Respect Yourself

The Respect Yourself public awareness campaign is designed to teach teens about the risks they face when sending pictures or videos by email, instant messaging or by posting them online. The campaign guides teens through the risks and provides them with safety strategies to help keep them safe.

Some key safety tips include:

• Once it's shared - there's no getting it back. While photos or videos can be deleted from the original site, there's no control of copies that have been forwarded, downloaded or reposted.
• Pay close attention to what's being shared. Visual clues such as identifying background items or things like team jerseys could be used by someone to try to track down a child.
• Think about the future. What is posted online today will be available on the Internet years from now - and employers use search engines to find current and past information on a candidate prior to hiring them.

This campaign was launched on Safer Internet Day 2009 - an internationally recognized day to promote the safe and responsible use of online and mobile technology. The Respect Yourself campaign includes a comprehensive website for teens, a Respect Yourself booklet and a series of three posters.

For more tips and other information, please visit the Respect Yourself website - www.cybertip.ca/respectyourself.

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