Using the Internet Safely For Seniors

➟ Help kids evaluate the questions that services ask in the

registration process. There’s a clear difference between

required information and optional. (See Figure 11-4.)

The rule of thumb is to enter as little as possible. If,

over time, they want to add more, the can do so, but

taking information back is far more difficult.

➟ Sites often encourage sharing more information than

is required, and they typically position doing so as a

way to be more popular, a ploy children and teens fall

for more often than adults. Sometimes this informa-

tion provides them with a more customized experi-

ence. Sometimes they simply want it for marketing

purposes, or to sell.

Figure 11-3

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