- Never give out personal information such as your name, home address, school name, or telephone number. Never send a picture of yourself to someone without your parent's permission.
- Never write to someone who makes you feel uncomfortable or scared.
- Do not meet someone or have them visit you without the permission of your parents.
- Tell you parents immediately if you read anything on the Internet that makes you feel uncomfortable.
- Remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Someone who says that "she" is a "12-year-old-girl" could really be an older man.
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- Have clear, simple, easy-to-ready house rules posed near the monitor.
- Keep the computer in the family room or another open area of the home where it can be easily monitored.
- Talk to your children about not responding to offensive or dangerous email, chat or other communications. Report any such communications to local law enforcement.
- Do not delete the offensive or dangerous email; turn off the monitor and contact local law enforcement.
- Have children show you what they are doing online and visit their favorite sites.
- Be aware of other computers you children use.
- Talk to your children about what they should do if they see something that makes them feel uncomfortable.
- Internet accounts should be in the parent's name with the parent have the primary screen name and control the passwords.
- Consider installing filtering or monitoring software on your computer.
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