Online Safety

Hey everyone! I havn't posted a blog in a while so heers one to start off the new year. 

Myspace, Facebook, Chatrooms, and online games. What do they all have in common? They all contain strangers....people unknown to you. They are everywhere on theses games and sites. Many people are messaged and IMed from these and people say "Hi" and you don't even know the person and then you say hi back and "snap!" youve fallin into their trap already. You and the person talk and get friendly and mabey a little flirty... after a little while he says "whats your name?" "where do you live?" and then you hesitate and tell him all theses things and he says hes gonna meet you...He comes to your house and it turns out hes a 50 year old guy whos a rapist.

See the problem there and all of you know whats coming after that. Myspace is a very bad stranger danger area and I have one and I get friend requests from the oddest people. They tell me I am hot and they wanna chat. The person is 22 and I am way younger then them...It may just be spam or a person trying to get my attention. I just delete theses things because it's very dangerous. Facebook is safer but friend requests from weird people can be sent...a weird guy has talked to me and I was playing poker on facebook and he kept saying my name and asking me questions. I left the poker room because I knew he wasn't safe. Chatrooms are a certain stranger danger area...Did you know that in 20 minutes a person can find out your name, where you go to school and where you live? Just because of your profile on a chatroom (myspace too) Chatrooms are where people getting friendly and flirty especially on teenage chatrooms. Many stalkers and weird guys who are old and are rapists.

As you can see there are plenty of strangers and people that try to get to where you live. Thats why you should follow these steps.

1. Never except a persons friendship request if you dont know them.

2. Don't give away your personal infrormation to anyone you don't know and not even your friends. Text your friends or call them for info.

3. Never believe anything anyone says online because it's probably not tue.

4. Never meet anyone over the internet because you never know who they really are. Even with photos. They could have got them from google.

Remember to stay away from stranger danger,

Molly