online We are NOT always PROTECTED!
@lookatdesktop (27134)
Dallas, Texas
March 21, 2017 12:49pm CST
Your privacy is what really matters.
Many people who use social media enjoy sharing and what they share to friends and followers often times more than you might expect, get shared with people who are NOT YOUR FRIENDS and are NOT MEMBERS OF YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK.
For this reason, the fact that there are people out there who don't care about you. people who are just curious and like to make trouble for you and the platforms that are always at highest risks are the most popular sites online.
You already know them so I don't have to name them here.
But have you ever wondered why so many younger people find the internet so fun and who do not know the risks but seem to be the widest number of internet users on social media today?
Because they can. Children are more curious than adults. Adults are pretty much set in their ways and don't like new things. Normal adults do find themselves victims of online threats and have the common sense, most of the time, not to post pictures of themselves aka 'SELFIES' , and they certainly never post images of their children when the following criteria are not met:
Posting only on private group settings not PUBLIC.
Posting pictures of themselves or their family including children who are underage for social media sites such as Facebook to name the one most popular where children of all ages are subject to predators and exploitation by cyber criminals.
Posting selfies or family pictures online is one of the most dangerous things you can do but to make matters even worse, if those pictures catch the interest of an online predator such as a criminal pedophile, who has just been released on several counts after serving time in a maximum security prison, and he or she takes a fancy to one of the pictures and can see bios information on Facebook or Twitter or MySpace, to name 3 main sites, Instagram is another, or Photo Bucket, to name another. The bios information gives the name of the person who posted an image, even their pet chihuahua 'Buttercup' - their prized pet and the evil doer online, sees your city and state and reads just enough of your bios and stuff that you post online to get some idea where you may live, it's just a matter of when not if, that that predator finds your house, and when you least expect, 'Buttercup' becomes the next missing dog on a list of thousands gone missing, snatched right out of the front or back yard of a local resident.
Pet predators, child predators, even Adult predators, are real and they use the following methods to find out more about you just so they can either steel your identity, kidnap your kids, and your pets, or abduct you and you end up somewhere in a camp where professionals in the black market of human traffic sell you to a killing club where you are auctioned off like some piece of real estate.
I know it all sounds so terrible and so mean but I just felt that I needed to post this today for some reason. If for nothing else than to make people realize that when you do a selfie and post it on Instagram, Facebook or Tumblr, to name 3 major social media and sharing sites today, you should think twice before ever posting images that could be traced back to their original geographical locations just because the thing is, I am looking out for your safety. I want you to have a happy and safe and fun time online, not become a cyber criminal's next victim.
Read the following article below from daily news: "The Dangers of Posting Photos Online" - article:
Stories of people's online photos being used for nefarious purposes are easy to find: A soldier's photo was stolen off MySpace, posted by scam artists under a fake Match.com account and used to con one woman out of thousands of dollars.
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@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
21 Mar 17
I've wondered myself what people post here on myLot. They show photos of all family members, mention their professions, tell the community/the world that they will be away on holiday for so and so many days, what kind of car they drive etc.
Isn't that an invitation for burglars? They can just leave the key to their front door under the doormat for the criminals.
Or for kidnappers or child molesters if they mention what kind of sports their children do and where they perform.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
21 Mar 17
Thank you. for sharing this helpful information for myLot members to read.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
21 Mar 17
@thehousewife You have made a very good point here.
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@AgoriphobicPirate (303)
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22 Mar 17
Have you been on facebook? A few years back I looked up my aunt using a friends account, and from the account of a stranger to her so much information could be found. The front of their house with the numbers clearly visible, which was half block away from a big hospital in Toronto, pictures of her three kids, posts about the schools they were attending, one of which was across the street form the house, and where she worked, all information a stranger could find. And to top it all off, her and other mothers would discuss the kids recreational schedules on peoples facebook walls, so it was far to easy to figure out where each of them would be and when. It's sad when someone in there early 20's points that out to a mother of three, worse when the mother changes a couple of settings and shrugs the rest off. Privacy settings on facebook get reset to their original status every once in a while, sometimes it's only six months between updates that cause the reset that no one cares to know happens.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
22 Mar 17
It's kinda like that commercial about 'safety around power-lines that run up a pole from the ground' where the electricity-professional talks about how--when they were a kid--they & their friends would play around with the power-line like it was a rope tied to a tree, but -how they've had to have hours of safety-training to work with the lines ... how they realize now how lucky they were back then! 
(Same thing now, except 'the live wire' is "the pedophile creep luring children in" 
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(Same thing now, except 'the live wire' is "the pedophile creep luring children in" )2 people like this
@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
10 May 17
Yes so very true. Beware of strangers and hidden dangers. Just keep your children off Facebook until they are mature enough to know better how to use it. The thing is, there are a number of children using Facebook who lie about their age.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
10 May 17
Social media’s millions of “invisible” users may be especially vulnerable to cyberbullying.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
29 Mar 17
I don't agree with my kids posting photos online but they are grown and do what they want to do.
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
31 Mar 17
@lookatdesktop - Yes sir. There are many. Sadly it only takes one really sick predator to make you very unhappy and miserable. I worry for my kids; especially my daughters. My youngest who is not 18 yet, is not allowed to have any social media accounts. I'm sorry. I'm just not letting her put herself out there! I'd rather her call me over-protective, over-bearing, foolish old lady, etc. I don't care if her friends have social accounts! It's too much cyber bullying going on and she's a sweet child. I'm not confident about her survival skills. It's a nasty jungle out there!
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Mar 17
It can be a bit risky to constantly post selfies on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram or any other social site that people go to looking for people to exploit to their own devious ends. Not all is dark but there are just enough predators in the world that take the fun and safe out of social media that makes it hard for simple selfies just for friends to post and families to share simple times of joy and caring.
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@pammooratan (4668)
• India
22 Mar 17
Your research is good about online dangers.I hope this will be a suggestion for every online user.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
23 Mar 17
I just felt it was about time I did a discussion on this to get things moving forward for the better for everyone concerned.
@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
22 Mar 17
Indeed it is. Today's episode of Dr. Phil was one of the most significant story. It was about a child who was abducted at birth and sold into slavery. it was shocking and terrifying to watch. Dr. Phil is one of my favorites. he digs deeper into human situations than most people do on television. I think he is one of the best. His positive actions to help bring normalcy to a world of intense danger and insanity and tries to shed light on the darkness of the human condition we all know today.
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@rusty2rusty (6763)
• Defiance, Ohio
22 Mar 17
That is true. I monitor my teen daughter access to social media because of this.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
22 Mar 17
The sad reality with anything online is these predators don't need your information from a Facebook of Twitter page. They can access your information form the internet period. Did you know that everything we do online stays online forever. Did you also know that the dark web is a place for hackers to get whatever information hey so desire about you or anyone else in this world. They can even disable your vehicle if it is connected to the internet. And if the people on the dark web can do that so can the government. Which they already do. So don't think just because you delete something that it's gone. It is set in stone once it hits the internet.
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@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
13 May 17
@lookatdesktop It is bad. And now that the government wants to start removing things that were in place by the Obama administration, so that the internet providers can now start charging more for the internet we use and also restrict what we can do. And to add insult to injury they want to relax the rules so that the internet providers can sell all our information to make even more money. They want to kill the internet I think.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
10 May 17
That is just about as bad as it gets.
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@psanasangma (7289)
• India
5 Apr 17
Whether it is online or physical site we have to play safely,,, privacy always matters.
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@MissNikki (5237)
• Maple Ridge, British Columbia
30 Mar 17
You have to be so careful on the internet, these days.
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
21 Mar 17
You are right. Everyone needs to realize how important this is for our safety.
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@Bodyandbrain (13797)
• Gurgaon, India
15 Jun 17
Very valuable information, thanks for sharing.
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@AgoriphobicPirate (303)
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22 Mar 17
Online sharing has definitely gotten out of hand. I wont even post a picture of myself as a profile pic (unless at some point I use an artistic one, but it's not a clear as day picture of me), and I ditched my old facebook (got one for swagbucks but only have 2 friends on it), and if I broadcast at some point it will be an intellectual broadcast, or likely when I figure out how to use bluestacks to stream Kahoot. I shared a couple links today, and made a mini-collage to show the artists, but with their permission. I'm not over comfortable with the fact that the one young man uses his name (I assume his real name), but if he sticks with it he"ll have to get used to fame anyways. I completely agree though, it's like everyone has forgotten that predators exist. I suppose that's part of the cycle of life though, things change, people ichange without realizing it, and we can only hope that the intelligent people of this world have more children than the not. (I'm not holding my breath though.)
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
23 Mar 17
Good point but I think that more ignorant people are being born than not so it's the opposite when population keeps going up. More dummies on the top making the world top heavy so to speak. 
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