Social Media Safety Guides

 

 
 

Staying safe on social media- We’ve got your back!

Introducing our new Social Media Safety Guides for Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, and Youtube! We have worked hard alongside each of these platforms to make the process of understanding online safety a priority.

Every guide gives user friendly information on how to best use reporting and privacy tools on each platform, and for the very first time all of this information is located in one nifty location!
 

 
FAQ:

What makes these guides different than what is up on each social media site?
Each guide offers expanded information regarding privacy settings and reporting tools, and provides this information with transparent and accessible language from each of the social media platforms. The guides provide a more user focused perspective to navigating tools to keep you safe online.
 

How do the social media partnerships work?
Each social media platform has worked with us to provide feedback and guidance on the guide specific to their site. Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr added the most up to date tips and best practices for keeping safe on each platform, and helped to make the language and details more accessible than ever.
 

What is online harassment?
Online harassment includes a wide range of targeted behaviors including: threats, continued hateful messages, doxing, DDoS attacks, swatting, defamation, and more. Online harassment can target (or come from) a group or individual and often has the expressed purpose of having the individual or group leave the internet or take down their content.

While there is space for debate and discussion online (as well as conflicting ideas!), what separates online harassment from healthy discourse is the focus on harm: including publishing personal information, sending threats with the intention to scare or harm, and even directly promoting harm against a person or organization. We believe in a free internet where individuals feel safe to connect, and online harassment isn’t a part of that.
 

Who experiences online harassment?
According to a Pew Research Center survey from late last year, 40% of people have been harassed online and 73% of people witnessed someone else being harassed online. We know that many folks, from all walks of life, experience and even perpetuate online harassment. However, when it comes to threats, women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks are disproportionately impacted. Of those who have experienced online harassment, 66% said their most recent incident occurred on a social networking site or app.