The mobile Internet can be a fantastic tool for work as well as a fascinating place to play, but it can also be dangerous, particularly for kids. We recently got the following online safety advice from representatives of airG, Inc., one of the world’s top destinations for mobile social entertainment and a partner of Australian telecommunications company Telstra.

—Limit sharing of personal information when chatting. In addition to withholding your home address, avoid disclosing your full name, your work address, your e-mail address, or your phone number when chatting. Each of those identifiers can be used to determine where you live.

—Be cautious when creating online profiles. The information you share through online profiles can quickly pass beyond your control. Be careful in choosing what information to upload and with whom to share it.

—Think twice before posting photos. Photos can be a particularly damaging form of information to have fall into the wrong hands. Make sure that any photo you post is one you would be comfortable with anyone seeing.

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.