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Cyber
Safety
How safe are you on the Internet
We all like to spend time
on the Internet. It can be fun as well as informative. It also is a great way
for keeping in touch with our friends and relatives Making
Friends on the Internet
Face book, My Space, MSN Messenger are all very good sites
where we can chat with a variety of people, but are these people really who
they say they are? They seem to have the same interests as you do, around the
same age, same taste in music. You check their profile, it seems to be ok, it
has their name and how old they are, nothing too suspicious about them so you
give the ok to chat. You discuss school and which one you attend. You talk
about your other school friends who they are, and what they do. You also
discuss about where you and your friends hang out at weekends. It all seems
very innocent, BUT IS IT? Cyber
Space can be a dangerous place
You’re having a great time
chatting. Your friend seems to be a real fun kind of person. You have shared
lots of secrets you would have never told your friends at school. They
thought you looked real cool in the picture you sent them. DO YOU STILL THINK YOU ARE SAFE? |
WHAT HAVE YOU REALLY DONE???? You
check this person’s profile and found it to be no different to any of your
other friend’s profiles. Profiles do not really tell you anything about these people,
they only tell you what they want you to believe. When registering on these
sites or obtaining an email address, there is no way of proving your identity,
they can be 14 or 41 male or female there is no way of knowing, This person now knows
all about you, you even revealed your secrets, are thy going to be
broadcasted online or maybe all over your school, have you thought this
person might physically know you and not let on. You could be a target for
cyber Bullying. What of they were a predator, you may have put yourself in
grave danger, not only yourself, you revealed the names of your school
friends, where they went to school and where they hang out at weekends, they
to could be a target. Would you be easily recognised if they were to wait outside
your school gate, easily, they now have a real cool picture that you sent
them but, there is a very good chance that you will not recognise them |