Chat RoomsChat Rooms

How many acronyms do you know?

What is a chat room?

How many of you have used a chat room?

ALWZ F? PLZ 4GV

ME ASAP F2F PRW ASL F2T PTB ATK FOMCL QTATM FYEO ROFL

B4 GAL ROFLOL

B4N GF RUOK BAK GG SETE BBL GR8 STATS

BCNU H&K T2Go BF h2cus T2ul

BFN/B4N IAD8 THX BFz4evr IDK TTFN

BRB JK TTYL CU KIT U2

CU Soon KOTL UI! CU@ LOL W@

CUL8R LtsGt2gth

r WRU

DK lyN WUF E2eg MYOB XO

EOD NE1 ZZZZ

EVRY1 O4U

ALWZ Always F? Friends?PLZ 4GV

ME Please forgive me

ASAP As Soon As Possible F2F Face to face PRW Parents are watchingASL Age, Sex, Location F2T Free to talk PTB Please text backATK At The Keyboard FOMCL Fell out of my chair laughing QT CutieATM At The Moment FYEO For your eyes only ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing

B4 Before GAL Get a life ROFLOL Rolling on the floor laughing out loud

B4N Bye For Now GF Girlfriend RUOK Are you OK?BAK Back At Keyboard GG Good Game SETE Smiling ear to earBBL Be Back Later GR8 Great! STATS Your sex and age

BCNU Be Seeing You H&K Hugs and kisses T2Go Time to goBF Boyfriend h2cus Hope to see you soon T2ul Talk to you later

BFN/B4N Bye For Now IAD8 It’s a date THX Thank youBFz4evr Best Friends Forever IDK I don’t know TTFN Ta-Ta for now

BRB Be Right Back JK Just kidding TTYL Talk to you laterCU See You KIT Keep in touch U2 You too

CU Soon See You Soon KOTL Kiss on the lips UI! You Idiot!CU@ See You At LOL Laughing out loud W@ What

CUL8R See You LaterLtsGt2gth

r Lets get together WRU Where are you?

DK Don’t know lyN Lying WUF Where are you from?E2eg Ear to ear grin MYOB Mind your own business XO Kiss and a hug

EOD End of discussion NE1 Anyone ZZZZ Sleeping (I’m tired, bored or annoyed)

EVRY1 Everyone O4U Only for you

In pairs discuss and complete as many of these acronymns as possible

Are there any others that you use?

Why use chat rooms?Why use chat rooms?What is so appealing about them?What is so appealing about them?

TASKTASK

Complete the task as if you were talking to someone in an internet chat room!

Show your conversation to another pupil.Show your conversation to another pupil.

How much personal information have you disclosed?

How much personal information have you disclosed?

Who do you talk to?Who do you talk to?

Are you sure?Are you sure?Listen to the clipsDiscuss the reasons why she was attracted to meet the other person. What should she have done?

What did the person in the clip do to attract young girls?Do you think it works?

http://tcs.cybertipline.com/videos.htm

good2hug:

joey16:

hotlips38:

robbieW:

QTpie:

sue1991:

sian14:

paperboy:

The 8 users currently in a teen chat room:

16, female, Bangor

12, male, Holyhead

38, female, Manchester

28, male, Cardiff

30, male, Caernarfon

17, female, Caernarfon

14, female, Valley

41, male, Liverpool

Guess the ASL of each user.

How accurate were you?

What does a paedophile look like?What does a paedophile look like?

LYING ON-LINEIt can be easy to lie about your age and sex on-line. Never arrange to a face-to-face meeting with anyone you have met on-line unless you have an adult with you.

Claire thought

she knew

Tom’s story

Watch the videos from http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Questions based on the video

What was the appeal?

• Found somebody who was very alike

• Shared similar experiences

• Understood their problems

• Good looking

• Made them feel good, mature, attractive, important and cared about them!

Does this type of person really exist??

Do you know who or where to go for help / information?

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Where can I get help?

Not all persons on-line turn out as you would expect.

If the situation sounds too good to be true – it probably is!

If you need to report any inappropriate on-line behaviour, use the website below:

www.thinkuknow.co.uk