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Nazareth Area Middle School Cyber Safety Tips
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with the entire world through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you doing?” Twitter is a free tool for reading and engaging in multiple conversations in real-time. You can follow individuals, news, organizations, businesses and more for valuable education and parenting resources and articles.
What parents need to know...
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Twitter is very public and it only takes a second for something to go outside of your network and to the public.
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Even if the account is private, the profile is still public, get your own account and look at your teen's profile. Is there anything on there that you would rather see hidden away? Then talk to you teen and work with them to adjust their profile.
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By default, all new accounts are set to public.
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Tweets made publicly will always be visible to the public, even after you have changed to private.
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Public tweets can be seen by anybody, even those without a Twitter account.
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By setting the account to private, no one can interact until they are manually approved. Only once they are approved and your child exchange tweets with that person.
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Tweets made by a protected account cannot be recycled or "retweeted", and are not visible to anyone outside of their followers.
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