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Mostly when people are online, they tend to chat with their friends and family, and sometimes even strangers. They mostly pretend to be someone they are not, but mostly the other side also knows that.

Sometimes flirts are online in chat rooms and they don’t hesitate in giving their email addresses and asking others the same in return. Sometimes these people go as far as to exchange house addresses and phone numbers. I remember that in my early days of using internet, this person went as far as giving me his phone number and house address. i immediately signed off.

But not all times are bad, I mean, sometimes even you can fool those people. Like, the time when I was in a chat room and a person requested to chat. I agreed. After “Hello, hi” I asked him (or maybe her) about chat rules. This was meant to make a conversation. He/she gave me some excellent advice but also said “You know, It’s not that bad as to give ur phone no. or email id to people online, u can make some cool friends and share info” and I answered the person ” Yeah, and it ain’t bad to hack the other person’s comp, either. This way you can actually share info. I have your A.P no. mister.” that obviously scared the person, for he signed off at once. Don’t worry, I’m no hacker. I don’t even know how to hack!

But not always chatters are fraud. I mean, I have two cool friends and we became friends after we chat. But we don’t share personal information, just our public email addresses.

Basically, the thing is that you should be very clever and alert while chatting in chat rooms. Nobody knows the truth there. You don’t know whether the person you are talking to is fooling you or not. Whether they are telling you the truth or not.

Here are some tips which should keep you safe:

1. Never use your real name while chatting. Make a nickname and use that. You can use that nick anywhere. This way people will know that it’s you and they won’t have your personal info.
2. Never give out your asl (age/ sex/ land) info. that thing needs to be safe and secure.
3. Never give out your email address. Once a dishonest person’s got your email address, they can use it to harass or abuse you. If you are not sure, make a public email address. Give that.
4. Never believe a person in Chatrooms unless you are dead sure. If i tell you that I’m Emma Watson or Lindsay Lohan, or some millianaire, are you going to believe it?
5. If anyone tries to be flirty or abusing, report that person. If he/she is on your messenger, block him/her. Immediately.
6. If a person has got your email address, and he/she is abusing you, don’t answer. If the person bombards you with emails. Report that email address and change your email address, immediately. Who knows how many email addresses that person’s got? (Read rule#3)

Anyway, that’s for now.