Thread: Is social media an open door for predators??!

Originally Posted by Shivani

Parijat! You are right, school students should be council led and taught both theoretically and practically about these Fake ID problems. But I think that creating only awareness wouldn't really make a change. While counselling some would not even pay attention to it I have seen it in my own school. SELF DISCIPLINE?? Yes right point, if we start thinking about our own self respect and safety we would never fall into these temptations BUT it is our age (hormones) which tempts us unconsciously to fall into trouble I guess. So according to me it is us who have to be aware of such things and mostly our parents way of raising us!! They should raise us by sharing incidents that happened before because of social media from our childhood on wards however once we grow up nothing can stop as from falling into trouble EXCEPT OUR OWN MIND!

Agree, If we do awareness seminar and long lectures for school students they will get bored. We have to do it in a interesting and motivational way. Yeah our age( hormones) is the problem that's why i said we should follow our self discipline and being self controlled. I accept that our parents should raise us, To face the daily challenges in our society.

Originally Posted by Bhavya

Agree, If we do awareness seminar and long lectures for school students they will get bored. We have to do it in a interesting and motivational way. Yeah our age( hormones) is the problem that's why i said we should follow our self discipline and being self controlled. I accept that our parents should raise us, To face the daily challenges in our society.

Maintaining a self discipline at only a certain period of time won't really bring a change. Don't you think so?

Originally Posted by MDilbara

Okay. I just want to add few point which may help anyone being protective. I'll break it to TWO parts as Stalkers & Hackers.

To be protective from Hackers, you may do the following:

• Fist ever thing to do is enabling "Login Notification", which will let you know if someone else logged in (via Hacking)
• As we do in Emails, check you activities, locations, devices, you logged-in. You can find any delicious activities there
• Make sure to enable Login Approvals or Two-Factor Authentication
• ​Don't use the same password everywhere on the web, done Tick the Remember Password option or Keep me logged-in option. And DO use a Password Manager
• Keep your browser updated, and enable Secure Browsing
• Dont ever click on untrusted URLs, see this post if need more information
• Finally, Make sure you Log Out when you don't use the application

To be protective from Stalkers, you may do the following:

• First ever thing you could do is blocking stalkers without seeing you in Facebook. This can be done through Privacy settings of Facebook.
• If you know a particular starker, block them through the Profile and Report them
• Stop allowing people to search your name in FB, which may make the starkers search your profile. Again it's possible thorough Privacy Settings
• Don't make every information public, which may give them clues about you and aid them in getting you
• Don't allow friend requests from everyone, but restrict them
• MORE THAN EVERY THING, use your HEAD, and be proactive, and be preventive.

If you need more details, visit the following URL : Facebook Privacy Basics

These were really helpful , is hacking considered to be a capital punishment?