Usually online services require users to provide some personal information in order to use their service. Consider the things that can be done with your personal information that could possibly impact your digital reputation.
The following suggestions would be good to consider for protecting your personal information online:
Only disclose financial information on secure websites. Reduce spam by protecting your details.
installing and using spam filtering software
Understand that information shared online can be permanent and users may not have control over who accesses their personal information. This includes teachers, parents and students.
Personal information is information that enables an individual to be identified. Personal information is used by many students for different education oriented websites. However, this is not always the case and some personal information can be misused inappropriately by others whos intent is to misuse someone else's identity.