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The Dangers of Sharing Your Information Online

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The internet is a wonderful and a weird place. We get people from all over the world, suddenly able to communicate with each other with just a few clicks.

Social media, chat sites, online forums, any platform that provides instant message and communication, brings us all together. And although it may sound fantastic and idyllic, it can also be dangerous if we are not careful about how we use it.

It's a great way to meet strangers, that suddenly turn into friends, people you tend to talk to on a daily basis. Things online happen in such a rush that a process that usually takes weeks and months, takes only a few hours to maximum a few days. The fact we encounter people who share the same thoughts and opinions and insterests, when in real life we're often surrounded by distance, coldness and indifference, it's refreshing to find a place and someone who you can relax and have a carefree conversation. So we jump in, but many bad consequences can come out of it.

We meet people but do we really know them? Do we really know them to the point of actually trusting them with our private information? We dare not to think that the person we're talking to could possibly be trying to lure us into a trap, or that we're being cstfished.

Now let's picture this, you're walking down the street on a pretty sunny day, when suddenly you see this beautiful looking person! "Wow, I must know who that is!" Then you go and walk up to that person and in less than 30 minutes you told her your name, your birthday, where you live, where you work, your salary, shared your phone number, and gave your picture so that person can always remember you. You then leave, happy and joyful, thinking you met the love of your life... A few days later, you try to login to your social media account and you can't, the password is wrong and everyone in your family is asking why are being so awful to them and insulting them. You get a notification from the bank that your account experienced strange deposits and withdrawals. A friend tells you they found your pic in a suspicious site. Then you ask yourself "How did that happen? How on earth someone could do that?" then you remember about that person, and that you shared all your info with him/her.

It was a 30 minute meeting followed by a short conversation and a long exchange of information. Would you in real life confide your most precious info to a total stranger? I am guessing your answer is no. Replacing the scenario with a chat room instead of a random street, the story looks more fitting. That's the usual amount of time it takes for a person share almost her entire life with someone he/she has never met before.

Sometimes one moment of reckless fun can cause a permanent damage. One picture you send with your face on it, to someone who you don't know will treat it privately can be shared within seconds for a thousand times. A phone number you share can also be easily shared, just like sharing your social media that often contains your full name and such, can lead to more and more information about you. With just a few clicks fake profiles under your name can be created, videos of you can be posted on porn sites and a lot of other things can happen. Information is power, and people who get online with the intention of finding people to steal their information will go to the lengths of blackmailing just so they can get what they want. They target mostly inexperienced male and female internet users. It's hard to spot them because they will type exactly what you want to read and you tend to trust them right away.

But keep this in mind: would you share your life with someone you just met at a grocery store? Would you tell that person everything there's to know about you after a 30 minutes conversation? If again you're saying no as you read it then treat your online life as you'd treat it in real. Not everyone is going to be kind and trustworthy, some will do terrible things and put you through misery because that's what they do.

So avoid getting into trouble, don't let one moment of fun turn into a long nightmare and turn your online life into a terrible awful memory.

Don't share your info with strangers. Discretion is the key.
 
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