A friendly reminder: Teach new internet users about online safety.

I don’t know about you, but I know a lot of inexperienced internet users, who are just now beginning to try it out. If you think about it, and go up a few age groups I’m do sure you do too. Have you ever tried to help these people with their problems? And been annoyed when they did not learn to write in a website address in the first 30 minutes of trying? Probably.

I’m not writing to give you any genius suggestions on how to handle this problem; How to teach better, or to be more patient. But, simply to remind you that the most important thing, after they know the basic “how to’s,” is to tell them about internet safety.

Tell them to not give away their passwords, user names or bank account numbers to anyone. Explain how situations like this occurs and what to do when it does.

Because after all, the people who are victims for phishing attacks (like the one that Hotmail users faced in October) and others things are probably not the people who have used their computers for a decade. They are the people who have just started to be more comfortable with the use of the internet and isn’t as suspicious as they used to be. These users are probably also the ones who miss the article about the fact that their account info might have been stolen and thus should change their password. Or even worse should immediately block their bank account.

I hope this reminder will encourage you to take to time to call someone you care about to remind them of internet safety.

At http://www.getsafeonline.org/ you will find a few great tips on general safety online.
You can read about how to aviod phishing attacks here: 12 steps to avoid phishing scams

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