As students adjust to returning to school this fall, law enforcement members and online safety experts are reminding parents to be cautious about the information they share on social media. It may give predators access to children and scammers access to personal information.
“We’re not saying not to share,” Deputy Sheriff Tim Creighton of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office in Woodstock, Illinois, recently told Fox News Digital.
“I have people to this day on my feeds. They are sharing way too much information.”
“Less is better,” he said. “Your close friends and family know the important details about your kids, such as the town they live in, the school they go to, their full name. Strangers don’t need to know that.”
“Cybersecurity, internet passwords, fraud, sex trafficking — there’s a lot,” Creighton has said of the various reasons that certain details should be omitted. Read More