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Staying Safe, Private and Secure Online, While Still Having Fun

Different Ways to Stay Safe Online

By Linda Roeder, About.com

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The Internet can be a perfectly safe place if you follow a few simple rules and use some privacy settings. Whether you're social networking on sites like MySpace and Facebook, writing a blog, creating a personal website or just browsing the Web, you have to be careful. Adding too much personal information to your sites can get you into trouble.

Here are some security settings that can help you make sure MySpace and Facebook are as safe as possible for you and your teens. There are also codes that you can use on your websites to make them safer such as a password codes and a code to keep spammers from getting your email address. Then there are tips that let you know just how much information you can add to your websites, and which information you shouldn't.

Keeping Teens Safe

  • 5 Ways To Keep Teens Safe On Facebook
    5 privacy settings that you can use to keep your teen safe while she browses and plays around on Facebook. There are all kinds of people on Facebook, some that you won't want your teen conversing with. Keep them safe by using these Facebook privacy settings.

  • 6 Ways To Keep Kids Safe on MySpace
    6 privacy settings you can change on MySpace to make sure your teen stays as safe as possible while on MySpace. MySpace makes the news way too often as the place where predators meet up with teens. Keep your teen safe by making sure they use these MySpace privacy settings.

MySpace and Facebook Privacy Settings

  • 22 Ways To Adjust Privacy Settings In Facebook
    Adults need privacy settings too. That's why Facebook has 22 ways that you can adjust the way people contact you or see your Facebook profile. Go through these privacy settings and make some changes to make Facebook work the way you want it to.

  • 6 MySpace Privacy Features
    Change the way people see you on MySpace. Using these privacy settings you can make your MySpace profile a little safer. Change who can see your photos and send you messages, among other things.

Codes For Privacy

  • Hack Your MySpace Profile With These Codes
    Remove whole sections from your MySpace profile. Keep people from seeing your friend list, your age, where you live, and other sections of your MySpace profile.

  • Don't Right Click on My Page
    This code will keep people from being able to right click on your Web page. It's just a simple Javascript and not fool proof, but it may keep most people from stealing your photos.

  • Hiding Your Email Address
    This script will keep the spammers away, and we all want that. It hides your email address from the web page so spammers can't get at it.

  • Password Protect Your Web Pages
    Add a password to your personal Web page. It'll keep most people out of your website so they can't read your private information.

  • Spam Proof Email Link
    Create an email link you can put on your website that still keeps the spammers away.

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