8 online danger tips By: kailee bariring

Dealing with cyber-bully When you are being bullied online you should keep cool and try not to respond to a cruel email or message. Bullies want you to respond back, so you play the game. its good if you don’t respond because the bully might stop. If they keep bullying you then shut them out by blocking their email, screen name, telephone number or any social media. Don’t let the bully have access to you. Tell the bully to stop, confidently and strongly, if you would, talk to the bully face to face then it would probably help it you take your friends for support.

Don’t be a bully Think before you type, if you know that the person you are texting or messaging is going to feel bad then don’t send the message even you could get in trouble Focus on what the other persons feeling. They might already are getting bullied. You should know that this person is also getting hurt. Think about it, if someone was bullying you then how would you feel? Be mindful about yourself and other people. When there is someone you know that is getting cyber bullied but their not speaking up to tell anyone then you should help them tell someone they’re comfortable telling. If they don’t tell anyone then the bully will just continue to bully them.

Stay out of stranger danger Be private and never give out your address, telephone number or school name to anyone you don’t know or even a person you know that you cant trust. Stay in charge of your chats and don’t let the people in your chat push you around or tell you to do things that you know that is bad or something your not suppose to do. Don’t send or post anything online that someone wouldn’t like. Once you post or send something in cyber space then you are no longer in control because anyone can change it or save it.

Protecting your identity When protecting your identity you should use complicated passwords on your account because when you have easy and short passwords then it will be easier for someone to hack or login to your account. Use long and complicated passwords you know someone wouldn’t really guess. Read what your downloading and don’t click on random links because when you don’t know what your downloading or clicking it could damage your computer and spy on your files , it could be important with some your identity and personal information in those files

Cyber sense Download with care, if just download random and unknown app your unfamiliar with then that could come with a virus that could infect your computer. Think about clicking unknown links, when you click on random links that could automatically download software on to your computer and damage your computer. Take out the emails from people you don’t know . If you open emails that you don’t know then it could be ads or spam messages. They could also have ads that are carrying viruses.

Call for help When you or someone else is getting bullied online you have to tell someone like a trusted adult or someone you know you that you could tell right away. When you get a hurtful, mean email or message keep a record of it on a file then keep a record of it to show evidence that you have been bullied to an adult. If you don’t tell an adult you are getting bullied it might just get worse because the knows that your to afraid to tell that you are getting bullied, so the bully will continue and won’t stop.

Common types of bullying Flaming – posting nasty messages and pictures of him or her online. Harassment – sending continuous hurtful messages to a person Impersonation – pretending to be someone else for them to post a hurtful message or picture so that it makes him or her look bad. Outing – making someone's information that is private and making it into public information by posting it on the internet. Gossip – posting or sending a rumor about someone to another person to another.