Safety on the net (concerned)

[sparebutton]

Originally Posted by fantastic-dancer

I have put my full name on here at first then my Mum found out and she went mad but Tamasine, Sweetpea and all the gang are all very helpful and let me change now to a username and I feel a lot safer. But if you have not given you name I do not think you should worry and if you have like I did my Mum always drops me there right to the door and my other dance friends Mum or Dad picks us up. But still my mum always warns me never to trust anyone and not to speak to strangers.

I am exactly the same i get dropped into the hall and have to wait there for my mam or dad to pick me up and like fantastic dancer am not allowed to talk to any strangers..it is getting to be a very unsafe world out there...

[Irishdancelover47]

It's such a shame that some bad people have ruined it for the majority of the good people.

[Reese]

Yes i was posting for everyone to read as well because there are also members a lot younger than me on here so it was a concern for everyone that comes on here. Thanks for the replys! x

[Len01182001]

That's why I put, "The best dance school ever!" because it really is!

[Heidegger]

I don't think having the name of my school on my profile is such a bad thing, but I've avoided putting it on the forum anyplace. Anything on the profile pages can only be seen by members, but anything posted on the forum is public. It can even come up on Google searches so literally anyone can see it.

[cameron.irishdancing]

Don't forget to read "safety online" (top right hand corner) for some more online safety tips.

Just to confirm - anything you post on someone's profile is private, but can be seen by another user that visits that page. If you send them a message, then it can only be seen by you and the person to whom you are sending a message.

If you post a comment on the forum, it can be picked up by google for their google search. (This is the same with any forum.) Once it is picked up, even if we delete your comment, some of it may still appear in their search, but they cannot come back and see the whole thing.

But - we do check the site on a very regular basis, and you may notice that sometimes we change or delete forum messages. If I (or a moderator) see(s) a message that I do not think you would want "public," I will change the wording and let you know.

In general - we discourage users from using their real names as their user names. I do not believe that you need to worry about using your school name, as there are many people at each school, and there are many schools that have similar names all over the world. Also, we watch who signs up, so that you should not need to ever worry.