Keeping Safe

Keeping yourself while blogging online is much simpler than many people believe. Unless you’re using the blog to promote your business, band, or something of the likes you should withhold any personal information that can give away your location. Don’t use your real full name, your real age, and if you upload pictures, try to make sure that the people who are accessing these pictures are people you know in /real life. /
The safest thing to do is just not have a blog, but in this technological world, who doesn’t have at least one? Make an alternate email address for your blogs, so people can’t find your name on your email or other personal information that could be dangerous for others to know.
Never agree to meet someone you’ve met online alone. Talk to your parents and friends, have someone come with you if you are sure of the person’s true identity and want to meet them face-to-face. If the person insists that you go alone, you should realize that there is obviously something that they’re hiding. Never put your full trust in someone you’ve never met in real life. No one is what he or she seems on the Internet.

When uploading images that will be viewed by the public of cyber space, make sure there isn’t anything in the photo that could give away your location. If you happen to be in a school uniform, blur out the school crest. Blur out signposts…. Just small simple things that could tell someone your location.

Parents, who have teens or children using blogs, make regular checks to monitor what they are putting on the Internet. They may resent you for invading their privacy, but in the end it will be safer. Make sure that your kids know that they can come to you to talk about things that have happened online, and don’t alienate them.

Simple things that most disregard are what will keep you safe.