by: Team Ramrod

BY: Chaerin Park

How to photographers protect pictures on Social Media

Good afternoon,

I found really interesting information for those people who likes to work with photographs. According to Matthew Corkins he is a writer, Social Media is very productive for photographers and in other hand it can lead to stilling someone picture (work). He gives us couple of advises of how to protect pictures if its your own pictures. Those people who work in this industry or might start to work might be interested. To protecting your own work on Social Media, watermarking could be as one of the solution to the this problem. Of course it can makes pictures looks different or ugly, but at least everyone would know whose work it is. Also he suggests don't upload the full size of professional pictures in social media because other can download it and print it, but in this way they wouldn't have good quality. To upload all pictures online also bad idea, its better to post only few pictures and give people the link to your professional website. People who works with promoting their pictures on social media should know about those details. 

Thank you everyone for attention,
Iana 

Corkins, M. (2013, June 13). Social Media Safety For Photographers - Resource Magazine. Retrieved April 07, 2016, from http://resourcemagonline.com/2013/06/social-media-safety-for-photographers/28578/

This work, which the author - MATTHEW CORKINS, available under the license Creative Commons «Attribution» ( «Attribution») 4.0 World.

Basic How To: Protecting Yourself in Social Media

Hello All!

I have decided to create a quick  PREZI presentation on some simple steps on how YOU could protect yourself in social media. The sources are listed below and at the end of the presentation. 

Reference:

Stay Safe Online. (2016). Social Networks. National Cyber Security Alliance.

Retrieved from

https://staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/protect-your-personal-information/social-networks

Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “December 2015”. Identity Theft and Identity Fraud. Government of Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Retrieved from

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/id-theft-vol-eng.htm

Important to know and remember!

Hey everyone, 

at the bottom you can find the video how to protect yourself in Social Media. It is basic first steps for people who just start using social media or for those who use social media for a while and might forget about this small details. #ESafety

Stay safe everyone,

Iana


 
Artwork «Your Safety on Social Media - Leadership in Action» created by the author by the name of Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity, published under a license Creative Commons «Attribution» ( «Attribution») 4.0 World.

#ESafety: Setting an example and thinking outside the box!

Hey all!

Hope you have been keeping up with our blog here and seen our tweets passing around word of #ESafety!

Take a look at this brief Youtube video (link below) posted by levellearning which goes over some valuable details in using Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a different way to protect yourself online and while you may not have thought of it prior to today, it can be a worthy resource. By using a site such as Creative Commons you are giving yourself assured safety that you can control how your property or thoughts are going to be used by others with internet access. Think outside the box and open your mind up to the possibilities of internet safety meaning more than changing your password every three months or so. View the link below and perhaps try Creative Commons for yourself! Is this something that you would like to see available to you through your college years? Have you ever worked with Creative Commons before? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below!

Copyright and Advance Search using Creative Commons

levellearning

Published on Jul 31, 2012

Digital Literacy Induction Abingdon and Witney College

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Written By: Malyssa T.

#ESafety and Social Media

A purpose of this project is notice how to protect ourselves in social media and why is it important to in social network.

We like spend time use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media. When we use social media, we leave a Digital Footprint. A digital footprint is a trace of data when you are using internet. For example, Facebook, browse history, emails and passwords and even your private information.

Each social media has private mode, but actually it is just perfunctory step. Hackers can discover our private information and they will deliver spam or post illegal internet advertisement by your id and many others.

During use social media, I never thought my account could be hacked, but my account already hacked by someone and it was use for illegal internet advertisement.

Like my experience, many people have experience like me or people can get under attack from hacker. 

I think, all people do not want to everyone know all about them and our information is not really safe. So, our group will figure out how to protect ourselves in social media.

By: Chaerin Park

Social Media. How do we protect ourselves while inviting everyone in?

Our goal through this blog is to raise awareness for online safety in social media. We have created the hashtag #ESafety as the baseline for the start of a very important conversation and by using this hashtag you can join in!

Do you know what a digital footprint is? A digital footprint is the virtual trail of activity you leave through Facebook posts, Instagram, Google searches, emails, and every single keystroke you make. You may feel this is an exaggeration but it truly is not and you must be aware of the trail you leave behind. Simply because you've lost the password to an account or hit delete or edit does not mean that it's gone for forever. There will still always be a version of your digital footprints floating around in cyber space!

Now that we all understand a bit of the terminology we can start talking about why this topic is so important! The reality is that not everyone out there is out to do good, there are individuals who may be out to hurt you by using your digital footprint against you. It is important to understand the privacy settings available for use and how to use them effectively. It is also of value to you to be aware of exactly what is out there for the world to see and how easy it is to gain access to your personal information. Take a moment to google yourself. Do you like what you see? How would your current or potential employers view you? How would your Grandma view you? Are these findings surprising to you and do you feel that you've put to much of your personal details online? Finding the answers to these questions is the first step in making sure you aware of what anyone can find out about you with or without you knowing about it.

By: Malyssa Tibbo

#ESafety - What Is It?

Hello Readers!

#ESafety is generally an online movement on how us users can protect ourselves from harm - identity theft, hackers- that we may encounter online. This blog is created by George Brown College Students - Malyssa, Kirsten, Alesha, Chaerin, Iana and Joycee, for our Digital Citizenship Course #DcCourse1.

We will be posting about our own thoughts and experiences regarding this topic, and eventually will explore on the basic guidelines for internet safety.

Thank you all for reading, and more post coming soon!

#ESafety - What are your thoughts?

By: Kirsten

Windows ‘94 was my first ever internet experience. The only things that good old computer was used for was Neopets, Pinball, Microsoft Word, and other online gaming. Next up was Piczo, which became popular when I was in 7th to 8th Grade. It was first experience with “blogging”. Though these accounts have not been used for years, I know they still exist and they are somewhere in the internet. Lucky for me, these accounts cannot be seen when I google myself. Same with my Tumblr account, which was created in High school.

The scary part for me is that, though I may be unable to access these accounts -due to forgotten passwords and emails, they still exist. And they will always exist. They will always be part of my Digital footprint.

It doesn’t matter if you’re using the “incognito mode” or you are on secured connections, every information that you input online will always be tracked.

Privacy mode does not always mean private either. These can also be tracked down by hackers or by people in control of the websites. During High school, my mother would always tell me to be careful with what I put on the internet since employers are looking at your profiles. This did not affect me UNTIL I got to college. I started to think more about my future and it hit me.. “Would I hire myself if I see the things that I have posted online?” The answer was easy, NO. A teenage girl who whines a lot about how hard life is, is not so suitable for a lot of companies.

So yes, we must always be aware with how we use the internet and what we put in it. Whether it’s a simple “Selfie” on instagram or your credit card information during your online shopping, these will always exist, and you will never know who will able to access these.

Hi, every one! In my personal view of  protecting yourself in social media, People have to remember personal information can be spoiled by other tracker. For example, what I learned in Digital Citizenship course, when we click or access to the internet, there are left my foot print. that foot print that can be resale  information  to advertiser by tracker. That can  be bring serious problems, so our group can be use digital foot print online website to protect ourselves.  Moreover, people have to make sure to decide to share information as public or open to friends when people have blog or face book, to up load their pictures and other information. this is what I think regarding topic.

Have a good night every one!

Jayeon Goo (Alesha)

Good morning, everyone!

I feel it's important to speak about how to protect ourselves in Social Media. People should know how to do it, and our team create this topic to open discussion how to protect yourself in Social media.
On the beginning i want to say that we should remember at the time we put some information online, many people can see it or get this information, that is why it is important to be sure that you don't give your password to other people,who you don't trust. Also important to know to share personal information on your profile, don't put too many about your yourself because someone can use it. Always make sure you sign out, if you used someone computer or cellphone to get to your websites.
Those are most general points how to protect yourself, as I think.

Take care,

Iana Pokotylo