Privacy is the right to decide who has access to your personal information and how that information should be used.
Think carefully about the information you share online and understand how social networking sites work to use them responsibly and safely.
1. Know your potential audience.
Be aware that anyone, including site operators, advertisers, colleges, potential employers, friends and parents, as well as dangerous people or sexual predators may access, use, and forward the information you share online.
2. Use privacy settings to control who has access to information you put online, including your profile page, your photos, your “wall,” and your online journals. Do not share your phone numbers, home address, date of birth, school or team name, travel plans, social security number or other national ID numbers, family financial information, bank or credit card numbers. Don’t share your passwords with anyone.
3. Don’t accept “friends” you do not know in the real world.
Never agree to meet anyone in person you have only “met” online.
4. Think before you post.
If you would not want a college or a prospective employer to see it, or if you wouldn’t share it with your parents, don’t post it. Once you put something online, it is difficult if not impossible to take it back. Respect the privacy of others. Don’t identify others on your page in a way they
would not identify themselves or post photos they would not post. Protect yourself. Ask friends to take down content about you that you would not post yourself, and un-tag photos that you may find embarrassing in the future.
5. You are your own best protector online.
Online conduct has consequences. Make smart choices.
(print version courtesy of Intel)
