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Noah Gabranth 2/10 near Recolle

Given that the developers of this application seem wholly uninterested in filtering children and inexperienced users out of their testing pool, I thought it would be prudent to go over some basic rules for navigating social media safely. 1) Never disclose personally identifying information online. Ordinarily this would include one's full name, but Retrospec has made that a moot point by displaying it at all times. Nevertheless, it is important that you keep other information such as your date of birth, home address, and passwords to your online accounts a private matter. 2) Never post anything that you wouldn't want someone to see. You might think you can just delete it, but once something's on the Internet, it's effectively there forever for anyone and everyone to see. Think carefully before you post. 3) If someone on the Internet wishes to meet with you offline, never go alone. Ensure that you have someone with you, preferably a parent or other trusted adult, and ensure that you'll be meeting in a public, well-lit area in open view. Better yet, don't go at all, as not everyone on the Internet is really who they say they are. If anyone has any additional safety pointers, you're welcome to add them to this post.

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[darkinferno]

Dante Rantanen aside from the fact that there are plenty of websites that let you look up people's addresses and phone numbers by name alone
Dante Rantanen or you know
Dante Rantanen a phone book
Dante Rantanen i'm just saying these might be better suited to fifth-grade classrooms and "technology 101: how to connect to the world wide web" than on a social media network everybody's already screwing around on