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.
Online safety is important for people's well being and it protects people's personal information. Without internet safety, I think it would be very dangerous. Even with the safety, people can make fake profiles to talk to the person they want to and eventually find out where they live, where they go to school, and other personal information that shouldn't be given out to strangers. Personally, what I do to protect myself online is that I don't friend request people I don't know and I don't accept friend requests from people I don't know. Even if we have mutual friends, if I don't personally know the person, then it could still be a fake profile. I don't share my address and/or cell phone number on the social networking site and I also don't give out my number. A long time ago my sister Katie had an AIM. Some random person start chatting with her on there, not knowing it was a stranger, she kept talking with him. The person started asking for personal information and wanting to know who she was and where she was. My parents ended up calling the police because of some of the inappropriate things the person was saying and they were scared that Katie's safety was in jeopardy. From then on my siblings and I stopped using AIM.
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