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 * 4. Cultural Awareness **


 * A2: Privacy **

Do not give social networking sites:
 * ** Access to your email account. ** During the registration process, social networks often solicit a new user to provide an email address and account password so they can access the user’s email address book. To be safe, don’t provide this information at all. There are some social networks that capture a user’s email contacts and then solicit them – often repeatedly – to join. If you consider providing an email address and account password to a social network, read all agreements (including the [|privacy policy]) very carefully before clicking on them.
 * ** An email address associated with your professional life. ** Never provide a work-associated email to a social network, especially when signing up. Consider creating a new email address strictly to connect with your social networking profile(s). [|Jobseekers]should take special care to keep professional and personal lives separate.
 * ** Your exact date of birth, especially in combination with your place of birth. **Your exact date of birth may be useful to an identity thief. A 2009 study published by researchers at Carnegie Mellon showed that a date and place of birth could be used to predict most, and sometimes all, of the nine digits of one’s Social Security number. If you do decide to post your birthday, use privacy settings to restrict the visibility of this information and don’t provide the year.
 * ** Your browsing history. ** Delete cookies, including flash cookies, every time you leave a social networking site. Also consider using a proxy server to mask your IP address, such as Tor. See [|PRC Fact Sheet 18: Privacy and the Internet]
 * ** Vacation Plans. ** Don’t publicize vacation plans, especially the dates you’ll be traveling. Remember, no matter how carefully you construct your privacy settings, there’s no guarantee that what you post won’t become known to unauthorized viewers.
 * **Public posts with your address, phone number or email address**. Don’t post your address, phone number or email address on a social network profile or status update. Scam artists as well as marketing companies may be looking for this kind of information. If you do choose to post any portion of this, use privacy settings to restrict it to approved contacts. Be especially wary of providing a GPS location of your home . If you use a location-aware social network, use extra caution! Don’t publicize the location of your home because people will know when you are not there. (See Please Rob Me - Raising Awareness about Oversharing)
 * ** Compromising, sensitive, embarrassing or inflammatory pictures or posts. ** Remember that whatever goes on a network might eventually be seen by people not in the intended audience. Think about whether you would want a stranger, an insurance agent, the government, your mother or a potential boss to see certain information or pictures. Don’t be afraid to ask to have content removed. Read more about what information is public on social networks.
 * ** Money. **Be wary of requests for money, even if they are from contacts you know and trust. If a contact’s account is compromised, a scam artist may use his or her name and account to attempt to defraud others through bogus money requests.

http://www.privacyrights.org/8-social-networking-privacy-tips **Top 8 Things You Shouldn't Give Social Networking Sites** **Privacy Rights Clearing House**

These are some of the things you should never give, do, or post to social networking sites (Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc.)

1. Access to your email account: Sometimes when you are in the registration for social networking sites, they ask for access to your email. You should never let them because some of them send emails to everyone in your contacts to get them to join the site.

2. Your browsing history: Delete your cookies, including flash cookies, every time you log out or leave a social networking site.

3. Vacation Plans: Don’t tell the world your vacation plans, especially the exact date or dates. It can be seen to people that aren’t even your friends, even with the best privacy settings.

4. Money: Be careful giving money to social networking sites even if it’s someone you know, sometimes people may use their account to try to get money from you.

5. Never add someone you don’t know: You never know who can be behind that computer screen, only add people you know from school or in person.

6. How much you hate your teacher or boss: Sometimes it can get you suspended or fired. Also, when you apply for jobs or schools they are starting to look at your Facebook.

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