Robert Siciliano is a NextAdvisor.com Expert Guest Blogger
CNN m invited him to discuss the murder of a young woman who was stalked and harassed by social media, particularly Facebook and YouTube. She was eventually shot in his college class by her stalker, who then put the gun in his mouth.
Anyone who reads this blog is because they intend to improve their personal safety through safety information. With nearly 50,000 readings per month on a variety of portals, I came to understand a bit player. You guys want and need new that will help you save time and money by preventing criminals and scammers to try to take it.
I am my legs in personal safety as regards the prevention of violence. I started doing this in 1992, teaching self-defense. My experience as a skinny, fat Italian kid growing up in the Boston area, the fight against my way if life and meet other victims along the way led me to a place to teach others how to protect themselves given my life a purpose. As my business grew, I needed more technology. I also need "merchant status", which is the ability to accept credit cards, which led to even more technology. In the early 90s, I created my IBM PC PS1 Consultant, Windows 3.1, disk hard to 150mb, and became addicted to technology. Soon after, I linked to the Internet. Within weeks, my company was hacked. thousands of dollars of orders and credit card information went out the window. now, personal safety meant self-defense of another type of predator :. identity thieves and criminals pirates
My passion is personal safety regarding violence and the prevention of fraud. It is all encompassing. I speak of the things that mom and dad will teach you. I recently discussed the major issues that no parent is willing to talk. Really, me neither but someone to go do.
I love technology. But it has a very dark side to it. And predators quickly understood that. I do not blame technology for it. Just users.
Social networking is changing the world. everyone's information is everywhere, and access is instant. Predators use these tools more than ever to track children online. Stalkers can anonymously harass and harangue the women or men, and the hands of law enforcement related.
Anyone can post Controversies relatively anonymous, saying what they want with little or no impact. Simple items from online newspapers for providing information about some trivial matter delegate in hateful diatribes against the author or source, through the first comments on the wire. One comment can get people in this dangerous direction. Newspapers have eyeballs, so they rarely police these comments, and the public puts up with them. Hatred, racism, sexism and general ignorance permeates all online newspapers and social network. Not a day goes by that I do not see something totally inappropriate for public consumption.
With social media, everyone gets a say. The KKK used as a bunch of hicks burning cross. The terrorists lived in caves. Militias and skinheads were small groups who held a casual gathering. Now they have an international platform they use to promote their programs and recruit believers. Many people have very bad things to say and it is wrong many people. Encouraging words. What we say leads to action. We become what we think. If we are fed hate, we act hatefully.
Most school shooters have read the manifestos of what happened at Columbine. Many serial killers studying other serial killers. Each story we read about the killer of Craigslist and other like shows him a bag with a knife, tape, rope, metal fasteners. They use all this information.
Coming from a perspective of personal safety, I see a lot of bad things happening to good people. The bad things are said and bad things happen. rants totally unacceptable and hate have become acceptable, when it was 10 years ago this kind of diatribes would have been unthinkable. Let's get this straight, I'm not a puritan. I'm certainly not a saint. I went there, done that, and have a lot of skeletons in my closet. I can say anything and do almost everything, and nothing shocks me. I lived a hard life and danced with the devil on many occasions.
Hurtful, hateful ranting is not freedom of expression. It is irresponsible and it is bad karma. It will only lead to hurt and hatred. Its okay to have beliefs, but when these beliefs have a hatred tone and express hatred in your words, fungus problems.
I spend more energy do not say what I mean. My mother and father taught me tact. And it took a lifetime to apply it, believe me. I use social media to spread what I hope is a better message, tactfully. I hope you rise against what is happening here and spread a better word. Drive. Do not be led.
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Robert Siciliano, identity theft speaker, discusses hate on CNN.
Robert Siciliano is CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, an expert on identity theft, professional speaker, security analyst, published author and television news correspondent. Siciliano works with Fortune 1000 and start-up companies as a consultant on product launches, branding, messaging, representation, SEO and media. the thoughts and advice of Siciliano on all these issues often appear in both television and print media news, including CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, Forbes and USA Today. He has 25 years of safety training as a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He is the author of two books, including The Safety Minute: Living on high alert; How to take control of your personal safety and to prevent fraud . He also established a partnership with Uni-Ball to help raise awareness of the growing threat of identity theft and provide tips on how you can protect yourself.