2. Overview
• Why do people use the internet?
• Internet usage statistics
• Potential dangers of the internet
• Internet safety tips for everyone
• Survey
7. Entertainment
• Play games by yourself or with others
• Listen to music
• Watch video clips
• Find out about your favorite sports team or
movie stars!
9. Internet usage statistics
• 2,267,233,742 internet users
• 835 million Facebook users
• 526 million daily active users on average in
March 2012.
• More than 300 million photos uploaded to
Facebook per day
10. Internet is good but…
• The internet is fun.
• But it could also be
dangerous.
• That’s why,please listen
carefully.
11. Potential dangers of the internet
Causes:
• Harmful softwares
• The lack of information about
internet safety
Results:
• Personal information can be stolen.
• Internet fraud and scams
(your money can be stolen)
13. Computer viruses
• A computer virus is a computer program that
can replicate itself and spread from one
computer to another.
Delete important files
Cause the computer to crash
Spread easily
Hide itself
14. Spams
• The term spam most often refers to an e-mail
message sent to a large number of people
without their consent.
• Spam: E-mail messages sent from someone you
don’t know
21. Result: Personal information can be
stolen
• Bad people may use your information for doing
bad things
• Photos may be copied and used inappropriately
by other people
22. Result: Internet Fraud and Scams (your
money can be stolen)
• Unsafe online shopping
Especially, via credit card
• Keylogging
▫ is the action of tracking (or logging) the keys
struck on a keyboard
23. Internet safety tips for everyone
• NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION !
Your real name Phone number
Address Birthdate School number
• KEEP YOUR PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE !
• USE NICK NAMES !
24. Internet safety tips for everyone
• DON’T UPLOAD PHOTOS PUBLICLY !
▫ Only your friends and family
▫ Photos may be copied and used
inappropriately
• DON’T OPEN UNKNOWN WEBSITES !
▫ Especially; full free software websites
A Quote : “The Only Free Cheese is in the Mousetrap”
25. Internet safety tips for everyone
• DON’T OPEN EMAIL FROM STRANGERS !
▫ Emails may contain viruses
▫ Delete emails from strangers !
• DON’T OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS THAT YOU DON’T
KNOW !
▫ It is so important
• LOG OFF WHEN YOU ARE DONE
▫ Especially in public internet cafe
26. Internet safety tips for everyone
• When using Email & Facebook…
▫ Change your password to your login often
▫ Keep it in a safe place
• ALWAYS USE A STRONG PASSWORD !
▫ Should be a combination of alphabets, number and
special characters
▫ Should have a length of size greater than 8 characters.
27. Internet safety tips for everyone
• ALWAYS INSTALL GOOD ANTIVIRUS
SOFTWARE
▫ Update it regularly