| A | B |
|---|
| Phishing | An attempt to trick usersinto revealing personal information or financial data |
| PayPal | Online service that people use to pay for items that they purchase on sites like Ebay |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator. The URL is word-like address used to locate a specific web page on the Internet |
| Disaster Con | Scammers taking advantage of the human desire to help |
| Blog | A website that consists of a series of data entries |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language. The programming language used to create web pages |
| Bloggers | People who maintain and use blogs |
| Robot Wisdom Weblog | First Blog |
| John Barger | Coined the term Weblog to describe his Robot Wisdom Weblog |
| Peter Merholz | Shortened the term Weblog to create the term blog |
| Blogosphere | The blogging community as a whole. This includes all blogging forums, blogging sites, and individually maintained blogs |
| Attack blog | A blog written spcifically attack an individual, company or group |
| Libel | Publishing statements that you know to be untrue |
| Discretion | the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment |
| Social Networking Site | A website that allows users to define relationships between themselves and network among not just their own friends but friends of friends |
| MySpace | The first social networking site to go viral |
| Facebook | Started by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg |
| Friending | Sending an invitation to someone to become a "friend" on Facebook or other social networking site |
| Poke | Letting another user know you'd like to get his or her attention. |
| 72% | The percentage of teens and young adults using at least one social networking site |
| Third-Party Apps | A separate program that works within the social networking site to provide additional functionality |
| F2F | A face to face meeting (in person) with someone you've met online |
| Cyberstalker | A predator who uses the Internet (via chat rooms, IM or email) to harass their victims |
| Cyberstalking | A high-tech form of general stalking |
| Free email account | A web-based email account you can access from anywhere and that isn't tied to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) |
| Music | One of the hottest products being illegally downloaded from the Net |
| Movies | One of the hottest products being illegally downloaded from the Net |
| Software | One fo the hottest products being illegally downloaded from the Net |
| Video Games | One the hottest products being illegally downloaded from the |
| Money Order Scam | Especially common scam according to postal inspector Fred Van De Putte |
| Monitoring Software | Software that can be downloaded to your computer to watch what you are doing |
| Piracy | The illegal copying of software for distribution within the organization, or to friends, clubs and other groups, or for duplication |
| Xanga | Program to create your own blog |
| Don't say anything at all | If you can't say anything nice... |
