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1. Be authentic<\/strong> – use a genuine profile picture, be honest in your bio and always tell the truth in your posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Understand the social media platforms you use<\/strong> – familiarize yourself with platform-specific features like geotagging and privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Be respectful<\/strong> – Your opinion is not always the correct one, be respectful of other people\u2019s views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Report unacceptable behaviour<\/strong> – educate yourself on the dangers of cyberbullying, grooming, deepfake, etc. and learn how to screenshot, report and block!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Have fun, responsibly<\/strong> – Social Media platforms exist as a means to help all walks of life keep connected. Be responsible when using the platforms and also when it comes to the amount of time you spend on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [bctt tweet=”#ThembaSouthernAfrica | 5 Important Do’s and 5 Wise Don’ts for the Youth on Social Media ” username=”ThembaSouthernA”]<\/p>\n\n\n Don’ts<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Don’t trust everyone you meet online<\/strong> – groomers and sexual predators exist and are very real!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Don’t share sensitive information<\/strong> – your ID number, Bank Account details and precise location shouldn\u2019t be on social media!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Don’t be a bully<\/strong> – Cyberbullying is unacceptable and all social media platforms have strong policies against bullying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Don’t be a troll<\/strong> – Just because your friends might want to create drama online doesn’t make it right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Don’t forget to update your apps and platform knowledge<\/strong> – Social Media platforms make changes regularly and often update their policies and t&C’s, keep yourself in the loop and ensure that your apps are in the very best working order to prevent hacking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The most important thing to remember is that everything you post online makes up a part of your digital footprint which will be online forever: the post you share today may be seen by a potential employer in 5 years\u2019 time!<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do’s: 1. Be authentic – use a genuine profile picture, be honest in your bio and always tell the truth in your posts. 2. Understand the social media platforms you use – familiarize yourself with platform-specific features like geotagging and privacy. 3. Be respectful – Your opinion is not always the correct one, be respectful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[160,41],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thembasouthernafrica","tag-online-safety","tag-social-media-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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