Friday August 23rd

The openness allowed by the online world has brought many benefits to people and society, but it comes with many increased risks as well. When we post information online, we in essence hand out this information to anybody who could wish to access it regardless of their intention. This can lead to dangerous uses of this information, such as hacking or identity theft. For these reasons it's essential to protection oneself on the internet.
I protect myself online by not posting any information that's personal or something I wouldn't want others to know in the first place, and also by using privacy settings on various social media. This is an easy thing to do and can save somebody a lot of future trouble.
My friends and I are all pretty smart about online safety so we haven't had any major incidences. However, I have experienced twitter hacking a couple of times, which isn't especially harmful and can be easily stopped by changing your password but is still a nuisance and implies that more serious infringements on privacy are possible.