Betty teaches you the importance of keeping your OFFLINE identity separate from your ONLINE identity
Betty
Cyber Defender & Clubhouse Supervisor
Betty learned the hard way about sharing too much information online when rumors she had spread through her online blog upset some of her friends. Since then she has made it her goal to educate everyone about what information is inappropriate or unsafe to share online to prevent others from getting hurt.
As a Cyber Defender, Betty focuses on the most important information you should never share online, your offline identity.
A stumble may prevent a fall
- English Proverb
Tea and crumpets
Interests:Chatting, macrame, collecting teacups
June 27 2008
Pictures
As I was going through the rubble I found some photos of students when they attended all the parties and dances we used to host here. Some of the pictures go all the way back to the founding of the school. Ah, they bring back memories. I’ll ask Omni about the possibility of posting some of the faculty’s pictures.
posted by Betty
topics: Miscellaneous
June 24 2008
Safe Online Communication: Commenting on someone else's page
If you read my tip Personal Information: Check your friend's posts, you'll know that you have to be very careful and monitor what your friends are posting on your pages in order to protect your personal information. But you should also be very careful when you post comments on other people's pages and never reveal any of your personal information in a comment. Even if it's not on your page, it can still be traced back to you.
You also need to protect your friends' personal information as much as your own, so be very careful and never include their personal information in your comments either, not even their name. Even though you know your friends' real offline identities, you should still refer to them by their online identities, their alias, when in Cyberspace.
Also talk to your friends and share your cyber defense knowledge with them, so that they know what you're doing to protect them and what you want them to do to protect you in return.
posted by Betty
topics: Safe Online Communication
June 17 2008
Cleaning Up
The Clubhouse is a mess. If I didn't know better I would have thought Ex-Commander Nils blew up the place. How could he have done so much damage in so little time?
At least Commander Omni kicked all the students out so we have a chance to repair it before classes start. It will also give me the chance to make some upgrades. We need a better space for holding parties and dances.
posted by Betty
topics: Miscellaneous
June 10 2008
Personal Information: Your Permanent Record
It's so easy for anyone to publish information to the Internet these days. Whether you're posting content to a blog or social networking profile or commenting on someone else's blog, photo, or video stream, you are leaving little traces of yourself all over Cyberspace. You may not realize exactly how permanent or public these traces are.
Once something is on the Internet, it is there permanently. Even if you wanted to remove it, chances are it has already been copied and archived on several other machines and passed around so many times that you'll never be able to remove every copy. That's why you should always think really hard about something before you publish it on the Internet.
Everything you publish can be traced back to you and reflects on your personal character. Think of it as your permanent record. You wouldn't want to get suspended from school because your principal found pictures of you misbehaving at a party, would you? Or to get turned down for a job 10 years from now because they found out that you had published important secrets on the Web when you were younger and decided that they couldn't trust you. It's becoming a very common practice for colleges and workplaces to use search engines to look up potential students and job applicants to find out what kind of person they are, and many people have been turned down because of what they put on the Internet.
Instead, why not use your Internet permanent record to your advantage? Make sure that the only things published by or about you online are good things. Things that show you are an honest, considerate, hard-working person, and someone a college or employer would be honored to have as part of their organization. Remember: think before you publish, every single time!