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 * The 4P's**

"Parents are most concerned about the 4P's - Privacy, Predators, Pornography, Pop-ups" (WiredKids, Inc., 2008).

What do the 4 P's mean?
 * Privacy - the number one thing you have to do when entering the World Wide Web is to keep yourself safe from the other P's by keeping your privacy safe. Do not give out your personal information (name, address, phone number, location, pictures, etc.) to anyone. "Anyone" can range from commercial websites trying to get you to buy something to hackers trying to get even more important info (credit card info) to predators intending to harm you.
 * Predators - Are we trying to tell you that if you share your name online that a stranger is going to show up at your door? Not necessarily. What we are trying to tell you is that predators come in many different forms. Predators can prey on your financial (or parents) somewhat privy information or can prey on you in particular, in the form of sexual harrassing or bullying. It is important that you look at the info under Cyberbullying and Internet Predators to keep you and others safe.
 * Pornography - this can go two ways (for more info check out Explicit Content and Viruses). You can go to the pornography or it can come to you. If you type in a particular keyword that may bring up pornography, then you are putting yourself in danger of seeing graphic images and/or setting your computer up for viruses. However, most pornography tends to come to you through email, pop-ups, and search engines.
 * Pop-ups - closely linked to pornography. Due to better virus protection, pop-ups are not as prevalent as before; however, pop-ups may still appear in your searches by clicking on a particular link. Did you deliberately want pop-ups with a graphic image to appear? Not necessarily, you may have no control over pop-ups interfering with your search. Just be careful in your internet searches!

[|Visit Child Exploitation Division to Report Suspicious Internet Behavior]

For more information (for parents and/or children): [|Watch "Cyber Security at Home" Video]

Worksheets: [|Chatting Safely] [|Emailing and IMing Safely] [|Playing It Safe with Cyberpals] [|Dealing with Online Bullies]