How to Maintain a ‘Low Profile’ Online

 

It is not entirely easy to stay anonymous online because there are always people on the watch whenever you are doing something over the internet. Its worth noting that the sites that we use everyday are manned by people who can easily access our information and trace all the things we do online. 

 

Good news is, although it is difficult to hide from such people, often they should be the least of your concerns for they need you to remain in business. 

It is people that can harm you like scammers and hackers that you should be worried about. This is why you may want to pick up a few tips which can enable you to still enjoy surfing the web as much as you’d like to; but anonymously. 

 

How to Maintain a Low Profile On the Internet

Always choose to remove your personal information if it is possible whenever you are using a search engine like Google. There are at times that you are given an option to provide your physical address or phone number and in such cases, always avoid giving out such information.

 

Especially if you are able to avoid providing information that could be used to trace you, you should definitely take the chance. As long as you don’t give personal details that can reveal your identity, you remain just another web surfer. So quite simply, you remain anonymous. 

 

Create an account that you can always use in case you are required to give your email address online so that you will not have to use the address that you use every day for core purposes. You could use such an address whenever you are making purchases online or for any registrations that you may be involved with, then you can close the account once you are done with it. This way, it will be hard for anyone to trace the account back to you after you have done what you needed to do.

 

Make your home network invisible to anyone that would want to access it without your authorization. If you are using a router for instance, many people can hack into it and access any computer that is connected to the router. There is a stealth mode in any router that you can use in order to make your network invisible to all unauthorised people. This way, no one will be able to hack into it.

 

When you are using Facebook, ensure that you understand all privacy settings so that you can use these settings to keep yourself safe and invisible to anyone that could try to search for you. You can use the settings to maintain a low profile and still enjoy the site all the time. Therefore it is possible to remain fairly anonymous even on a social network.

 

You can also use an anonymous browsing proxy so that site providers will not even know your IP address. You will visit any site that you want but none of them will be able to trace you to your exact location. This will certainly make things very easy for you to remain anonymous online.

 

So many people are using the internet these days and one never knows who is watching their every move. As a result it’s good to protect yourself so that you will remain safe and invisible to the people that could be dangerous or you quite simply don’t want to have access to your personal business. 

 

Being safe and anonymous online will give a great peace of mind as you use the internet every day.