Share your information With Care

Share With Care

Your online actions can have real-world consequences. The pictures you post and the words st and the words you write can affect the people in your life. Think before you post and share.

What you post could have a bigger “audience” than you think. Even if you use privacy settings, it’s impossible to completely control who sees your social networking profile, pictures, videos or texts. Before you click “send,” think about how you will feel if your family, teachers, coaches or neighbors find it.

Once you post information online, you can’t take it back. You may think that you’ve deleted information from a site—or that you will delete it later. Know that older versions may exist on other people’s computers. That means your posts could live somewhere permanently.

Get someone’s okay before you share photos or videos they’re in. Online photo albums are great for storing and sharing pictures of special events, and camera phones make it easy to capture every moment. Stop and think about your own privacy—and other people’s—before you share photos and videos online. It can be embarrassing, unfair and even unsafe to send or post photos and videos without getting permission from the people in them.

Sexting

You may have heard stories at school or in the news about people “sexting”—sending nude photos from mobile phones. Don’t do it. Period. People who create, forward or even save sexually explicit photos, videos or messages put their friendships and reputations at risk. Worse yet, they could be breaking the law.