June is officially Internet Safety Month and to celebrate bNetS@vvy is featuring weekly tips for parents, educators and students.  This week’s tips will showcase how your tweens can remain safe while sharing information online and how quickly information can spread in your personal life and the cyber world.

Sharing Information

• Before you post something online, think about the short and long term impact.
• Do not send or post anything online or by text that you do not want to be made public, as this information may be shared quickly and without your permission.
• Do not post your cell phone number or home phone number online.
• Online profiles and websites should not contain any personally identifiable information like your phone number, address, e-mail.
• Do not use your real name when creating screen names online.
• Do not forward any questionable information or images that you receive via text as you may be held legally responsible for doing so.
• Know how to report problems to a chat room moderator.
• Never meet someone offline that you only know through online conversations.
• Save copies of your online conversations.
• Never respond to text messages from someone you don’t know.
• Never let someone you don’t know use your cell phone.
• Before you discard of your phone make sure you remove all personal information.

Our 4NetSafety partner, NSTeens.org, is a resource of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and wants to help tweens understand how quickly and how widely information may be disseminated via online applications and cell phones with their newest video, “Mike-Tosis”. When children put personal or inappropriate information online, they run the risk of having it spread throughout their schools, communities, or even worldwide.  Share the “Mike-Tosis” video with a tween you know.

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2 Responses to “Internet Safety Month – Sharing Information”

1. teacher Mrs. C Says:
   June 11th, 2010 at 3:47 am

   Question/statement I get from students–If I use other made up name my friends can’t find me on facebook or myspace and it requires an e-mail–just like this site did too to ask this question. What should we do? Can you help me answer this to my students?

2. Jamila Boddie Says:
   June 18th, 2010 at 6:35 am

   We thank you for relying on us to provide you with insight on such a personal matter. Are your students afraid of supplying their e-mail address online? I’m not sure what the question is.

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