Friday, August 23rd

Journal - What is the importance of online safety and protecting your information? What do you do to protect yourself online? Share an experience you or someone you know has had with online safety.

There are many reasons as to why online safety and protecting your information is important. For starters, you don't want someone to pose as you. On top of that, you don't want any creepy folks to come after you. Another thing is that people can steal your banking and credit card information and can buy thousands of dollars in stuff as a nice little surprise for you to find out later. To protect myself, I choose to be the bright little person I am and don't share my address just anywhere online. I also don't share any of my banking info anywhere. On top of this, I choose not to respond to the kind people sending me emails asking for my credit card information to help make my life more simple when,  in fact, they are lying. 
An experience I've had with online safety is when I first made a Facebook and didn't have my privacy settings set up to a standard. Because of this, everyone in the whole wide world could see all about the life of Sarah Rawitch. Soon after, strange people from around the country tried to add me on Facebook and I had no connections with them at all. Soon after, I learned that it's a smart idea to use privacy settings.