Internet Safety: Chat Room Example

1. Chat Rooms
By Mr. Kirsch
© Elyssa R. Taunee W.

2. Chat Room Dangers
• Video

3. Chat Room Safety Tips
• Live – can’t take it back
• Don’t
– give out personal information
– meet people in person
– share actual location or future plans
• Choose a nickname
• Creepy feeling – Block!
• Topic turns inappropriate – Log Out!

4. Girl, Interrupted
• Katie Tarbox – 8th Grader
• Met “Mark” in chat room
– 23 yr. old college student
• Made her feel loved
• Met him in person in hotel
• Frank 41 year old pedophile

5. Works Cited
"Chat Room Safety Tips." Connect Safely . Tech Parenting Group, 2011. Web.
17 Oct. 2011. http://www.connectsafely.org/Safety-Tips/chat-room-safety-tips.
html .
Gannett News Service, Karen Thomas. "Girlhood, Interrupted." USA Today 19
Apr. 2000: 1D+. SIRS Researcher. Web. 12 Oct. 2011.