1. T HINK ! Before You Post A lesson on Internet Safety Source: www.cybertipline.comwww.cybertipline.com

2. Social Networking Sites Social networking sites allow you to express yourself and keep in touch with friends by exchanging messages or comments and posting personal profiles describing who you are and your interests.

3. Social Networking Sites If practiced safely, there can be many positive aspects of social networking. However, you should understand how posting too much information on your profile and communicating with people you’ve only met online can put you in potential danger.

4. Social Networking Sites Some sites and services ask you to post a “profile” with your age, sex, hobbies, and interests. While these profiles help you connect and share common interests, potential exploiters can and do use these profiles to search for victims

5. Think you know who you’re talking to? Users may pose as someone else — a different person or a person of a different age — without others knowing. Such users take advantage of this and use social- networking profiles to entice or sexually exploit teens.

6. Think you know who you’re talking to? That cute 16 year old boy… May not be cute… May not be 16… May not be a boy… You never know

7. This recently happened in Georgia Read about what happened at: http://patch.com/georgia/cartersville/police-man-used-kik-messaging- app-extort-girl-13- 0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hs&utm_campaign= http://patch.com/georgia/cartersville/police-man-used-kik-messaging- app-extort-girl-13- 0?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hs&utm_campaign=

8. Have you ever heard the saying ‘You can’t un-ring a bell’? When you post something on line ▫You’ve lost control of it ▫It can be saved, copied, and forwarded ▫It can haunt you forever Always remember what you post online is not private.

9. Internet Safety Video View the video “Your Photo Fate” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGfpt2hjAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGfpt2hjAE Return the PPT after viewing the video.

10. Think! Before you Post You can’t “take back” the online text, images, and videos you’ve entered. Once online, “chat” as well as other web postings become public information. Many web sites are “cached” by search engines, and photos, text and videos can be retrieved long after the site has been deleted.

11. Think! Before you Post Parents, teachers, coaches, employers, and admissions officers may go online and find out things about you – from your profile, or from someone else’s. Some teens have lost jobs, college admission offers, and scholarships because of information posted online.

12. Tips for Staying Safe Never post your personal information, such as ▫Cell phone number ▫Address ▫Name of your school or school team.

13. Tips for Staying Safe Check the background of your photos for things that might reveal your location such as: ▫License plate of your car ▫Signs ▫Name of your sports team on your jersey ▫Easily recognizable locations – such as a mall Hey Stalker! Here I am!

14. Tips for Staying Safe Never give out your password to anyone other than your parent or guardian. Refrain from making or posting plans and activities on your site. Hey Stalker! I am going skating. Wanna come?

15. Tips for Staying Safe Only add people as friends to your site, Snap Chat, Kik, etc. if you know them in person.

16. Tips for Staying Safe ‘Unfriend’ or block people who make you uncomfortable

17. Tips for Staying Safe Never meet in person with anyone you first “met” on a social networking site. Some people may not be who they say they are.

18. Tips for Staying Safe Never respond to harassing or rude comments posted on your profile. Delete any unwanted messages or ‘unfriend’ people who leave inappropriate comments. Report these comments to the networking site or Internet Service Provider if they violate that site’s terms of service.

19. Tips for Staying Safe Check the privacy settings of the social networking sites that you use: ▫Set privacy so that people can only be added as your friend if you approve it. ▫Set privacy so that people can only view your profile and pictures if you have approved them as a friend.

20. Video Chatting Video chatting is gaining in popularity and may bring up some sticky situations. ▫Use privacy settings  Allow contacts from your existing friend list  Hide yourself from searches  Hide your friend list

21. Video Chatting No sexy stuff (on video or in photos) Did you know? ▫Video chats are easily recorded ▫Once it is captured on video, it can last forever and be broadcast and viewed by vast anonymous audiences.

22. Video Chatting Steer clear of instant video-chatting sites which instantly connects you with strangers (who are typically trolling for sexual encounters).

23. Chat Rooms A chatroom is one of the most dangerous areas on the Internet. You never know who is in one, so never type anything you wouldn’t say in public.

24. Chat Rooms To put it bluntly, chatrooms — especially those used by teenagers — are sometimes also used by child molesters to find victims. You have the right to remain in control of your own experiences. You don’t have to accept inappropriate behavior from anyone.

25. What to report Anyone you don’t know who asks for personal information, photos or videos Unsolicited obscene material from people or companies you don’t know.

26. What to report Misleading URLs on the Internet that point you to sites containing harmful material rather than what you were looking for. Anyone who wants to send you photos or videos containing obscene content of individuals 18 and younger. (The possession, manufacturing, or distributing of child pornography is illegal.)

27. What to report Online enticement for offline sexual activities. ▫No one should be making sexual invitations to you online – and it’s an especially serious crime for adults to do it.

28. How to Report Abuse If any of those things happen to you or a friend, tell an adult you trust, talk to Officer Jerome, and report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s at: ▫www.cybertipline.comwww.cybertipline.com

29. And Be Responsible Chances are, you know more about the dangers of the internet than your parents. Educate your parents on how to keep your younger brothers and sisters safe. ▫Keep computers in a public place in your home ▫Know their passwords ▫Check their privacy settings ▫Install an internet filter like Net Nanny