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2024-12-19
Signing Up for Accounts
- Create email addresses and usernames that don’t contain identifying information such as your full name or birth date/year.
- Use different usernames and profile pictures for each site, and have more than one email account for different purposes like work, school, and social groups. You can also consider using a picture that isn’t of you for your profile photo.
- Be thoughtful about sharing personal information beyond what’s necessary to create an account or set up a profile. Sometimes sites don’t make it obvious that the information being requested is optional, so look out for the fine print!
- Click “no” when sites or apps offer to check your contact list to help connect you with your friends already on their site.
- Opt out of having your profile be searchable on the site itself, and from showing up in general search results like Google.