Obami's Guide to Online Safety

By following Obami’s Good Guide to Online Safety in Social Networking (as outlined below), you can protect yourself from the potential threat of ID theft, fraud, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, sexual exploitation and harassment.

1. Make use of Obami’s privacy features and keep your personal information personal
   • Don’t post personal details such as your name, address, email address and telephone/mobile numbers on the public pages
   • Make sure the photos you post on the public pages don’t give away too much personal information
   • Don’t post anything about your family and friends on the public pages, they may not wish to suddenly be famous!
2. Harassment, bullying, hate speech and other unsuitable material will not be tolerated on Obami’s site
   • Block users from contacting you if they seem rude and unrelenting
   • Report any abuse to Obami (here) and that person will be appropriately dealt with
   • Tell your parents or local law enforcement office if somebody’s behaviour towards you is persistently hostile, intimidating or inappropriate in any other way
3. Everything you post online can be searched and saved for an indefinite time
   • Don’t post anything that you wouldn’t want anyone else, like your boss/partner/parents/teachers, to see
   • Don’t post any comments or anything that could be held against you, or come back to haunt you later in life
   • Just to be sure, always proofread your comments before making them live on public pages
4. Be very careful when dealing with messages from strangers
   • Don’t become a victim of ‘phishing’, whereby a message or email will ask you to enter bank details, or other personal information, in an attempt to jeopardise your privacy or steal money from you and your family
   • Be weary of downloading and opening files that could contain viruses—make sure your computer has the right spyware installed so that viruses cannot be easily picked up
   • Never respond to SPAM messages—it only assures the message sender that your email address is in use
5. Remember that, while it’s great to meet people online, you can never be 100% sure of who that person is
   • Don’t pass on any personal information to people you haven’t met offline before
   • If meeting one of your online friends offline for the first time, always be sure to take at least one other friend, and arrange to meet in a public place
6. Your password is your key to your Obami account
   • Don’t share it with anyone, not even your best friend
   • Try to memorize your password, rather than writing it down on a piece of paper that could get easily lost
7. Make sure you have read and understood Obami’s rules and ‘Terms of Service’
   • Violating them will result in your account being deleted