Online Safety Information
Use Cyber Street-Smarts
- Use a gender-neutral username/email address.
- Use a free email account such as Hotmail or Yahoo for newsgroups/mailing lists, chatrooms, IMs, emails from strangers, message boards, filling out forms and other online activities.
- Don't give your primary email address to anyone you do not know or trust (see above).
- Don't provide your credit card number or other information as proof of age to access or subscribe to a website you aren't familiar with.
- Before "speaking" or posting messages on newsgroups, mailing lists and chatrooms be familiar with the content and demographic.
- Don't be so trusting online - don't reveal personal things about yourself until you really and truly sure that you know the other person.
- Your first instinct may be to defend yourself - DON'T - this is how most online harassment situations begin.
- If it looks too good to be true - it probably is.
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