Thursday, March 27, 2008

1. Look for privacy policies on the Web
2. Get a separate email account for personal email
3. Teach your kids that giving out personal information online means giving it to strangers
4. Clear your memory cache after browsing
5. Make sure that online forms are secure
6. Reject unnecessary cookies
7. Use anonymous remailers
8. Encrypt your email
9. Use anonymizers while browsing
10. Opt-out of third party information sharing
Extra! Use common sense!
There are a number of photo sharing websites which allow people to share photos of themselves, cars, trees, boats, dogs and leprachauns to each other. You can post photos privatly or publicly and can be individual or slide shows, aloowing others to share the joy in your photo.
Social networking is a phenomena defined by linking people to each other in some way. Digg is a popular example of a social network
Web 2.0 is a perceived or proposed second generation of the web. This is were the web has evolved and improved over time and now offers better and more up to date services like blogs, wiki’s, social networking sites etc
A Blog Is A frequently updated journal or diary usually, often hosted by a third party.