this video it's geared towards the women on my channel but I hope you men
continue to watch because we may need some of your advice
today's topic we're going to talk about is safety and knowing your boundaries
and some things that transpired in my life this week this is really different
for a Friday video but I wanted to share with you this topic because it's very
important I'm gonna talk about different aspects of them being safe we're going
to talk about being safe on the internet and being safe in all areas of your life
and this is geared towards the women but I hope you men can help us out in the
comments and give us some more suggestions now I'm gonna tell you the
reason for my video there was a point this week where I saw
that I had a breach of safety there was a point this week where something took
place in my life and I realized I'm not as safe as I should be I had to call in
reinforcements and I had to call in the experts and through the experts in my
son we just really made things a lot safer for me on my channel and just
safer for me in general of course if you have a channel like I do it's a little
different than a lot of you girls have it when you just you know at home but
I'm gonna talk about different points of safety and some things that we need to
really realize in our life I realized at this point in my channel that I need to
take extra precautions it was apparent to me that I really need to take extra
precautions in just my safety just the safety of my channel in general and just
to reinforce a lot of things I also reinforced my home life with cameras and
security all of these things are important to me because of my publicness
on youtube but because of just things in general that are in my life it's
something we don't think about often and it's something that we really should
think about social media is a wonderful platform but you have to be really
really careful you have to be careful in what you share your identity with others
you have to be careful what you share where you live and all those things and
I realized that and I took extra precautions
but what about other than social media there's many things in our lives that we
just don't think about so many times were such a hurry going here and there
and we aren't really in tuned with what's going on around us you know what
it's like say you walk out of a grocery store with lots of bags of groceries and
you're very busy trying to get all your groceries put away in the car are you
aware of what's going on in your surroundings so I'm gonna give you some
tips on things that you can help yourself for safety number one thing I
always suggest is when you go to a grocery store make sure you always lock
your car no matter where you go lock your vehicles I even lock my vehicles
even at home always lock your vehicles and for that matter always lock your
house all these things are important just for your general safety now for me
I have security cameras and that's not for everyone but locking your house and
locking your car is really important many times there have been cases where
people would hide in a vehicle and when the woman would go in the vehicle they
would of course startle her and surprise her
make sure when you're parking anywhere in the public that you park where
there's other people when I was a little girl my daddy had a really nice car and
he would always park his car way out at back of the parking lot because he was
always afraid that someone was gonna bump into his car doors but you know in
this day and age it's really important to keep your car parked in a very
well-lit area
another thing about your surroundings are just take a good look of your
surroundings wherever you are if you carry your pocketbook or a wallet make
sure you have that secure with you at all times
I've seen so many ladies have a pocketbook in their cart while they're
way off down the aisle looking for something keep your pocketbook close at
hand there are so many ways to scam and so many ways to do personal injury
personal injury doesn't always have to be physical how about if somebody takes
your identity I've seen that happen quite a bit lately especially on the
internet they take your name and they take your photo and they go everywhere
and they proclaim that they are you it's very disgusting and very heart-wrenching
to see that happen a lot of times they do it for fun and jokes but I take it
seriously and if I see that happening I make sure that I report it to the
authorities there's also been a lot of scams that are happening on the Internet
you know we are living in desperate times and I do believe that there's a
lot of people that are looking out for ways that they can ski them and it's
oftentimes the older generation because the younger generation are more tech
savvy but the older generation are being duped into thousands and thousands of
dollars be very careful if something comes your way and you're just not sure
about it always ask a loved one always ask someone that's younger than you or
someone that knows about computers always ask them first to make sure that
it's okay to go through with it and it has a clearance so many times they will
prey upon women especially there are widowers or women that are single a lot
of times they will come into your life and it will be your friend and it's not
just a male friend what I am finding a lot of times there would be a friend
that comes your way and they just pretend to be your friend and oftentimes
they have ulterior motives they want you to buy them things or they hint for this
and hint for that be very careful my friends because those
are eBay Gers these are people that preyed upon your loneliness in order to
get a friendship but it's going to cost you something any good people in the
internet and there are many needs that are legitimate but you got to be careful
with these GoFundMe pages hundreds of GoFundMe pages for people that you don't
know the whole situation and you don't know the whole story and you just see a
photo and you see something written if you want to give to that I would suggest
you research it more find out the hidden details about people's lives don't just
throw all kinds of money and you have no idea exactly what you're paying for a
lot of times what I like to do is I like to actually pay a bill pay someone's
bill instead of handing them money in their pocket or buy something that they
need many times you'll find people in need instead of handing them $100 buy
them $100 worth of food that way you know you're giving something that really
can help them out especially when you see the people needy on the streets
instead of giving them money buy them things that they can use and you know
what a lot of times they will decline your offer
they'll never decline the money these are things that are very important and
because of the situation I was in this week it really brought to light how
different ways that we can be scammed we can be conned and we can be tricked but
all of these things we can have a handle on we can protect ourselves we can be
more assertive and we can be more alert to what's happening in our world if I
wasn't very alert and didn't get a phone call saying I had a breach of security I
don't know what could have happened in my life but it wouldn't have been good
so for me I've gone the extra mile because of my public personality and
because my public light here on YouTube but all of you can do something maybe
there's something I forgot to mention I really want this to be an open dialogue
communication with everyone because a lot of times I would think of something
and never even think about something else that you guys come up with you guys
have come up with a lot of great ideas I know a lot of people especially the
women who never home alone have a dog and that is really amazing because the
dog can alert you to any kind of sounds and that is great make sure you always
have an extra contact number make sure you have the cell phone with you that
you can call quickly when you need it these are not things to scare us like so
many things in our world today these are things to empower us these are things to
make us stronger and these are things to help us I admit to you when I started my
online experience I was very naive but quickly I'm becoming very savvy with the
world and the ways that they like to con scam and even take identity it's crazy
world we live in but guess what there's a world of people that are fighting
against it and guess what these people are getting caught what I miss the good
old days when we had to telephone on the wall with the long cord and we didn't
want to be bothered all we did is we left the phone off the hook and you
would hear that bbbbb has it been that long ago to me it seems like yesterday
but yet this world is going at a fast pace it makes you wonder what's gonna
happen in another 10 years but you know what there's only so much of it we can
fight there's only so much of it we can hold back the world is travelling fast
my friends and like it or not we have to keep up with it and you know what
there's a lot of good in this world as well just think about it without social
media and without the internet I would never met
all of you so girls keep yourself safe and boys if you got anything that you
can help us out on ways that we can be safer in this world that we live in
please I request your comments below because you guys have a lot of wisdom
take care everyone god bless you and we'll see you on Sunday