Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online

Would you ever walk into a giant arena full of strangers and make it rain postcards with your phone number and home address? No? Then what are you doing publishing those details online, where anyone in the WORLD can access them? It's easy to forget that the information we put on social media is visible not only to our actual social circles, but to our friends' friends and their friends' friends...and that creepy guy halfway across the world who you've never met. So, today we break down the importance of setting strict privacy settings, choosing strong passwords and other steps you can take to ensure you stay safe online. Good news! Internet safety is easier than you think.

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[viphark]

This is free promotion. Because students have to watch this video for school.

[AreosOriginal]

"there is a 100% chance you are using the internet"
NASA: YOU WANNA WORK FOR NASA

[cristelmejia]

Who is here because of online school that our teacher on Google classroom linked . 😂🙋🏻‍♀️

[jobuuumajors]

I changed all my passwords to Incorrect. So whenever I forgot it will say: "Your password is Incorrect."

[Player-kgds]

This video: *exists*

Online teachers and Webinars: *I can MILK you*

[yourfavoritemagicaltrashca]

I love this video. It approaches this matter in a calm, yet humorous way, without the added feeling that most videos about this topic give of fear, dread and horror.

[BadHombreDaniel]

The most popular password should be "unpredictable "

[VeevKarenina]

"Roughly HALF of them post personal information"
Correction:
Roughly HALF of them are idiots :3

[cabbage]

What if somebody is "watching" this from a bunch of frame by frame printouts?

[GoldenTV]

Internet Safety
Step 1. Have common sense.
Step 2. Get a vpn.

[mlpchickennuggets]

this is a personal info: I have hairs on my head

[sharcc]

"Maybe bing will make a comeback"

that aged like milk.

[Charlie-cicb]

my teacher made us watch this in class and my gay friend got hyped up at the end when it said "coming out" and we were all laughing at the part were it said "inside puberty" 😂😂😂

[campbellw-s]

They say that password was the most popular password of 2012.







*BUT HOW DID THEY GET THAT INFORMATION?*

[reverseshotgun]

593 people used the password: unpredictable after see this.

[mikasashanigua-san]

Remember how your parents told you to not accept a ride from a stranger?

n..no...

Or to accept calls from strangers?

:(

[theodoresalazar]

this video helped my class with a lesson on staying safe on the internet

[pancake_bananaz]

my computer science teacher used this video in our lesson today.

[kristopherwood]

the most popular password should be *incorrect*

[dhddyjyjejejyjeyj]

Umm your wrong im watching this video on HD VHS tape.