Protecting Yourself Online
By kay lar
@jaylar (679)
Kingston, Jamaica
October 13, 2024 1:21pm CST
When you join a social network use a new email account that doesn't link to you.
Use a nick name which is rather asexual.
Post nothing that links to you. Not your car, your children, your house, anything.
Keep your address a bit fuzzy.
Tell your friends, that is people you have coffee with, your Nick. Everyone else is kept at arm's length.
In this way you can't be a target.
Sexy Russian Girls send images to a 76 year old woman.
You Won! is deleted because the Nick never entered anything but that network.
Since no one on that site knows your age, sex, race, religion, scammers flop, haters flop and you have blocked more people than you've friended.
You know all those 'your package has arrived' your 'bank account is frozen', and other garbage is garbage.
For beyond that email and that Nick, you don't exist.
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@RasmaSandra (79833)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Oct
Being a writer and having been online for over ten years a good deal of my info is already here and there online, I have luckily had no problems,
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@kaylachan (69652)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Oct
While all those tips do work in theroy, they don't exactly protect you. Not really. Yes, you can use a burnner e-mail to recieve varification codes, but you typically need an e-mail that does have personal info attached to it to recieve that e-mail. The biggest thing to take away, no matter what you do, understand anything you say can and is public and can be traced.
No matter who you are, if you are going to have a social presance, you can be tracked. People are animals, if someone gets upset at you, they can hurt you.
The best protection you have, is understanding that nothing is truely private. And, the places that you do order from, collect data, too and when you sign up to any site, using a nick name or not, you are telling them they have permission to do whatever they want. When you agree to a site's tearms of service. Because who actually takes the time to read those things? Who, other then a lawyer understands them?
No one online knows my real name. Not even people who've Ive known in real life. Those people who do know my name, are people who are the handful that have my actual number.
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