Social networking allows people to communicate and connect through online communities. However, it also presents some pitfalls like lack of anonymity, wasting time, and risks of scams or harassment. Therefore, it is important to use privacy settings to control what information is visible to others and limit it to just friends. Settings should be checked regularly to ensure privacy and safety on social networks.

1. Cyber Safety: In the Era Of Social Networking

2. What Is Social Networking? “Social Networking is the way the 21st century communicates today” The video to support this slide follows

3. User based Interactive Community driven Relationships Emotional Content Characteristics Of Social Networks

4. Lack Of Anonymity Time consuming Scams and Harassment Pitfalls Of Social Networking The video to support this slide follows

5. Importance of Privacy Settings The following video demonstrates the importance of privacy settings in any social networking site.

6. Next few slides will demonstrate how to set up privacy in face book which is a social networking site. These privacy settings are applicable to other networking sites such as Orkut, Twitter, Flickr etc. with minute

7. Click on “Account” Then on “Privacy Settings”

8. Use these options to control the information people see about you!

9. “Only friends” is the BEST option to limit who sees your info

10. Check to see what your friends can see about you. If you don’t like what they are able to see, change it!

11. You can choose what can be seen about you through the sites applications! Choose your games and applications wisely!

12. This is the most secure setting for applications (uncheck all)

13. References Cyber Safety: http://www.cyber-safety.com/teens.html Netsmartz workshop: http://www.netsmartz.org/ ACMA: Cyber Smart http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/ Definition of Social Networking from http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com