Online Grooming

_{What is online grooming?}

• When someone pretends to be someone they're not to form innapropriate relationships
• watching how to do you hair via online videos
• Not having your privacy settings on
• Making friends with people online

What are some signs of someone being groomed online

• Having a video uploaded of their friend doing their hair
• Secretive online, always wanting to be online, going to unusual meeting places,receiving gifts from unknown people.
• A social media post from a family member
• Getting a birthday present

Choose the top three ways to protect yourself from online grooming 

• 1. Don't make new friends
  2. Accept every friend request
  3. Make posts with private information
• 1. Have all of your social media accounts set to private
  2.Only accept friend requests from people you know
  3. Never share anything personal online
• 1. Don't use any form of internet interaction
  2. Never use social media
  3. Never talk to new people
• 1. Keep your social media accounts set to private
  2. Never talk to people
  3. Make social media posts which include private information

What are some things a Cyber Groomer will do?

• Manipulates child's thinking
• Asks innapropriate sexual questions
• Try to ruin friendships and family relationships
• All answers

How can you tell if someone might be experiencing cyber grooming?

• Being extremely secretive online
• Going to unusual places to "meet friends", receiving gifts from unknown people
• having lots of older friends, wanting to spend all their time online
• All of the answers

Signs someone is being abused

• withdrawn, anxious, depressed, behaving differently, Problem sleeping, soiling/ wetting bed, missing school, changed eating habbit
• Not sure what they want for dinner
• Cried once today because they didn't get what they wanted
• Looking happy and healthy all the time, always gets to see family members, speaks about their weekend all the time

Where can you get help?

• Parents, teachers, friends or someone you trust
• online helplines like blue knot, bravehearts, and S.A.R.A
• crimestoppers or police
• All of these answers

Which of the following is the best choice when it comes to posting photos?

• It's OK to post any photo as long as it is only for friends to see.
• Snapchat photos only stay for a short time, so it's OK to post photos there.
• Never post photos.
• Post only photos you would be OK with family members seeing.

Add anyone who sends a friend request. You want to the most followers.

• True
• False

Which of the following might be someone who is grooming you online.

• Is a person you play video games with.
• Tries to turn you against family/friends by listening when they don't.
• Someone you know telling you about a movie they saw.
• Someone who understands when you aren't available to chat.