#internet psa

IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY, CHECK WHO YOU’RE FOLLOWING ON APPS LIKE INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. I’VE TALKED WITH MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHED TO FOLLOWING TRUMP, JD VANCE, AND ANY OF THE TRUMP FAMILY MEMBERS.

I currently only know of this happening on Facebook and instagram at the moment, but it might be happening on other platforms. Please double-check to see whether you were automatically set to following one of them.

Internet PSA #2, Scams!

Whether it be via email, social media, or tumblr asks you should be suspect of offers of money, or requests to donate to causes.

Unfortunately people who would like to exploit you are out there! And this isn't something new either! Scams over the internet have been going around ever since the public first had access back in the 90's.

How can you protect yourself? Well, for example, if you get a ask on tumblr, (or dm on other media platforms) requesting to donate to an urgent cause, perhaps someone claiming they need help buying their insulin, do some investigating into their account.

Look out for inconsistencies with their name/family member names.

Look at date stamps on posts. Does it look like they posted 50+ things in one day? Are reblogs/reposts coming from seemingly random points in time?

Is there a lack of other posts? or do they perhaps reuse the same post over and over?

Look into the site they use for donations, does the location match with where they say they are? (eg: "I'm close to g@za" but the donation site says texas.)

And same goes for offers of money

Do. Some. Digging!

And remember, NEVER give someone your debit/credit card numbers, and never give someone the password to your paypal/cashapp/chime/etc.

And definitely don't donate to someone without verifying first that they're not posing as someone else/a made up person.

As much as many of us would like to have faith that people are genuine, do look out for people with not-so-honest intentions.

That's it for today! See you next time and remember,

For our first psa, I will start with the topic of location.

So what's the big deal with sharing your location? A lot actually.

So many of us have at least a friend or two that shares everything including where they are and where they're going. which seems harmless, right? Wrong!

To you, the close -or decently close- friend, it doesn't mean much. I mean what are you going to do with your friend's location? But what about the internet? That's where things can get not so safe.

Say, you post a picture of a route on a map you're going to take. You zoom it out and cross out the city names. seems good to you! but that location dot on screen is enough. Your city, and the part of it you live in can be found -and easily too!

Why's it important to keep your location secret? Because cyber stalking exists and is very hard to predict. And you don't want a cyber stalker to become an irl stalker.

What information tips people off? Well a lot of simple, little things so I would suggest you avoid posting:

Maps screenshots.

Street signs.

License plates.

Names of local businesses.

Landmarks.

Your town/city name if it's a small area.

Location data from photo geotagging.

and more.

You can protect yourself by refraining from posting personal information online, and to remove such data from images, preferably with an app for photo editing. I suggest ibis paint x if you're on a phone. Also make sure that you turn off geotagging.

That about wraps up our first ever PSA! Feel free to reblog and share.

See you next time, and remember:

This can and will happen to everyone on the internet. You are not exempt from it. Block and move on if you need to.

Don't argue with the trolls for hours or be an asshole on someone else's post. You can make your own post if you really want to say something.

Harassment towards anyone, no matter how seemingly deserved, isn't going to help anyone or do anything good in the end.

Log off if you need to. Go to the library or work on an offline hobby for a few hours. Go do something you've been putting off - start with the simplest thing on your to-do list. Hang out with friends in real life. As someone else who's chronically online, taking breaks has been damn near vital for me, even if it's tempting to doomscroll for the rest of the night.

if you dont want nsfw accs interacting w you just say nsfw dni or this is a sfw acc

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theres no fuckin need to say youre a minor

just block ppl and words

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