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According to a?study ?by the Pew Research Center,?most online abuse takes place on social media. Although men are also subject to online harassment – the study found that online,?women are more than twice as likely as men to experience sexual harassment.
vpnMentor recently published a detailed article with valuable tips and guidelines: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/the-empowering-internet-safety-guide-for-women/ We highlight some of the points here:
Harassment on Social Media
The majority of online harassment takes place on social media, which makes sense, given how much time most of us spend on these platforms. Broad social networks, often combined with anonymity, lead to a reality in which anything you post, tweet, or share opens you up to potential abuse.
Due to its public nature,?Twitter is one of the most notorious social media platforms when it comes to online harassment.?
Five Ways to Protect Yourself on Twitter:
1. Use multiple profiles
2. Report and block abusers
3. Don’t geotag?
4. Prevent doxing
5. Prevent hackers from taking over your account
Four Ways to Keep Your Twitter Account from Being Hacked:
1. Create a strong password
2. Enable login verification
3. Be wary of any third-party app that requires access to your account
4. Watch out for shortened URLs
Five Ways to Protect Yourself on Facebook:?
1. Control precisely who sees what
2. Don’t let potential stalkers know where you are
3. Block harassers and put creeps on your restricted list
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4. Report imposter accounts
5. Prevent revenge porn
Instagram and Snapchat
Three Ways to Protect Yourself on Instagram and Snapchat:
1. Check your pictures for identifying data
2. Don’t Use Your Real Information
3. Block Creeps
Four Ways to Protect Yourself on LinkedIn:?
1. Before accepting a LinkedIn connection, check the degrees of separation.?
2. If you receive an unsolicited message, you can decide to block them.
3. You can also block that person from viewing your profile or contacting you.?
4. If you upload your resume, check to ensure your phone number, home address, and other contact information are not listed.
Mobile Phones
What to Do If Your Phone Gets Lost or Stolen:?
For many of us, it’s as if our whole lives are on our phones. Our phones contain our contacts, our photos, and the apps we use to navigate, keep up with the news, organize our work and personal schedules, and stay connected with friends and family; it’s?a lot of personal information we don’t want in the hands of some stranger.
Luckily, you can follow a few straightforward measures to safeguard yourself if your phone is ever misplaced or stolen.
Four Ways to Protect the Contents of Your Phone:?
1. Password Protect Your Phone: To keep someone from immediately gaining access to the contents of your phone once it’s in their possession, it’s best to have a password set already.
2. Locate Your Phone: One of the great things about having a GPS on your phone is that if it goes missing, you can track where it is. However, you must set it up in advance?for this feature to work.
3. Erase Your Data: This is the nuclear option. Suppose you’re sure you’re not getting your phone back. In that case, you can?use the Find My Device/Find My iPhone apps to erase all the data on your phone remotely, so even if the thief manages to break through your password protections, they won’t be able to access your personal information.
4. Change the Passwords for All Your Apps: Make a list of all the apps you have on your phone that require passwords, get onto another device, and start changing your passwords. This will likely include your email, social media accounts, bank accounts, and app stores.