What are some Key Risks with Using the Internet?
Students Posting Personal Pictures
Refrain from posting a picture. Photos can invite trouble or unwanted attention. Students should not use personal pictures on any internet site. As some Web 2.0 tools allow students to create their own Avatar, it is important that parents and teachers ensure that avatars are age appropriate and non-descriptive. Recognize that avatars don't have to represent a person.
Personal or Identifying Details
Avoid any personal or identifying details when posting on any internet site. Do not post in advance about locations that you will be or about areas that you live near.
Content is Timeless
Internet content is timeless, and keep in mind that even if you remove content, it might be archived or syndicated. If you do not want something read, do not post it to the Internet. Take a second to think about what you're posting about yourself and your friends. Is it something you would post if your professor, boss, kid sister or arch rival was standing right behind you? Even though we tend to think about our personal sites as private, in reality, many can be seen by just about anyone. Is there information about you that is embarrassing or that fraudsters could use? Remember that what you post could be online forever.
Cyberbullying
Bullying takes place every day on the playgrounds and in the classrooms of thousands of schools worldwide. With the introduction of social media and social networking to schools, Cyberbullying is becoming more and more common. According to Wikipedia, Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. Using social networking tools does not keep students free from Cyberbullying. If students feel they are being harmed or harassed in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner, they need to inform their teacher or other school personnel.
Posting Links to Inappropriate Material
With the mass amount of content that is available on the internet, it is impossible to control addresses to specific material or content. When students post links to material or content on the internet, problems beyond their control may arise. It is the user's responsibility not to initiate access to inappropriate material and alert the teacher of any inappropriate links.
Encountering Inappropriate Material
Users may encounter material, which is controversial, and which users, parents, teachers or administrators may consider inappropriate or offensive. However, on the Internet it is impossible to control the content of data and a user may discover controversial materials. It is the user's responsibility not to initiate access to such material.
Students Posting Personal Pictures
Refrain from posting a picture. Photos can invite trouble or unwanted attention. Students should not use personal pictures on any internet site. As some Web 2.0 tools allow students to create their own Avatar, it is important that parents and teachers ensure that avatars are age appropriate and non-descriptive. Recognize that avatars don't have to represent a person.
Personal or Identifying Details
Avoid any personal or identifying details when posting on any internet site. Do not post in advance about locations that you will be or about areas that you live near.
Content is Timeless
Internet content is timeless, and keep in mind that even if you remove content, it might be archived or syndicated. If you do not want something read, do not post it to the Internet. Take a second to think about what you're posting about yourself and your friends. Is it something you would post if your professor, boss, kid sister or arch rival was standing right behind you? Even though we tend to think about our personal sites as private, in reality, many can be seen by just about anyone. Is there information about you that is embarrassing or that fraudsters could use? Remember that what you post could be online forever.
Cyberbullying
Bullying takes place every day on the playgrounds and in the classrooms of thousands of schools worldwide. With the introduction of social media and social networking to schools, Cyberbullying is becoming more and more common. According to Wikipedia, Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. Using social networking tools does not keep students free from Cyberbullying. If students feel they are being harmed or harassed in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner, they need to inform their teacher or other school personnel.
Posting Links to Inappropriate Material
With the mass amount of content that is available on the internet, it is impossible to control addresses to specific material or content. When students post links to material or content on the internet, problems beyond their control may arise. It is the user's responsibility not to initiate access to inappropriate material and alert the teacher of any inappropriate links.
Encountering Inappropriate Material
Users may encounter material, which is controversial, and which users, parents, teachers or administrators may consider inappropriate or offensive. However, on the Internet it is impossible to control the content of data and a user may discover controversial materials. It is the user's responsibility not to initiate access to such material.
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