Tools learned during first term

Francisco Galvez and Joaquin Ozores

What is a social media?

Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.

Some examples:

>Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.

>Twitter is a free microblogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. Twitter members can broadcast tweets and follow other users' tweets by using multiple platforms and devices.

>Wikipedia is a free, open content online encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a community of users known as Wikipedians. Anyone registered on the site can create an article for publication; registration is not required to edit articles.

>Instagram is a mobile, desktop, and internet-based photo-sharing application and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly or privately.

This social medias are very fun but we also have to be careful when using them.

■One of the ways to stay safe when using the internet is not accepting unknown or souspicious people.

■ Another way of staying safe in social medias is using strong passwords,so it will be more difficult to get in your acount. A way of doing it is using numbers, letters and it must be at least 9 characters long (more or less).

■ You do not want to share your personal information to strangers, because if you do, you are going to regret that decision. Strangers can publish your personal information without your permission and the people who read that information can use it to know who your family is, where you live and when do you leave your house, for example. That means that they can threaten you in any possible way.

■ If you do not want to catch a virus you must install an antivirus. Here a list of recomended brands: Bitdefender, Norton security, AVG ultimate, McAfee Total Protection, Panda free Antivirus, etc.

In conclusion, you must be carefoul when using the internet and use it whisely.

To conclude, we leave you an informative youtube video about staying safe when surfing in the web if you want to see it.

See ya :)