10 more ways

1. Double-check the URL (the address of the Web site) before hitting the Enter key. Make sure the spelling is right. This will help ensure you go to the site you want, and not some other place.
2. Check with your parents or another adult you trust before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and different types of people going to them. You and your parents want to make sure it is an appropriate place for you before you enter.
3. If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or a teacher right away.
4. Never send a picture of yourself (or anything else) to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it is okay.
5. If you receive unwanted, offensive, mean, threatening, or harassing e-mail, do not respond to it. Tell your parents or another adult right away.
6. Remember: not everything you read on the Internet is true.
7. Don't give out your age without checking with your parents first.
8. Never give out your full name (first and last). Don't give out your first name without checking with your parents or another adult first.
9. Never give out your home address over the Internet.
10. Ask your parents or an adult before signing up for anything online.