INTERNET SAFETY

Safety Overview

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Sexting

Cyber Bullying

Social Networking

Mobile Devices

Gaming

Indicators of Online Abuse

Behavioral changes that occur with online exploitation:

• Change in personality
• Change in or loss of friends
• Sudden drop in grades
• Becoming more secretive: Minimizing the screen when someone else enters the room, maintaining multiple email accounts, spending time online away from home in addition to/instead of at home, spending all day/night online
• Unexplained gifts/money: Can include online gifting such as music downloads, game subscriptions, enhanced or continued online access, and cell phones/minutes, webcams and digital cameras.

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