It uses are cautioned that parents, children not too many trips abroad.
“Today, tourism in your bedroom on your computer,” Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum told more than 300 sixth-grader Stuart Middle School on Wednesday afternoon.
“It is important that every child and adult knows, how can you protect yourself on the Internet,” said McCollum, who is also intended to students at Port Manatee Academy St. Lucia Wednesday morning.
The visits were part McCollum’s Cyber Safety program in which he and his team have, with more than 50000 students from countries on how to protect themselves against Internet fraudsters.
“Nobody should never tell you not to the Internet,” said McCollum Near Stuart students.
The key, to be sure, he said: Do not give out personal information or awkward or risk of online booking photos. The image is not really more to disappear, “even after the removal, McCollum said.
In February, a woman named Martin County Sheriff’s Office, to their daughter 13 years to find nude pictures of herself and a friend on the Internet. The friend said that she had an image for an old friend who submitted it to another person, “punishment” as a page on MySpace.
McCollum also to avoid students, with a screen-Chat Room name that could reveal personal information, such as, for example, the school he or she attends, or to draw the interest of predators. A cat JAXbadby16 names such as, for example, could generate interest from a search of paedophiles for boys, he said.
About 77 million children use the Internet, and so many as one in five people in Florida is an urgent need for sex, McCollum said. He encouraged the students to share what they know about Internet safety with their friends and relatives who do not know perhaps, the online discussion, such as language “a / s / l” (abbreviation ‘age, sex, location “) And LMIRL (” Let’s meet in real life “).
Although the Network of Web sites like MySpace, users under 14 profiles to create a large number of users is much younger. The Middle Stuart, about half of the 300 sixth graders raised his hands, so the question of whether access to a MySpace page.
McCollum warned that even though their profiles are designed closet, predators can hack it, so that users should avoid sending personal data.
Many students, they already knew the dangers on the Web and what they can be avoided.
“The computer is the basis of technology that are now,” said 12-year-old Stephanie Haley, who regularly uses the Internet at school to work. She said that the plans for the prevention of sites like MySpace and Facebook, even if older.
“You better not do,” she says, “because if you are going, something bad might happen.”
