Are You Cyber Savvy

[Jessie Wallace]

Well are you?

Thanks to the internet, your blind date can find out your most intimate secrets before you've even met. Worried?
You should be................


1 Google your name and e-mail address to see what information is out there about you.

2 If you don't like what you find or feel it is inaccurate, contact the page webmaster to have it removed.

3 If you have your own website, rather than registering it to your own home address, register it to a company address or through an intermediary.

4 Set up a free e-mail address that uses a nickname when signing up for newsletters or posting on forums.

5 If you register on a dating site, don't use your real name or post information that could identify you.

6 Avoid posting your mobile, home phone number or address online - use a free e-mail address.

7 If you set up a MySpace page in your own name, make sure you're happy for dates, employers, your parents or even the police to see it.

8 If you wouldn't be happy for your opinion or photo to be on a billboard at the end of your road, think twice about whether you should be putting it on the internet.

9 If your anonymous blog suddenly becomes of national interest, a newspaper will discover who you are.

10 Avoid giving out personal information wherever possible.

[Abi]

Good tips you've got there. If you've got a myspace, make sure its set to private as well. Because then, the people you want to see it, can. And you wouldn't worry about the others anyway. I've got a MySpace, which is private, and i have only given the address to people who i know. I just think its much safer.

After all, i dont want strangers looking at my pictures, and seeing who all my mates are, and what college i go to :ninja:

I just googled my email address, and go just 1 site, that was full of about 10,000 email addresses. I'm guessing that is the "hit list" for spam or something, cause i get a ton of it :rotfl:

Great tips, Dawn. Cause afterall, we're all strangers on the net, so dont put private information up, which you will regret in the future :)

[Abi]

I'm going to move this into the General Discussion Forum, as it has tips which i think everyone can benefit from :)

[Jojo]

I've just tried searching for all of my email addys and not one came up!

[CrazyLea]

Yes I agree good tips. *Changes everything* :p
I typed in my full name (First and second) on google, and my Bebo arrived, and underneath that Deb's bebo.. so it's not just my information I'm giving out, it's kind of others too. :ninja:

Oh yeah, but from what Ems said.. I typed in all mine and nothing came up either :)

[Jojo]

The only thing with my name is that there is a journalist with the same name, aswell as many other people too - I must be common :rotfl:

[Jessie Wallace]

There are loads of people with my name, but with my e-mail address one came up, and that was for an old EE site the Bry set up!!

[Jojo]

None of my email addys, nor my name (even with my middle name inserted), nor with my place of birth, nor with my current (very small) town name in there either..

[DaVeyWaVey]

I typed in my name and email address, and nothing came up. Some good tips though.

[Abi]

If i google my name, loads of Church websites come up :rotfl: If i google it with my town name, then loads of random articles come up that have nothing to do with me. So i guess i'm safe, lol!

[samantha nixon]

i googled my email addresses and nothing came up and i googled my full name and nothing came of from my myspace or anything but someone else on bebo has exactly the same name as me as that came up

[Siobhan]

I've just tried searching for all of my email addys and not one came up!

same here Em.. and for my name.. I am an actress so I dont' mind that been on the web :rotfl::rotfl:

[Luna]

Good tips here - Typed in all my info and nothing came up which is good

The only thing that cam up with me name was a hair removal clinic in america :confused: so nothing to do with me :lol:

[Katy]

yeah really good tips there, i typed mine in and again nothing came up. so i must be doing things right.

[Abigail]

My school has put my name, along with others, on their website stating my exam results from the summer without asking me. I found it a few months ago but reading this, it's rather worrying that somebody coud find out what school/6th form I went/go to and my name.

Nothing for my email addresses although somebody with the same full name as me has set up a website with the url as the name.

[Tori]

well i found the local paper has printed my name, school and gcse results on the internet, and seeing as my name isn't that common i'm slightly worried.

lots of things related to one of my names though!!

although my myspace is private, and i only add people i know generally, i may tink twice... but there's nothing dodgy on there- i consider if my parents found out...

[Kim]

I just googled my name and it came up with the picture of a topless woman, along with links to some site of some woman with the same middle initial as me, plus some athlete. Email address came up with nothing

[di marco]

none of my email addresses came up with anything, but one site came up with my name cos of netball but it was all good stuff written about me