We had an internet safety assembly and well...

[Zanaran2]

There was this old saying I knew, that you could have lifeguards, fences, and pool floaties to keep your child safe at the pool, but the best possible way to keep your kid safe is to teach him how to swim.

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[Electrk]

The internet is evil and anyone who associates with it is a cretin

REPENT!

[Titanium Man]

lol our teacher wanted to show us a fragment of a movie a few years ago, but she couldn't because it was 6th grade, and everyone was 12 but the movie was pg-13
jesus lol
so overprotective

[Nickelob Ultra]

why do schools blow this stuff out of proportion so much

Propaganda, really.

Everything is just an attempt to control the masses more and more.

Teachers can go forget themselves. honestly. I mean c'mon I've been on facebook since 2009 and I had no issues with anything. Deactivated it this year

they're doing the right thing, there's no question about it.  because a lot of kids are loving morons and do whatever the forget on the internet because their parents are equally loving morons and don't do stuff to teach their kids how to use the internet properly and safely (mostly because they didn't get that education either).

this stuff is necessary for the common child.  any child who has any form of proper sense of using the internet safely will be fine.

[Nal]

they're doing the right thing, there's no question about it.  because a lot of kids are loving morons and do whatever the forget on the internet because their parents are equally loving morons and don't do stuff to teach their kids how to use the internet properly and safely (mostly because they didn't get that education either).

It's their fault for not using common sense.

[Linkusofepica]

lol our teacher wanted to show us a fragment of a movie a few years ago, but she couldn't because it was 6th grade, and everyone was 12 but the movie was pg-13
jesus lol
so overprotective

I thought PG-13 was just a joke.

[{Pacnet2013}]

Instead of making up these stupid things they call "rules" (many of these people don't know the internet as much as we do) they should actually get rid of all these pointless assemblies and make more useful ones.

Amanda Todd created a problem for herself and flashed herself on camera and agreed to do what she was asked to do, so that's her problem and not anything you can reference in some "internet safety" assembly made by people who don't understand the internet.

Someone scaring you by trying to force you means nothing. Just block him or her and move on. You don't have to get all "oooh he's going to hunt me and kill me" because of that. Seriously. They can't locate you exactly even if they got an IP.

Someone like me is hated... so what? Just move on, it shouldn't matter if people using the internet hate you or not.

[ResonKinetic]

this stuff is necessary for the common child.  any child who has any form of proper sense of using the internet safely will be fine.

Well maybe we wouldn't have these problems if we taught the common child how to use proper, common sense.

[Nickelob Ultra]

It's their fault for not using common sense.

Well maybe we wouldn't have these problems if we taught the common child how to use proper, common sense.

well gee wouldn't that be so forgetin easy

just make every kid who is a moron, not a moron!!!  god why didn't i think of that.

[Harm94]

The only way to protect your kids is to not shelter them. Honestly a lot of those Self Deletes that kids commit could have been avoided if they were taught how to use common sense.  Post stuff of you doing stupid stuff and people make fun of it then you were asking for it. Same logic applies young people, if your gay whatever; but if you throw it out there on facebook and someone picks on for your loveual orientation. Your fault, keep anything that could get in trouble or used against confidential and off the internet.

[Jairo]

Honestly a lot of those Self Deletes that kids commit could have been avoided if they were taught how to use common.

"dad teach me how common"
"no"
"ok dad i am kill"

[ResonKinetic]

well gee wouldn't that be so forgetin easy

just make every kid who is a moron, not a moron!!!  god why didn't i think of that.

Honestly, it really is that easy.

In fact, everything that everyone has been saying in this entire thread is proof of how easy it is.

[Waru]

"dad teach me how common"
"no"
"ok dad i am kill"

rip

[Alyx Vance]

"dad teach me how common"
"no"
"ok dad i am kill"

lol'd

But seriously, people need to learn to use common sense.

[Subpixel]

One time my teacher was lazy and showing us educational videos on YouTube (without watching them beforehand of course, why would you do that?), and one of the videos was research.