What is social media safety?
Social media safety involves safeguarding your personal information, maintaining secure accounts, understanding privacy settings, and knowing what steps to take if issues arise.
Navigating the world of social media can be both exciting and overwhelming. With countless platforms available, it's crucial to understand how to use them safely and responsibly.
Social media safety involves safeguarding your personal information, maintaining secure accounts, understanding privacy settings, and knowing what steps to take if issues arise.
Our series of guides explore best practices for staying safe on each of the major social media platforms.
Whichever popular platform you're using, our comprehensive guides will help you protect your online presence and enjoy a secure social media experience.
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From edited photos to endless comparisons, social media can shape how we see ourselves, and this is especially true for young people. Our new toolkit is designed to support young people, parents and whānau to understand body image and how social media platforms may impact the way we see ourselves. Packed with useful advice and tips this interactive guide can help you to stop and reflect on how social media is making you feel, and shows what you can do to take more control of your feed.
- Practical tips to help you navigate social media
- Interactive reflection quiz for rangitahi
- Conversation starters to open real discussions among whānau
- Advice on spotting signs of body image struggles
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Check out our handy guide for more tips and advice to keep you safe online.
Find out what trolling is and what to do if you've been affected by online trolls.
Learn how to identify Facebook Marketplace scams and get tips to help you stay safe online.
From cyberbullying at school to workplace bullying, we can help you navigate the different forms of bullying online.
Learn how to identify competition scams and get tips to help you stay safe online.
Learn about 'fake news' and top tips for how to spot it and stop it spreading.
Advice to help work out how much screen time is appropriate considering screen-use and personal circumstances.
Sometimes young people will see inappropriate, offensive or illegal content online even if they haven’t sought it out. Here's our advice on what you should do if this happens.
Learn about doxxing and read our advice on this form of online harassment.
Learn how to identify impersonation scams and get tips to help you stay safe online.
You can contact Netsafe seven days a week for free, confidential and non-judgmental advice about an online issue impacting you or someone you know.
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