Social Media – The Good, The Bad and the 'Not-So-Private'

  In a blog of 300 words, reply to the following questions:

1. Are you a member of a social networking website?  Why or why not?
2. Have you checked your privacy settings lately?  Who can see the information that you put out there?
3. What kind of information are you allowing others to have access to?  Have you thought about this before?
4. What kinds of things are safe to post?  Unsafe?  List some unsafe information that you should keep to yourself and not allow others to see online.
5. How can we become more responsible users of social network websites?  Why is this so important?

Yes, I am a member of a social networking site because it is easier to connect with people from far away places and to see the latest news on everyone around the world. Now a days, teachers are making their own twitter profile to interact with the students if they need help or if students need to tell teachers something. I feel, by the end of 2013, most teachers will have a twitter account because it is more convenient to have for most cases. No because i am confident that i set my profile so that only a limited amount of people can see what i say and that i  do not reveal any personal information to any social networking website. I keep my twitter and my Facebook open to everyone so it would be easier to find me if they anyone is looking for me. I allow others to see what i am up to so they are updated on what I do. I have thought about this before because i am cautious of strangers looking through my social networking sites. Things that i consider that are safe to post would be to update people on what is going on and to promote something going on in your community or something going on around the world. Some unsafe things to post would be your personal info like passwords to your different accounts because people can log in and change the password so they could keep it. Personal information that are only for you to keep would be your SIN number because that is what the government looks at to see who you are. We can be more responsible users of social network websites by being careful of what we post on a daily basis and to ignore pop-up ads that offer us things because those are viruses waiting to happen.