Being in IST classes has opened my eyes about online identity theft. I never really thought about how easy it would be for a hacker to get my personal information until now. This is a problem most people face in our society since most people are using the internet constantly for business and pleasure. I will have different links on my website that will aid in the life of a college student. One of those links will include how to be safe with your money online. My website will have little warnings on the bottom of the page, such as "Monitor your credit." I do not want to rip anyone off and I do not want to see someone being ripped off. I want everyone to see my website as a safe place to do their shopping.
Even though I am scared when I put my personal information like my credit card number online to purchase something, there are websites that I KNOW I can trust. I always feel safe when I am using big companies like amazon.com or urbanoutfitters.com. For this idea to become successful, I will need to make sure the website is a safe place for college students to freely use their credit cards. It will take a while for the website to get started up because the website is not selling anything, but is providing a service for others to sell, trade and buy. For my business to get started, I will need customers right away. It might take a while for the company to get started. I will have to have many advertisements on college websites, facebook, twitter and more.
In order to make sure there is no foul play when selling and buying items on my website, I will use the services "PayPal." PayPal will provide a safer way to pay. PayPal is used for many online shopping websites such as amazon and ebay. I think everyone trusts PayPal so it will work out well to use that service on my website. If the website does extremely well with many customers, I would want to create the website's own online "money" called T-bucks (textbook bucks). T-bucks would be PayPal but for only my website. T-bucks would only be created if there were enough customers. For the beginning, PayPal is a good idea. 18-29 year olds account for almost 30% of all identity theft complaints. That is mostly college students, graduates and graduate students. I need to make sure my website is secure so none of the people using my website will get anything stolen from their identity to one dollar.
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