Communicating Online
The net is a great way to stay in touch with your friends when you can’t – or don’t want to! – catch up with them offline. It’s a lot less expensive than texting, and way easier than meeting up in person. You can even stay in touch if they move to a different school or city!
Communicating via your mobile
Communicating to make friends
Sometimes friendships can go bad, so you might need to know some stuff about what you can do if your online relationships take a turn for the worse. Click on the links below to read about some of the risks associated with hanging out with your mates online, and what you can do about them.
Some of the risks of chatting with your mates online are:
• being harassed
• leaving an inappropriate digital footprint
• having easy access to sexual content
• getting sucked into scams
• managing your time online
Have you also read how to:
• set up a safe personal profile?
• deal with text-bullying?
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