Who doesn't know the Internet? I so do! I love every flashy thing you see there from the Monopoly game in monkeybartv.com to the blog I'm writing now to YouTube! Here are tips on how to be ISafe and ISmart:
Chat Rooms
You don't know some people there so do not give away your personal details. If it's a stranger in a chatroom, how could it be any different from a stranger in the street?
Do not participate in mean chatrooms. Be friendly. If they are older than you, you may ask politely to change the topic if they may want to.
Do not gossip. You may not know that maybe the person you're talking about is there with just a different user name.
E-mail
Do not give your friends your e-mail address and password. They may invade your privacy like look into your love letters to a special someone or maybe snoop in your spam and pretend to be you subscribing to a lot of website promos.
Do not subscribe to spam. You may be subscribing to a website with a virus or it sends you many e-mails telling you to subscribe to other promos in partnership with them.
Pop-Ups
Those annoying pop-ups that tell you that you've won a prize or you are the 154,000th person to see this pop-up, do not click on it. A virus may occur and will destroy your computer programs and leave a bug inside making it useless or it may also collect information about you. They may ask you for your e-mail address and contact details so they'll bombard you with spam. Remember: if you didn't join anything, you have not won anything.
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