如果计算机未连接到Internet，则许多人认为它不可用。最初作为一个小型网络协议的东西已经让每个人都沉迷于互联网(Internet)。随着社交网站的增加，越来越多的人找到了保持在线状态的方法，分享他们所做的或想到的任何事情。这种倾向有坏眼睛在网上(Internet)窥探和扫描线索，这可能有助于诸如名誉受损、身份盗窃甚至金钱损失等犯罪。
这篇文章提供了一些在线安全提示，尤其适用于儿童、学生和青少年(online safety tips, especially for kids, students, and teens)，任何人都可以使用它来查看他或她在使用互联网(Internet)时是否受到负面影响。
(Online Safety Tips)儿童(Kids)、学生(Students)和青少年(Teens)的在线安全提示
一项研究表明，年轻人更容易遭受身份(Identity)盗窃。这可能是因为他们比成年人更沉迷于社交网站和论坛，也可能是因为他们拥有可以轻松利用的新信用额度。
儿童和青少年通常会发布他们想到的所有内容并留下数字足迹(Digital Footprints)。社交(Social)网站使分享变得更容易，实际上诱使人们分享一切，包括不惜一切代价应该保密的东西。诸如“我一个人在家”之类的帖子，或者说“我有一辆新车”的驾驶执照图片听起来很无辜。他们可能看起来很无辜，但在社交媒体上过度分享是有危险的(dangers of over-sharing on social media)，他们也可能招来麻烦。
在向社交网站和公共论坛分享任何内容之前，看看您是否愿意在现实生活中与他人分享该内容。多想一想——关于这篇文章可能产生的副作用。如果您发布您的驾照图片，您是否希望任何人都可以阅读它？例如，您会向生活中的陌生人展示您的驾照吗？如果没有，你为什么要在Facebook 上(Facebook)与完全陌生的人分享它？当然，您希望给您的朋友留下深刻印象，但是还有其他人在等待此类信息，以便他们滥用它。
阅读(Read)：如何让您的 PC 为在线教育和课程做好准备(How to get your PC ready for online schooling and classes)。
身份盗窃
以驾照为例，只要掌握了足够的信息，人们就可以利用自己的技术制作出一份完美的驾照副本。这只是一个较小的例子。根据您在其他一些时间点与他人分享的地址和社会安全号码，事情可以发展到人们以您的名义贷款。
对于儿童、青少年甚至成年人来说，在线安全的第一个也是重要的提示是在分享任何内容之前花一点时间，并用它来反映他们是否愿意在现实生活中与陌生人分享它。如果不是，为什么要把它贴在互联网(Internet)上，让超过 10 亿的陌生人看到它。您不希望发生任何级别的身份盗窃！(Identity Theft)
某些社交网站（例如Facebook和Google Plus）允许您自定义帖子对其他人的可见性。例如，如果您将帖子隐私从Public更改为Friends，则您的帖子仅对您的Facebook 朋友(friends)可用。了解社交网站和公共论坛，查看是否存在此类设施并加以利用，以免陌生人看到您的信息。
阅读(Read)：什么是网络欺凌。(What is Cyberbullying.)
在线声誉
第二个提示是关于维护您的在线声誉。使用您的姓名及其变体运行Internet 搜索，以查看在搜索引擎结果页面中可见的所有内容。(Internet Search)你不应该在互联网上(Internet)发布关于你的老师或老板甚至同事的冒犯性内容。要知道(Know)，当你申请工作或接受高等教育时，关于你的老师、老板、同事或任何人的无辜笑话可能会再次影响你的声誉。
就工作而言，招聘经理一定会在互联网上(Internet)进行搜索，以查看他们可以收集到的关于您的所有信息。如果它显示出任何奇怪的东西，你的机会就会变得渺茫。为避免此类情况，请尽量不要在Internet上发布任何类型的攻击性材料。在某些情况下，此类令人反感的材料也可能会让警察敲你的门。在其他人看到该材料之前，请通过手动删除或要求网站管理员将其删除（如果您无法自行删除）将其删除。了解(Learn)有关在线声誉管理(Online Reputation Management)的更多信息。
您的浏览有多安全
您不希望将您的登录凭据和银行信息泄露给您不认识的人。如果您要进行交易，请确保站点的地址以“ https ”开头，而不仅仅是“HTTP”。除了锁定图标之外，您应该在地址栏中的所有浏览器（IE 除外）上看到绿色的小描述 - 向左。切勿(Never)在 URL 中未显示“https”的站点中输入您的登录信息，尤其是卡等信息。
切勿单击电子邮件中的链接，因为它们可能会将您引导至看起来像原始网站的虚假克隆网站。相反，每次您希望访问这些网站时，请在地址栏中输入网站地址。您可以手动为它们添加书签，以便将来使用它们而不是输入地址。永远不要点击电子邮件中的链接，即使它看起来是合法的。
可能有一些例外情况，例如验证电子邮件，是由您刚刚要求更改密码的网站发送的，或者您只是在某个网站上注册的。在大多数情况下，此类电子邮件会在采取某些操作（例如请求更改密码或您在某些网站上注册）后几秒钟内收到。在这种情况下，您必须使用您的常识。
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概括(Summary)
这些是儿童和青少年在线安全的基本提示：
- 永远不要分享任何（在互联网上(Internet)）你不想在现实生活中分享的东西
- 切勿发布任何可能被您的学校、学院、警察、雇主等用来攻击您的冒犯性内容。
- 不时(Run)使用您的姓名进行搜索，查看可用信息；如果您看到任何不良信息，您应该自行删除或联系网站管理员
- 使用 https 网站确保您的浏览安全；甚至Twitter和Facebook也总是有“https”，这样您的登录信息就很安全
- 切勿单击电子邮件中提供的链接以访问站点；始终键入网站URL或使用您保存的书签；可能会有一些例外情况，例如用于验证的电子邮件；用你的辨别力来分辨好坏
- 确保(Make)您遵循此Internet 安全文章(Internet Security article)中的提示。
我们希望这会有所帮助。
Online Safety Tips for Kids, Students and Teens
If a computer is not connected to the Internet, it is not considered usаble by many. What started as a small networking protocol hаs got everyone addicted to the Internet. Wіth the increаse in social networking sites, more and more people have found out ways to stay online, sharing anything and everything that they do or that comes to their minds. Thiѕ tendency has bad еyes prying and scanning the Internet for clues, which might hеlp in crimes such as reputation damagе, identity theft, and еven monetary loss.
This post offers some online safety tips, especially for kids, students, and teens, and can be used by anyone to see that he or she is not negatively affected while using the Internet.
Online Safety Tips for Kids, Students and Teens
A study shows that young people are more vulnerable to Identity thefts. It may be because they are more addicted to social networking sites and forums more than grown-up people and also because they have a fresh line of credit that can be exploited easily.
Kids and teens are often the ones posting everything that comes to their minds and leave Digital Footprints around. Social networking sites make sharing easier and practically lure people into sharing everything, including things that should be private at any cost. Posts such as “I am alone at home”, or an image of driver’s license saying “I got a new car” sound innocent. They may seem innocent, but there are dangers of over-sharing on social media, and they could invite trouble as well.
Before sharing anything to the social networking sites and public forums, see if you would feel like sharing that thing with others in real life. Think a little more – about the possible side effects of the post. If you post your driver’s license image, would you want just about anyone to read it? Will you show your driver’s license, for example, to strangers in life? If not, why are you sharing it with absolute strangers on Facebook? Of course, you wish to impress your friends, but there are others waiting for such information so that they can misuse it.
Read: How to get your PC ready for online schooling and classes.
Identity Theft
Taking the driver’s license as an example, people can create a perfect copy of it using their own techniques once they have ample information. This is just a smaller example. Things can go as far as people taking loans in your name, based on your address and social security number as you shared them with others at some of the other points of time.
The first and important tip for online safety for kids, teens, and even grown-up people is to take a moment before sharing anything and use it to reflect if they would be comfortable sharing it with strangers in real life. If not, why post it on the Internet where more than a billion strangers would see it. You do not want Identity Theft of any level to occur!
Some social networking sites such as Facebook and Google Plus let you customize the visibility of posts to others. For example, if you change the post privacy from Public to Friends, your post is available only to your Facebook friends. Understand the social networking sites and public forums to see if such facilities exist and make use of them so that unknown people do not get to see your information.
Read: What is Cyberbullying.
Online Reputation
The second tip is about maintaining your reputation online. Run an Internet Search with your name and its variations to see what all is visible in the search engine result pages. You should not post offending things about your teacher or boss or even a colleague over the Internet. Know that an innocent joke about your teacher, boss, colleague or anyone can come back to haunt your reputation when you apply for jobs or higher education.
In the case of jobs, hiring managers are sure to run an Internet search to see what all information they can gather about you. If it shows anything weird, your chances become slimmer. To avoid such situations, try and don’t post any kind of offensive material on the Internet. In some cases, such offensive material may also have cops knocking at your door. Before anyone else sees the material, get it removed by either manually deleting it or asking the website administrator to remove it if you can’t do it on your own. Learn more about Online Reputation Management.
How secure is your Browsing
You would not want to give up your login credentials and bank information to people whom you do not know. If you are making a transaction, make sure the address of the site starts with “https” instead of just “HTTP“. Besides a lock icon, you should see a little description in green color on all browsers (except IE) in the address bar – towards the left. Never enter your login information and especially card etc. information in sites that do not show “https” in their URL.
Never click links in the email as they may lead you to fake, cloned sites that look like the original website. Instead, type the website address in the address bar each time you wish to access those websites. You can bookmark them manually so that you can use them instead of typing the address in the future. Never ever click a link in the email even though it appears legitimate.
There can be some exceptions, such as verification emails, sent by sites where you just asked for a password change or if you just signed up with some site. In most cases, such emails are received within seconds of taking some action such as requesting a password change or if you signed up with some website. You have to use your common sense in such cases.
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Summary
These are the basic tips for online safety for kids and teens:
- Never share anything (on the Internet) what you would not want to share in real life
- Never post anything offensive that may be used against you by your school, college, police, employers, etc.
- Run searches using your name from time to time and see what information is available; if you see any bad information, you should remove it either by yourself or by contacting the site admin
- Keep your browsing secure by using https sites; even Twitter and Facebook always have “https” so that your login information is safe
- Never click links provided in the emails to reach a site; always type the website URL or use the bookmark you saved; there can be some exceptions such as emails for verification; use your discrimination to figure out good from bad
- Make sure you follow the tips in this Internet Security article.
We hope this helps.
