In the first part of our rundown of online safety, we talked about being careful when chatting online, posting pictures, and creating profiles. The rest of our advice from airG follows below:

—Respect your friends’ privacy. Be as careful sharing information about your friends as you would be sharing your own, and be particularly cautious when chatting about them with strangers.

—Think twice before posting online messages. The things you say can stay online forever, even if you try to take them down. So be careful and always ask yourself whether what you are about to post could come back to haunt you.

—Beware of strangers. You should treat strangers who approach you on the Internet or through a mobile application with as much caution as you would if they approached you in real life. In particular, resist invitations to meet offline and report harassment or bullying.

About airG:

airG, Inc., runs a popular mobile service for social entertainment. The company has been a partner of Telstra, a leader in information services and telecommunications in Australia, since 2002.