Teen Chat

Teen Chat Safety

It is easy to remain anonymous on the web and this can encourage some people to make up things about themselves, even passing off someone else's face as their own. Sometimes people will give a false impression of themselves, either by exaggerating the truth or lying. A lot of the time you will instinctively know what another person is saying is odd or not quite right. This is your instinct, which acts as a self-defence, telling you something is wrong. It is important to trust these instincts and let your parent or carer know when you think something is wrong.

I'm smart enough to know when someone's pulling my leg - surely I'm not at risk? The people who abuse chatrooms can be quite convincing, tricking adults as well as teenagers. Without seeing a person we can never be sure they are what they say they are. This is why you should never arrange to meet someone you have chatted to on the internet without telling your parents, getting their permission and taking a responsible adult with you. Even then, your first meeting should always be in a public place.

Our chatroom application allows you to copy and paste text within the chat. If you can, click on the text you want to copy, right click then hit 'Copy Text' then paste it in the help chatroom, a moderator might not always be on hand to deal with the complaint but it will be looked into at a later date.

Offensive text, indecent conversations, persistant swearing and racial discriminative comments will result in the user being banned from the website for a minimum of 3 days depending on the logs we retrive of the reported conversations will determind how long the ban takes place.

Adults posing as minors, Trying to arrange meeting someone, Paedophile related activity will result in a permanent ban and the logs of the offense commited sent directly to your ISP (internet service provider) and the police, It's then a matter for the authorities to deal with.

Certain weblinks are acceptable such as a profile at myspace, facebook, bebo or other common social networks as long as they are not posted persistantly. You may not advertise an external service such as "hey, go to my site" "Check out this chat room" you will be shunned and banned immediately. We have IRC bots that trigger detection on a post so we know who is advertising what, where and when.

If a moderator catches you giving out personal information such as your phone number, address or anything that identifies you as an individual, you will be banned

NEVER under any circumstances click external links from the chatsite displayed in the chatroom even it's from a trusted source, even if it sounds great and something you could be really interested in like a new chat site or someones pics the chances are it's not that at all, some people make a living from doing this, getting people to click there links then taking control of there computers and extracting valuable information for credit cards, paypal account and more valuable services.

We aren't trying to take all the fun out of chatting, i know it's fun to exchange pics and talk to new people and in some cases even meet people you regularly chat to and consider as friend, but the dangers are very real. Please let your common sense guide you into a safe free chat experience with us, You can always ask one of our employee's a question If you are unsure about something. On the rooms tabs at the top left corner of the chat applet, click on Help and ask your question in that room.