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Look at the following quote. List the Dos and Don'ts as a Netizen.

“Take responsibility for the decisions you make and the actions you take”
-Billy Cox-

Read the following article from a social media webzine.

Webzine

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Social networking has taken the world by storm. Social media applications like Whatsapp, Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have sprouted like mushrooms on the Internet. Other social media
applications may appear in the blink of an eye.
Online Friends Online Security
You must make sure your social While communicating online, take care
networking is restricted to your friends of your online security. You can use your
and people you know. Do not simply privacy settings to control who sees what
befriend everyone on the Internet as he you post. Do not share your passwords and
or she may take advantage of you. Do personal information with anyone. Do not
not meet an online friend in person share a photo of your house, your parents
unless you trust him or her. If anybody or the car they drive. Criminals can take
online threatens you or says something advantage of your innocent sharing of
that scares you, inform your parents or pictures.
an adult immediately.
Think before You Click
Online Reputation Remember that everything you post
Next, remember that you have to can be permanent. You upload and share
take care of your online reputation. a lot of information online like photos,
People will judge you by looking at videos, emails or messages but do you
the things you post on the Internet. know that these will go into some obscure
Hence, you must be careful about the places in the Internet and can be
things you post on the Internet. Do circulated or retrieved some time in the
not upload suggestive pictures or use future? Someone may print or copy your
inappropriate language. Be thoughtful information and send it around to other
and courteous. What you write online people. There is nothing you can do to
will be there forever, to be read and stop this spreading of information. The
interpreted by everyone. So, do think of information you have deleted could resurface
your digital identity. years later, sometimes with embarrassing
Glossary consequences. Thus, you have to think
before you click the ‘send’ or 'post' button.
netizen a user of the Internet, especially
a habitual or avid one Whatever communication platform you choose, think
Webzine a magazine published on the about the footprints you are leaving on the network.
Internet Share e
in the blink Adapted from: www.internetsociety.org/your-digital-footprint-matters
of an eye extremely quickly

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