1. Practice selective disclosure of information. Do not try to give all fake information to protect yourself.
2. Do not reveal your gender and age.
3. Never reveal private information to strangers online.
4. Adjust the privacy settings on your social networking account so that strangers won't be able to excess your information.
5. Instead of revealing your real name, set your online name to a nickname so that online strangers won't be able to address you.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Interesting facts of Blogger
1) For Every minute 270,000 words are written on Blogger!!
2) Almost two thirds of Blogger’s traffic comes from outside United States .The 2nd place is occupied by Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.
3) The most popular sport in Blogger is football, which is written four times more than the baseball (2nd popular sport).
4) Blogger will turn 10 years old this August.
5) Blogger which was created by Pyra Labs, was bought by Google in 2003.
2) Almost two thirds of Blogger’s traffic comes from outside United States .The 2nd place is occupied by Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.
3) The most popular sport in Blogger is football, which is written four times more than the baseball (2nd popular sport).
4) Blogger will turn 10 years old this August.
5) Blogger which was created by Pyra Labs, was bought by Google in 2003.
Dangers of Blogger
- As blogger broadcast whatever you’re doing to the whole world, it will disclose whatever you have posted and others will be able to see what you have written. As you start texting all sorts of things to the service, only to later realize that you have shared some personal information that they shouldn’t have.
- If your account is hacked, other people may think you are posting things that you aren’t. All of your followers will see the post, and if there’s a link, others may visit that site, not knowing that it’s not legitimate. Depending on the nature of the post, it could hurt your relationship with anyone who follows you.
- Strangers will be able to track you down based on the information you have posted online.
- The stranger online that contacts with you may look nice and friendly but in fact, he/she may be a bad person with bad motives.
Good use of Blogger
1. Simple & Easy to use.
Blogger is simple & easy to use. You don't have to be a computer geek to understand how to create a blog. They can be reached quickly, & any changes that may have to be done can be done very easily. If you compare this to how difficult it to access a website & change the confusing HTML's entire you can see why blogs have become so popular
2. Modify.
You can change your website quickly without a lot of hassle that a website can give you. You can make changes to your blog in seconds compared to all the hours they can take to update your website. To update on a daily basis, this is a good reason to use a blog vs. a website.
3. Quick Delivery.
The information you post on a blog can be delivered quickly compared to the hours it'd take to use a website. If you follow all directions when you update your blog you'll have the information out to your readers in no time because the search engines pick up the new information quickly. A Web site can take hours or even days for the search engines to your new information update
4. Organization.
When adding new information to your blog, it's less headache involved in the development phase. When you organize your site, it need not be perfect, as the software will get behind you & fix it for you. With a website you need to organize all the different information for yourself & anyone who has developed a website that can be very confusing & time consuming.
5. Communication.
It is easy for your reader to any comments or questions on your blog. These comments are an important way to stay in touch with your business clients, friends, or followers. With a website you'll not have this opportunity
6. Cost Effective.
Most blogs are generally free to the user. The most cost-effective for you is your time. Blogs are a great way for a company to save on advertising costs, because in a blog they can advertise for free. Again with a site they don't have that option
7. The Search Engines.
Search engines love blogs. They are so important rich that crawlers will give them away. With a website, it takes time to create keywords that search engines will love.
Blogger is simple & easy to use. You don't have to be a computer geek to understand how to create a blog. They can be reached quickly, & any changes that may have to be done can be done very easily. If you compare this to how difficult it to access a website & change the confusing HTML's entire you can see why blogs have become so popular
2. Modify.
You can change your website quickly without a lot of hassle that a website can give you. You can make changes to your blog in seconds compared to all the hours they can take to update your website. To update on a daily basis, this is a good reason to use a blog vs. a website.
3. Quick Delivery.
The information you post on a blog can be delivered quickly compared to the hours it'd take to use a website. If you follow all directions when you update your blog you'll have the information out to your readers in no time because the search engines pick up the new information quickly. A Web site can take hours or even days for the search engines to your new information update
4. Organization.
When adding new information to your blog, it's less headache involved in the development phase. When you organize your site, it need not be perfect, as the software will get behind you & fix it for you. With a website you need to organize all the different information for yourself & anyone who has developed a website that can be very confusing & time consuming.
5. Communication.
It is easy for your reader to any comments or questions on your blog. These comments are an important way to stay in touch with your business clients, friends, or followers. With a website you'll not have this opportunity
6. Cost Effective.
Most blogs are generally free to the user. The most cost-effective for you is your time. Blogs are a great way for a company to save on advertising costs, because in a blog they can advertise for free. Again with a site they don't have that option
7. The Search Engines.
Search engines love blogs. They are so important rich that crawlers will give them away. With a website, it takes time to create keywords that search engines will love.
Case of Cyberbullying..
Jodi Plumb, 15, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was horrified to discover an entire blog had been created to insult and threaten her.
The blog contained abuse concerning her weight and even had a date for her "death".
Jodi's mother has called for tougher action by her school against bullies.
The school, Queen Elizabeth School, has defended itself, saying it has a well-defined anti-bullying policy.
Jodi's family says there has been a two-year campaign of intimidation and she has twice been attacked in school.
Jodi found out about the website when a fellow pupil tried to take a photograph of her with a digital camera and said it was for the blog.
She said: "I was really hurt because I did not know who'd done it. I was just really upset."
Jodi's mother, Gail, felt the bullying had disrupted her daughter's education at a crucial time.
Bullying policy
She said: "I want Jodi to be able to go back to her GCSEs without any problems.
"Hopefully, any other children with problems can then come forward to speak because there is no use in suffering in silence."
Mrs Plumb was also concerned how little action the school had taken.
But head teacher Paul O'Brien rejected this, saying the school's anti-bullying efforts had been recognised in a recent Ofsted report.
The blog has now been removed.
-adopted from BBC News
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