Are You Too Clickable?
If your profile is clickable, you may be sharing too much personal information. So, what’s safe to post? Find out by reading through our three “R’s” – reduce, revise and regulate:
• Reduce: Keep personally identifying information on-line to a minimum. This means examining content shared across all on-line spaces and removing inappropriate or questionable photos, wall posts, forum posts, blogs, online contacts, personal details on social networking profiles and account information for registered on-line services.
• Revise: Ensure all sites and on-line applications accessed are age-appropriate and kid-friendly, weeding out anything considered unsuitable for children. This includes forums, social networking sites, web and mobile applications, chat services, on-line games, and video and music sharing sites. Parents should survey for inappropriate material, age restrictions, privacy policies and terms of use, security measures and the demographic make-up. This step also requires adjusting available privacy and security controls on social sites, chat services, and IM applications.
• Regulate: After the clean up, follow up by going over a set of rules to govern Internet use, instil safe and healthy on-line habits, and maintain a respectable and low-key on-line presence. This includes when you can go on-line, for how long, what activities you can do on-line, what websites and services you can use and what information you can share.
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