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Chat Rooms What is a Chatroom? How many of you have used a chatroom? How many acronyms do you know? ALWZ Always F? Friends? ASAP As Soon As Possible F2F Face to face ASL Age, Sex, Location F2T Free to talk ATK At The Keyboard ATM At The Moment B4 Before FOMCL Fell out of my chair laughing FYEO For your eyes only GAL Get a life B4N Bye For Now GF Girlfriend BAK Back At Keyboard GG Good Game BBL Be Back Later BCNU Be Seeing You BF Boyfriend BFN/B4N Bye For Now BFz4evr Best Friends Forever BRB Be Right Back CU See You GR8 Great! H&K Hugs and kisses h2cus Hope to see you soon IAD8 It’s a date IDK I don’t know JK Just kidding KIT Keep in touch PLZ 4GV ME Please forgive me PRW Parents are watching PTB Please text back QT Cutie ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing ROFLOL Rolling on the floor laughing out loud RUOK Are you OK? SETE Smiling ear to ear STATS Your sex and age T2Go Time to go T2ul Talk to you later THX Thank you TTFN Ta-Ta for now TTYL Talk to you later U2 You too Arepairs In there discuss any others and complete that you use? as many of these acronymns as possible CU Soon See You Soon CU@ See You At CUL8R See You Later DK Don’t know E2eg Ear to ear grin EOD End of discussion EVRY1 Everyone KOTL Kiss on the lips LOL Laughing out loud LtsGt2gthr Lets get together lyN Lying MYOB Mind your own business NE1 Anyone O4U Only for you UI! You Idiot! W@ What WRU Where are you? WUF Where are you from? XO Kiss and a hug Sleeping (I’m tired, bored or ZZZZ annoyed) Why use chat rooms? What is so appealing about them? TASK Complete the task as if you were talking to someone in an internet chat room! Show your conversation to another pupil. How much personal information have you disclosed? Who do you talk to? Are you sure? Listen to the clips Discuss 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? The 8 users currently in a teen chat room: Guess the ASL of each user. good2hug: 16, female, Bangor joey16: 12, male, Holyhead hotlips38: robbieW: QTpie: sue1991: sian14: paperboy: 38, female, Manchester 28, male, Cardiff 30, male, Caernarfon 17, female, Caernarfon 14, female, Valley 41, male, Liverpool How accurate were you? What does a pedophile look like? LYING ON-LINE It 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. Watch the videos from www.thinkuknow.co.uk Claire thought she knew Tom’s story 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?? Where can I get help? Do you know who or where to go for help / information? WEBSITE: www.thinkuknow.co.uk Report Abuse SCHOOL CONTACT PERSON: __________________ PARENT / RESPONSIBLE ADULT 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 online behaviour, use the website below: www.thinkuknow.co.uk