1. Internet Safety
Prepared by
Fatih Kazmacan
Muhammet Yasin PAK
Hasan Uçar

2. Overview
• Why do people use the internet?
• Internet usage statistics
• Potential dangers of the internet
• Internet safety tips for everyone
• Survey

3. Why do people use the internet?

4. Why do people use the internet?
• Communication
• Information
• Entertainment

5. Communication
• E-mail
• Social media
• Instant Messaging
Stay in touch with your friends…
…from school…
…your city…
…your world!

6. Information
The world’s biggest library!
• Look up words
• Read stories
• Learn almost anything!

7. Entertainment
• Play games by yourself or with others
• Listen to music
• Watch video clips
• Find out about your favorite sports team or
movie stars!

8. Internet usage statistics

9. Internet usage statistics
• 2,267,233,742 internet users
• 835 million Facebook users
• 526 million daily active users on average in
March 2012.
• More than 300 million photos uploaded to
Facebook per day

10. Internet is good but…
• The internet is fun.
• But it could also be
dangerous.
• That’s why,please listen
carefully.

11. Potential dangers of the internet
Causes:
• Harmful softwares
• The lack of information about
internet safety
Results:
• Personal information can be stolen.
• Internet fraud and scams
(your money can be stolen)

12. Cause : Harmful softwares
• Malware (malicious software)
 Computer viruses
 Spams
 Worms
 Trojan horses
 Spyware
 Adware

13. Computer viruses
• A computer virus is a computer program that
can replicate itself and spread from one
computer to another.
 Delete important files
 Cause the computer to crash
 Spread easily
 Hide itself

14. Spams
• The term spam most often refers to an e-mail
message sent to a large number of people
without their consent.
• Spam: E-mail messages sent from someone you
don’t know

15. An example : Send fake mail

17. Cause: The lack of information about internet
safety
• Internet users have no enough information
• Mass media should raise the awareness of public

19. Facebook
In the Ottoman
Empire

20. Copy-Paste 

21. Result: Personal information can be
stolen
• Bad people may use your information for doing
bad things
• Photos may be copied and used inappropriately
by other people

22. Result: Internet Fraud and Scams (your
money can be stolen)
• Unsafe online shopping
 Especially, via credit card
• Keylogging
▫ is the action of tracking (or logging) the keys
struck on a keyboard

23. Internet safety tips for everyone
• NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL
INFORMATION !
Your real name Phone number
Address Birthdate School number
• KEEP YOUR PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE !
• USE NICK NAMES !

24. Internet safety tips for everyone
• DON’T UPLOAD PHOTOS PUBLICLY !
▫ Only your friends and family
▫ Photos may be copied and used
inappropriately
• DON’T OPEN UNKNOWN WEBSITES !
▫ Especially; full free software websites
 A Quote : “The Only Free Cheese is in the Mousetrap”

25. Internet safety tips for everyone
• DON’T OPEN EMAIL FROM STRANGERS !
▫ Emails may contain viruses
▫ Delete emails from strangers !
• DON’T OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS THAT YOU DON’T
KNOW !
▫ It is so important
• LOG OFF WHEN YOU ARE DONE
▫ Especially in public internet cafe

26. Internet safety tips for everyone
• When using Email & Facebook…
▫ Change your password to your login often
▫ Keep it in a safe place
• ALWAYS USE A STRONG PASSWORD !
▫ Should be a combination of alphabets, number and
special characters
▫ Should have a length of size greater than 8 characters.

27. Internet safety tips for everyone
• ALWAYS INSTALL GOOD ANTIVIRUS
SOFTWARE
▫ Update it regularly

28. Most importantly,
• BECOME AWARE OF …

29. Survey
• About internet usage and safety
• Respondents: Male:56 Female:96
• It was made with Turkish questions

30. Survey Results
• Do you have any technological tools to connect
the internet? (pc,mobile phone,tablet)

31. Do you have internet connection at
home?

32. Avarage internet usage per day

33. The frequency of using e-mail

34. The frequency of changing password

35. The length of the password

36. Is the password strong?

37. The use of Anti-virus programme

38. Have you ever be exposed to hack ?