--Originally published at Fabian iTec GDA

 

This whole week was really interesting and productive I could learn more about the traces that we unconsciously leave in the Internet, I started to make my own research and I ended up amazed and scared about all the information that Facebook, Amazon, etc.. take from us.

So these are the most important advices that I could take in order to protect your identity and your information:

• Do not give any personal information in social networks (cellphone, home address, age, family members information)
• Please, stop posting every single thing about what are you doing and where you are. I know it’s really cool to do it but we must not only protect ourselves from hackers but also from malicious peoples such as kidnappers and who knows what else.
• Don’t become famous… Seriously if you are not famous people won’t be that interested on hacking your accounts.
• If you start to have a strong argumentation, aggression or any  online-fight please stop… Don’t make enemies and become a target for free, if you don’t feed them they’ll go away.
• Give important information only to those trusted entities and only when required such as banks. (Although I strongly prefer to do those things in person because I don’t really trust giving that kind of information on the internet).
• Please try to keep your social stuff where it belongs and don’t give any information for free.

All I have to say is “Thanks Ken for this amazing experience and for sharing your knowledge” we as students need more people with these kind of ideas because education is constantly evolving and it is necessary to improve our methodologies all the time.

 

Fabian Galindo

--Originally published at Fabian iTec GDA

No one knows you better than you, many people may try to describe yourself but they would only be describing what they are able or were able to see, because you can fake an identity trying to show someone that is not you and some people might buy it. Well, at least that’s what I think and below I describe myself in 5 words

 

Friendly: I’m that kind of person that doesn’t talk too much at the beginning  but I get more extrovert with time. Also, I try to get along with people in a healthy way maybe telling a joke to break the ice, laughing, getting serious when needed.

 

Dreamer: I also consider myself someone who’s always looking beyond on future projects, things that I could do, the way that I picture myself in a couple of years and I always believe that everything is possible that you are the one that sets the limits.

 

Thinker: I spend much of my time about thinking on how things work, one of the things that I like the most is science specially physics because that’s is a way to understand many things around us.

 

Persistent: I like to set challenges to myself, sometimes people think and believe some things are impossible and can’t be done or it’s way too hard to do it, but that is something that encourages even more to take challenges and demonstrate that there are no impossible things. I agree, things sometimes are not easy, but I try to be persistent enough to get things done even though they seem too difficult.

 

Open-minded: I don’t like people with a closed mentality, I think everyone shouldn’t be judge on the way they think because it is impossible for all to think in the same way and that’s way I consider myself open-minded

 

 

Fabian Galindo

 

 

 

--Originally published at Fabian iTec GDA

Internet has become part of our daily life, we use it for different purposes either to find a job in LinkedIn, to use an online platform for school courses, contact your old friends or upload the photos from the party last night in Facebook, to share our smart thoughts in Twitter, to check the status of our bank account and the list could go on forever. So it is impossible not to be part of the internet and lately a big part of it belongs to the social media.

Every time that we use a web site where we have to put our personal information we leave a track of ourselves about how we are, in other words “our identity” and many people don’t really realize the amount of exposure that things on the internet may have. So every single piece of information in the web is stored somewhere at some server around the world, therefore someone else has our information and it is not necessarily secure and that means we have to be really careful with the things we post/provide/share/store in the internet and who is it for since it’s obviously not the same sharing on Instagram the pictures of your last vacation than sharing your credit card number.

Thus, the wise advice is to restrict the information to be used/shared in the internet E.g Facebook has different levels of privilege to expose your info depending on the viewer (if it’s a friend or not, if that person belongs to a certain group, etc.) and only post stuff that you don’t care if anyone sees it because that might be exposed to somebody who’s not even your friend (E.g. people can take screenshots), and the rest of private personal information use it just when necessary and in the appropriate place such as bank info, social security numbers, addresses, phones, personal business info.