Online safety tips
What is Instagram?
Instagram is a Social Media to share photos or videos with your friends, family or anyone. You can also follow people that are not your friends for example famous accounts.
But it is very important the security in this social media because then anyone can see your posts and information.Your Instagram account has an username and a password, you have to put a phone number or an e-mail and you can make your account private, also only your followers can see whatever you share. The most important thing is to don't accept people that you don't know. In each photo or video, your followers can like it, comment it and share it with other people that follows you. Instagram has "direct" where you can chat with your followers and send post from other people.
Real Story:
This story is about a friend. She has a private instagram account, but before, even if she had it privately, she accepted people she did not know.
One day one of these people started talking to her. She also spoke to him, but after a while the friends found out and told her it was dangerous, to be careful and to tell his parents. She realized that the friends were right, so she told her parents and they blocked her. From now on this girl does not accept people she does not know for her own safety.
Tips for an Instagram account:
- when you create your account don't put your cell phone number
- You have to put a secure email
Tips for your email:
- Do not use “Remember Me” on public computers/devices
- Use an unique password
- Enable the 2-step security feature on your email account
to secure your account your password must be large, with numbers, capital letters and if you can symbols
Tips for posts:
- in your post or video, don't put your location for your own security
Additional tips:
- Remember to log out after using devices that you share
- Don’t share your password with someone who you don’t know and trust
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