How to be social, but not give away the farm

1. Molly Immendorf CE Technology Services Protecting Your Privacy Online How to be social, but not give away the farm

2. Caveat • Do as I say, not as I do

3. Practical Tips: Online • Passwords • Lie • Secure connection (SSL) • Vanity search • Junk Account • Terms of Service • Billboards/T-Shirt

4. Passwords • Don’t use your banking password for anything else • Use strong passwords (min 8 characters, alpha-numeric, mixed case) • Consider using a password keeper (i.e., LastPass)

5. Junk Account • Create a free email account for online registrations

6. Lie • Don’t use your correct birth date • Make up your mother’s maiden name, elementary school name, favorite pet name, etc. • "123 No Such Street, Nowhere, WI 01010"

7. Secure Connections • When filling out sensitive data on surveys, make sure that it is a secure connection (SSL) • Https://

8. Vanity Search • Put your name in quotes in the search engine.

9. Public records and Internet pages http://123people.com

10. Public records and Internet pages http://spokeo.com

11. Terms of Service

12. Billboards and T-Shirts • Activity: Take a post-it or piece of paper and write on it the funniest thing that ever happened to you… last week, last month, last year or in your lifetime. • Wait for instructions…

14. Practical Tips: Social Networking • Work account • Vacation status • Friend Lists • Micro-manage • Facebook Secure Browsing • Tagging photos • Kids’ names and info • Apps

15. Work Accounts • Create separate work and personal accounts Note: Not officially allowed by Facebook’s Terms of Service

16. Friends, Fans and Followers

17. Friends, Fans and Followers • Create Lists of Friends and Pages

18. Friends, Fans and Followers

19. Use Your Lists –Status Updates

20. “Public” means the whole Internet • We Know What You Are Doing (not censored)

21. Micro-manage Your Privacy Settings • Most FB users accept the defaults

22. Customize Settings

23. Privacy details • Use the friends list to personalize your privacy settings

24. Edit all your privacy settings

25. Facebook Apps –most ask for lots of access

26. Facebook Apps –most ask for lots of access

27. AppsAccess Check-Up

28. AppsAccess Check-Up

29. AppsAccess Check-Up

30. Facebook Tags

31. Timeline and Photo Access

32. Facebook Secure Browsing/ HTTPS

33. Facebook Secure Browsing/ HTTPS

34. Kids’ names and information • Photo releases • Avoid identifiable photos (signs) • Don’t tag in Facebook • Use initials for ID

35. Hmm, that’s strange • Weird status messages = potential virus • If it sounds too good to be true…

36. Up-to-the-minute news • Facebook “Find Friends Nearby” • http://www.pcworld.com/article/258268/facebook_find_friends_nearby_brings_privacy_concerns.html • http://lifehacker.com/5921173/remains-of-the-day-facebook-immediately-kills-new-find-friends-nearby-feature • Facebook changes your email to *@facebook.com • http://lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-email-without-permission-heres-how-to-get-it-back

37. Facebook Safety Page http://www.facebook.com/fbsafety

38. Online Privacy Resources • Electronic Frontier Foundation • http://www.eff.org/ • Lifehacker • http://lifehacker.com/ • Federal Trade Commission: • http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/index.html • http://www.onguardonline.gov/ • Snopes Scam Checker • http://snopes.com/

39. Contact information Molly Immendorf Instructional Technology Specialist Cooperative Extension Technology Services molly.immendorf@ces.uwex.edu Facebook: Molly Cargill Immendorf Twitter: Immendorf, CETechServices Slideshare: mimmendorf