Friendships That End Horribly Due To Social Media Feuds?

Hello, Saint Nexusisus Teens!  

Most of your friends, and peers have social media accounts with websites such as Face book, Instagram, and Snap Chat. These social media sites allow you, and your friends to share photo's, games, Likes, discussions, friends, and share your favorite places with your friends. However, social media can have it's draw backs, which can easily lead to an online social media feud between good friends. The following tips below are suggestions to prevent future online feuds between friends, and peers.

1. Do not make comments, or shade fellow users who are on your friend list  publicly. If you have a disagreement with that person be honorable by discuss it in a private chat where emotions will not run as high.

2. Never join in with fellow friends to taunt, or make fun of someone who is on your friend list or the friend list of fellow friends.

3. Try to speak with friends privately that become angry with you due to your liking an ex, or enemy of a friend comments or photo's. Refrain from poking friends who you know are in relationships with fellow friends.

4. Never discuss private details about others on your public page without their knowledge, or them being involved in the conversation. Do not post images, videos, or comments that you would be embarrassed of if they were posted about you.

5. Try not to become angry with peers that may be online friends with someone who refuses to friend you. If you are feeling slighted... start out by introducing yourself, then send them a friendly message that you would like to send them a friend request.

6. Always try to be the bigger person by not stooping to harassment, or bullying a once good friend due to an online feud.

7. There is nothing wrong with trying to get a fellow trusted peer, or an adult to mediate the feud between you, and the other person.

8. Remember friends are for life so never let petty social media feuds come between what can be a life long trusted friend.

Hopefully, these preventative suggestions will encourage you to share these tips with friends, and fellow classmates. It is much easier to diffuse feuds, or disagreements between friends when everyone within your circle of friends are willing to engage one another respectfully on social media sites.

What Is An Appropriate Age For Our Children To Open Social Media Accounts?

As subscribers you all know that "Saint Nexusisus" Mission is to fight the good fight against Cyber Bullying and Identity Theft empowering its victims. However, are there precautions and preventative measures that parents can make to protect their children from the dangers of the web-wide world known as Cyber Space. 

What do parents consider when purchasing their pubescent children electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets, and online virtual reality gaming? Are parents responsibly monitoring their pubescent children and teens content usage, and how much time they are allotted daily?
Has our own dependency to the Internet, texting, and social media sites cultivated an environment that our children feel lost to due to our own Internet habits? 
Are our children turning to expensive electronic devices that we have purchased them due to our own lack of emotional, and physical interaction with them? Could this phenomenon be attributed to us wanting to indulge our own Internet addictions? As parents are we habitually checking our own devices when we are supposed to be enjoying quality time with our children during dinner, family outings, or when they are simply trying to get our attention? Do we prefer to interact with online strangers rather than interact with our children, spouses, and family members?
I strongly feel that it is our own Internet habits which will dictate as to how dependent our children will become to their electronic devices in the future. Will they choose devices over creating real relationships between themselves and others? Is it due to the amount of time we spend sharing our own lives on social media sites such as Face book, and Instagram as to why our children are becoming fatally traumatized by cyber bullying? 
Has our online social media sharing resulted in our children forming emotional complexes? And, if so is what fellow account users post, comment on, critique, discuss with peers, and share publicly more relevant than what they know to be true? Does social media encourage not only our children, but us all to become dishonest about who we really are outside of social media? Has social media caused us to actually create false facades, and embellish our lives to hide who we all really are, or give us all a sense of self-importance?

These are questions for parents to reflect upon. Our children are crying out for help within a society that is viewing, and living their lives through electronic devices. Who are choosing to ignore what is actually occurring in reality. I think it's time for us to all take a sober look at how the Internet, and social media has affected our interactions with our children, spouses, family members, friends, and even the quality of our work ethics.

Adults That You Can Confide In

Often as teenagers your privacy is everything, and you find that you may not feel comfortable discussing topics such as peer pressure, online bullying, and rejection by peers with your parents. 

As a teenager I could not confide in my parents about anything! They were super judgmental... and lectured me with hour long sermons. I found it easier for me to confide in one of my English Literature teacher's. It is important for us all to have at least one adult in which to confide in.

Who is it that you would consider your go to adult that you can confide in? If you do not have an adult confidant, is there an adult that you would feel comfortable sharing your inner most private thoughts with... who would not judge you? A good candidate would be an adult over the age of 21 years old who you would not mind sharing honest thoughts with. This is also a person in which you are willing to listen to their opinions, and wise perspectives on life? 

Do you think that this person, or person's are responsible enough to help you in the event of a possible crises? Please, share with your fellow Saint Nexusisus Teen Support subscribers your thoughts about confiding in adults.

How To Prevent Hacking and Identity Theft

Hello "Saint Nexusisus Teen Support Subscribers, 

 

Online users are now taking advantage of Social Media on the "Information Super Highway" which has made conducting business virtually impossible for any of us to perform simple everyday task. Businesses, coworkers, family, and friends are encouraging us to use their preferred method of communication through websites, or various social media outlets.

However, social media sites such as LinkedIn have encountered their user's account information exposed through hacking. Many users naively provide predators who prey on social media sites our legal names, birthday, photo's of ourselves, birthplace, current residence, relatives, close friends, employment history, and the educational institutions we attended. We have literally made all this valuable information accessible for public view.

Governmental agencies, banks, utility companies, and 70% of businesses prefer that we contact them via their website. Exchanging valuable information such as our birthday, social security number, driver's license number, address, and phone numbers online. We are encouraged to conduct our business with customer service representatives during online live chats, or via email. Placing all our valuable identifiable information at risk for Identity Theft.

Cost effective online shopping forces consumers to provide retail sites with our credit card information to complete purchases on their websites. For most of us the thought of having to do so is absolutely frightening. Many retailers website's security certificates may appear to look shady, and a little iffy... if not allot iffy. We all have witnessed serious security breaches into retailers customer's credit card information... such as Target, and The Home Depot. Millions of online users, and self-pay checkout customer's credit card information was stolen. Leaving customer's valuable credit card information up for grab ruining their credit, and identity.

We then have the worst of all predatory online offenders, which is online Cyber Bullying. These trolls roam on various websites looking to harass, and stalk website subscribers on their comment sections. Trolls often hack into our social media accounts if they can find any personal identifiable information. Such as our legal names, or email addresses. Once they have acquired this information it leaves website subscribers vulnerable to be sent root viruses via email ...in which to hack into their computers. Exposing website visitor's private, and identifyable  information from their personal computers on display  for public viewing.

Nothing is fool-proof, but we can make it extremely difficult for online predators to bully us, hack our online accounts, and steal our identities by using these precautionary tips for online users.                                             

1. Always create multiple email accounts using separate email addresses for personal, work, and social media. Never open unidentifiable emails that may tempt you by saying you won something, or that your address is required by FedEx, or other carriers to ship your package. These emails have root viruses attached that can destroy your entire computer's hard drive.

2. Never use your legal name, birthday, or location on email accounts that are dedicated accounts specifically for social media use only.

3. Never make all of your social media account information public... this information should only be shared with friends.

4. Never post your Profile, or Profile photo's for public viewing.

5. Try to accept only friend request or invites from family members, known friends, and their friends. This would consist of friend request from your friends close friends who would be socializing within the same social circles of known friends.

6. When conducting business with agencies, or company's that required you to enter identifiable information clear your browser history, and cookies often. Cookies saved in your browser history allows websites to view every site that you have visited before visiting their site. This is common practice used by websites to advertise to you specific products that you prefer. Their purpose is to overwhelm website users with advertisement pop-ups from your previous searches, and related website visits. Cookies are often referred to as footprints. They allow other websites to look into your search history, and follow your user habits as to where you have visited or frequent often. However, cookies can place your software at risk to acquire viruses. This is because many websites may be infected with malicious viruses once clicked onto their site they can pickup valuable account information through your browser.

7. NOTHING IS FREE in life. If the link says free download, or the word "free" is attached ...do not click onto such links by avoiding tempting free websites. Most are Trojan viruses that mimic legitimate sites gathering all your password information for future use.

8. If you click onto a link and you hear a siren, or a flashing pop-up that states you must call the phone number listed DON'T. If you find that your computer has frozen, it's because you have already acquired a virus. DO NOT CALL THE THAT NUMBER! This is a criminal scam that frightens the user into calling the listed phone number on the screen. A person then answers pretending to be a technical support person for Windows, or Mac that will sweep your computer free of the virus. The person will then ask to remotely access your computer in order repair it. However, their real intention is to install additional viruses which will allow them to steal all your passwords, and expose personal files. Finally, slowing your computer down by corrupting valuable space ruining your entire hard drive. Unfortunately, the virus is already in your hard-drive... immediately contact your software company Tech Support to remove the virus. Report this crime, and the link if possible to the FCC at https://www.fcc.gov/ or tel:+18882255322.

9. Change your passwords every 60 days, and do not use common passwords such as birthdays, phone numbers, children names or addresses. A strong password should consist of upper, and lower case alphabets, numbers, and symbols. If possible set a second password with a security question which you would only know the answer to. Another option is to have a text message sent to your cell phone that consist of a one time pass code, which must be entered to access your account. In your account settings set your account security to "send an email" if your account is accessed from an unregistered device. Never allow your browser to remember your passwords. ALWAYS logout when leaving a site, and never share account passwords with others.

10. When shopping online try to shop with retailers that accept PayPal. PayPal securely saves, and links your address, credit cards, and financial institution routing numbers to your PayPal account. PayPal allows you to make purchases by adding funds into your PayPal account from your checking or savings accounts, draw funds directly from your checking account for purchases, transfer funds from your PayPal account into your checking or savings accounts, and transfer your PayPal account funds into others PayPal accounts. PayPal also encourages retailers to resolve issues concerning purchases that have been disputed by the customer. If the retailer refuses to refund, or exchange the customer's purchase during the required mediation period per PayPal. PayPal will refund the customer's entire purchase price back into your PayPal account... after the mediation expiration date. This is only if the dispute has not been resolved between the retailer, and customer. The retailer is then held responsible by PayPal to reimburse them for the refund provided back to their customer. PayPal also offers pay after delivery in which the retailer is paid after they have received a delivery confirmation for your parcel. This service provides the customer 14 days after date of purchase before the funds are drawn from your account. If you must use your credit card Do Not allow websites to save your credit card information to your account. Remember to clear your browser history, and cookies before visiting other websites if your credit card information was used.

Hopefully, these safety tips will result in leaving you more confident about using social media, conducting personal business, and making purchases online.

Tser 

Welcome to Saint Nexusisus Teen Support

Welcome to Saint Nexusisus Teen Support! Once Saint Nexusisus Teen Support Group becomes fully operational I hope this is a community that you and, your peers will always feel safe visiting. Online social media, and entertainment websites must become more diligent with responsibly moderating subscriber online exchanges . Online users should not fear judgment among their peers due to bullying, stalking, and harassment.

What "Saint Nexusisus" Teen support subscribers can look forward to is seeing, and participating in free promotional giveaway's, making new friends, great discussions, and Mumble Live Chats. Tell all your friends, and family about "Saint Nexusisus". I am looking forward to Fall "2016" Back to School Time... oh come on I can hear the groans! 

There will be huge positive strides made toward the Anti-Cyber Bulling Campaign that will sweep our nation. It's time for us to stand firm, empower ourselves by knowing that we deserve better, and expect better from our fellow man.

I look forward to this blog being a supportive, and fun loving community. My hope is that "Saint Nexusisus" Teen Support will always remain to welcome it's fellow peers, yet will always remember tolerance by extending emotional support to devastated, and hurting teens.

Have A Safe Summer!!

Tser

I can be contacted at: icantstandatroll@gmail.com