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Live Streaming
Livestreaming is when you broadcast what you are doing live to a social network.  Anyone who is following you can see what you’re doing, and comment on your broadcast. ­­­­It is a good way to share important events with people who aren't there - for example a birthday but streaming your life comes with risks - see below. There are also risks watching live streams (click here for more on these)

Your location is shared
Some live streams identify where you are, your name, age and other personal information. This is not safe (click here to learn more on why it's not safe)

Online Grooming
You will be broadcasting to strangers, and as we know from other esafety topics some strangers have bad intentions. They could get in touch via the comments and over time use this to build a friendship (and more)  with you (online grooming). They could then encourage you to do things on camera, and some of them offer gifts or rewards when you do so. They may ask you to show a private part of your body, or perform a sexual act - and once you have done something you are ashamed of they may well blackmail you.
If someone is asking you to live stream and do things you don't want to do, report it to CEOP
Offensive comments
People will post rude, nasty and offensive comments on videos. These can be very upsetting, sepecially when they are all the time. You might think this is nothing to worry about but it is the reason that so many celebrities take down their social media.

Acting a certain way because you are live
You want to impress and make people laugh when you are live so they will come back and watch you again. This can create a lot of pressure on you to act a certain way and you might do things you wouldn't do just because you are live. This can lead to you physically hurting yourself or regretting doing something

All Text copyright Lakelands Academy & Mr T Purslow 2020.
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All Text copyright Lakelands Academy & Mr T Purslow 2020.  All images copyright free / creative commons unless otherwise stated. You are welcome to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-nonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
All Text copyright Lakelands Academy & Mr T Purslow 2020.  All images copyright free / creative commons unless otherwise stated. You are welcome to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-nonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
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