I’ve recently noticed an uptick in hacked email accounts. I’ve received quite a few messages from people I know that are clearly spam. How Can You Tell It’s Spam? I typically notice them when I get an email from an address that I recognize, it typically doesn’t have a subject, and if you look at [...]
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Tag Archive: online safety
How Much Information Are Your Kids Sharing?
Today’s post is a bit of a Public Service Announcement, and it’s important. This week I took the Amtrak train up to New England. When I ride the train, I like to grab a table in the cafe car because I get a table I can spread out and work on. This is also the [...]
Lots of Scams on Facebook Lately – Be Careful!
Have you seen this one lately? What about this one? Or even this one? What do they all have in common? They’re all scams floating around Facebook. This past week there have been a boatload of account hacks. After the spammers get into your account, they proceed to plaster your friends’ walls, inbox, etc with [...]
Are Link Shorteners Safe?
As part of the analytics I track on my blog, I keep an eye on the incoming keywords. These are things people have typed into a search engine which ultimately led them to a page on this website. And recently, I’ve seen the same search several times: “Is ow.ly safe?” Now first, to explain what [...]
5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online
Your personal information may be going further than you think, especially when your social networks change their settings unexpectedly. Here are 5 things those in direct sales and network marketing should consider to protect their privacy online.
What Legacy Are We Leaving Our Children Online?
I feel sorry for a lot of kids these days. As parents, we think nothing of sharing cute stories about and pictures of our kids all over our social networks. But some parents also feel comfortable complaining about their kids…sharing all the things they do that make their parents crazy. These are things that parents [...]
Safety and Facebook Places for Direct Sellers
Last night I updated Facebook on my Android-based mobile phone. Now I have the “Places” app featured prominently on the main screen of the Facebook application. Curious, I clicked it, and began to look at the updates from people on my Friends list. I saw people checking in from home, work, restaurants, etc. For every [...]
9 Things You Should Never Post to Your Social Networks
As we get more and more comfortable with social networking, people tend to share more and more information about themselves. After all, these are your friends, right? You can tell them anything. Um….no. We have to remember that with social networking, things are a lot more public than we realize. And our friends often have [...]
