Communicating with new friends
Making friends and hanging out with them online is the whole point of a lot of websites that are on the net. There’s scope to connect with a whole lot of people from all over the world when you’re on social networking sites like Bebo and MySpace. Never has the world been so literally at your fingertips as when you’re online!
Just like in the offline world, not everyone you meet online is going to end up being your bff. While most people are online to chat and have a good time, some people are there for other reasons. You’ve probably already got some ideas about how to tell the difference and screen out the suss people, but you might not know all of the risks that meeting up online can bring, and how to avoid them. Check out the links below for more info.
Some of the risks of making new friends online are:
• being harassed
• leaving an inappropriate ‘digital footprint’
• coming into contact with illegal or age restricted pornography
• getting sucked into scams
• managing your time online
Have you also read how to:
• make the right kinds of online friends?
• meet online friends face-to-face?
• set up a safe personal profile?
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