Internet Safety

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Internet Safety

• Staying Safe On-Line

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Internet safety

• Never arrange to meet anyone in person that you
  meet online
• Never give out personal information (such as your
  school, grade, address, phone number, and age)
• Things on the Internet are usually not what they
  seem.

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Food for thought

• A study conducted by the National Center for
  Missing and Exploited Children found that 1 in 4
  children between the ages of 10 and 17 have been
  exposed to unwanted sexual material online.

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Internet horror stories

• Eric Rice, 16 years old, lived in the small town
  of Muncie IN. At school, Eric was the focus of
  taunts from his peers. The one place he had to
  escape to was the Internet. He spent hours in
  chat-rooms where he made several friends. Eric
  made arrangements to meet one of them, a 15 year
  old girl, at a local restaurant without telling
  his parents. She turned out to be a 52 year old
  manwho seriously assaulted Eric.

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Internet horror stories

• Christina Long, 15, from Danbury CT. attended a
  private school. The 9th-grader made good grades,
  led the cheerleading squad and involved in church
  activities. On the Internet, she used provocative
  screen names.
• Christina was strangled by a 25 year-old man
  that she met the Internet and later decided to
  meet with personally.
• He confessed to the murder and led police to her
  body in a remote ravine in Greenwich.

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• We all know the Internet can be a fun place, but
  remember the it can also be a dangerous place.
  What sounds too good to be true, probably is.
  Use good judgment and never meet anyone in person
  that you have chatted with Online.

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• For more information on how to stay safe online,
  check out the Internet safety program at
  http//www.isafe.org