How Can YOU Keep Safe in Chat Rooms?

How Can YOU Keep Safe In Chat Rooms?

Read the follow sentences. Use the drop down boxes to select the correct word(s) to fill in the blank or the selection boxes to select your choices. Be sure to do BOTH pages of this activity.

1.  Be careful who you trust online. Remembering that online friends are really click herefamilyfriendsstrangers. No matter how long you’ve been talking to this person, they may not end up being who they said they were.

2.  Meeting someone you have only been in touch with online can be dangerous. If you feel you “have to meet” someone from online, to stay safe, tell click hereyour parent/familyyour best friendyour principalyour teacher . ALWAYS meet click hereat schoolat your housein a public placein the park.

3.  Stay in charge in chat. Keep your click herescreen namepersonal informationfavorite song secret! Don’t give out your telephone number, address, name, mobile number, private email address or picture online. Giving out personal information can make click hereyou invinciblesusceptible to dangerpopular.

4.  Check your profile and make sure it doesn’t include any personal information. For example:

name telephone number mobile number

address favorite color private email

picture school name travel

5.  Get away from an unpleasant situation in a chat room by click heretelling the person you don't want to talkkeep talking to thembe unpleasant backlogging out!

6.  Think before you answer private messages. It can be hard to end a message in a click herepublic chatprivate chat, than in a click hereprivate chatpublic chat.

7.  Use a nickname, not a click herereal namename that is inappropriatereal name or a name that is inappropriate. Also, it may give people the wrong idea.

8.  Look out for your friends and click hereignore the situationdo something if you think that they may be unsafe.

9.  Tell your family or an adult if someone makes you feel click hereuncomfortablelike laughing.

10.  Learn how to keep/save copy of the conversation in a chat.

copy/paste it into Word other

11.  Learn how to block/ignore people.

right click and select block go into preferences

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12. Check that you know how to report something.

keep a copy of your conversation and turn it in

click the help tab on your chat website

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