➟ If there’s a problem on your blog or on a blog that
includes information about you, report it immedi-
ately. No one has the right to threaten or upset you. If
anyone (even someone you know) behaves threaten-
ingly or asks lots of personal questions, report the
problem. Every service should make it easy to report
abuse; if your blogging service doesn’t, consider
switching providers.➟ Talk to your family about the kinds of information
they’re willing to make public and what they’d rather
keep private. Posting information about others isn’t
okay — in comments, photos, and so on — unless
they agree to share that information. When asking
permission to share, make clear who can see your site.➟ Before changing your settings to be more public, it’s
your obligation to again seek permission from all
people you may expose. If they aren’t comfortable
with additional exposure, remove any content about
them from your site.Sign Up for a Social Networking Service
When signing up for a service, understand what is requiredinformation
and what is optional. You should clearly understand why a Web service
needs any of your personally identifiable information and how they
may use that information — before providing it. Consider carefully the
questions that sites ask users to complete in creating a profile.Accepting a social networking service’s default settings
may expose more information than you intend.Walk through the signup process for Eons, a senior social networking
site, to see the kinds of information they ask for. Follow these instruc-
tions to do so:- Type this URL into your browser address line:
http://www.eons.com.
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