1) Establish guidelines for Internet use with your parents or another adult. Before you go online, decide how much time is okay for you to spend on the Internet each day and figure out what you can and cannot do. After you get more familiar with the Internet, you and your parents can talk again and change the guidelines. Post them next to the computer for easy reference.
2) Don't share your password with anyone else.
3) Before you share any information about yourself on the Internet, get your parents' permission.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) Don't give out your credit card number (or anyone else's) without permission from a parent.
7) Never give out your home address over the Internet.
8) Don't open files or e-mail from someone you don't know. You don't know what might be inside—the files could contain a computer virus or offensive material
9) Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet in person without your parents' permission. You should never meet someone you met online alone. If you do set up a meeting with an online friend, meet in a public place and go with your parent or guardian.
10) Talk to your parents (or your teacher or another adult) about the kinds of places you go and things you do and see when you are online.
11) The "off" button is always there. Use it if you need to. You don't have to stay online if you don't want to.
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