From the dashboard, you can keep tabs on badges and rewards you've earned (you get a "Rookie Cookie" badge just for activating the app), as well as notifications. The app awards reward points for sharing safe links, for clicks and "likes" generated by those links, and, of course, for the number of friends you get to join the ShareSafe community. Points are also awarded for other behaviors, but the exact details are secret to "keep things interesting," F-Secure explains.

Points can then be redeemed for products. Right now, prizes are limited to security software made by F-Secure, but perhaps we'll see a wider selection in the future.

From the links feed, you can see top links for all of Facebook. You can also choose a category and see the top links for that category--such as pictures, news, or health. A "top link" is determined by the number of Facebook "likes" it has received.

Why Share Safely?

Why would you want to view your news feed and wall items through ShareSafe? Because before ShareSafe displays any items with links, it checks the links for . This way, you can make sure neither you nor any of your friends are circulating URLs to poisoned sites.