Here are some precautions you should take while chatting online:
- Use Facebook privacy settings: The Facebook privacy settings allow you to control who gets to see what. You can segregate your friends into acquaintances, friends and family and ensure that everyone doesn't have full access to your profile and only a few (close friends and family) have.
- Don't talk to strangers: Remember what your parents told you when you were a child. Don't talk to strangers. Accept friend requests from known people. If you want to add strangers, ensure you follow rule # 1.
- Watch your status messages: Don't use your Facebook status application to tell the world about your itinerary for the day. You never know who is stalking you in the virtual world.
- Keep changing your password often: Avoid using obvious things like your date of birth, name, boyfriend's name and so on. Your password is like the key of your home, don't share it with anyone. Keep it only to yourself and change it often.
- Impersonation is rampant Beware!: The anonymity provided by the virtual world and fear of being stalked often prompts people to impersonate. A considerable number of Facebook profiles are fakes and people often withhold correct information about themselves or provide wrong ones.
- Do not share personal information: Do not share any personal information on the profile such as email address, mobile phone number, home or school address. When you start chatting with someone you met online, stick to general topics and refrain from talking too much about yourself.
- Do not share pictures: Do not share your pictures in chat rooms as they can be misused. Identity theft is a grave issue and can have dangerous repercussions.
- Avoid using social media from public Wi-Fi: Avoid using social media accounts containing personal information from public Wi-Fi.
- Do not open any email from unknown person: Do not open any links in any email message or facebook messages received from unknown persons.
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