Question

1. What are the safety threats and challenges we are facing while dealing with people online? What are their implications in our lives? Please explain with short examples.

Answer 1

Safety Threats and Challenges while dealing with people online:
1. Identification
* Identification denotes the threat of associating an identifier (persistent).
* The tendency to share information about ourselves is explosive and affects almost everyone today.
* Young people are the most likely to share data with others. 61% of those aged 16-24 and 64% of those aged 25- 34 share private and sensitive photos of themselves with other people.

2.Location and monitoring
* Location and tracking is the threat of determining and recording the location of a person through time and space. Tracking requires identification of some kind to link continuous locations to an individual. Already today
* Already today, monitoring is possible through different means, eg. GPS, internet traffic or cell phone location.

3. Phishing scams
* Phishing scams involve emails that falsely claim to be from an established legitimate business or organization, but are designed to steal your identity. These emails ask the recipient to send their
* private information, such as passwords, bank account numbers, health insurance registration numbers and credit card details, by email or re-directing the recipient to a website where they are tricked into providing this information.

4. Publication of private information
Children still don't understand social limits. They can post personally identifiable information (PII) online, for example on their social media profiles, which should not be in public. This can be anything from images of awkward personal moments to your home addresses or family vacation plans.

5. Falling for scams
Young or old, the best protection against scams is knowing that if an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is a scam.

6. Cyberbullying
Just as predators no longer have to leave their homes to interact with children, aggressors no longer have to come face to face with their victims. Unfortunately, cyberbullying through social networking sites is prevalent in today's world and causes as much harm as any other form of bullying.

What are their implications in our lives?
Social media benefits teenagers by expanding their social networks and keeping in touch with their peers, distant friends, and family members. It's also a creative exit. In the Common Sense Media report, more than a quarter of teens said that “social media is extremely important for them to express themselves creatively.

But there are also risks. The Common Sense Media survey found that 13 percent of teenagers said they had been bullied online at least once. And social media can be a way to access inappropriate content like violent images or pornography. Almost two-thirds of teenagers who use social media said they encountered hateful racist, sexist, homophobic, or religious content frequently on social media.

In particular, exploring one's identity appears to be a crucial use of visually focused social networking sites for teens. Be it on Facebook, be it on Instagram, there is a lot of strategic self-presentation and it seems to be at the service of identity.

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