Protect teens

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Protect teens

We love and celebrate teens for their youthful passion to bring change to the world. Building a Youtropolis city enlarges their visibility as a leader, but also provides a sanctuary in which to practice real change in collaborative communities.

Below are safety tips and resources we believe will help keep teens safe as they develop liberations skills and knowledge to improve their world through Youtropolis.

Be a teen liberator

If you're a teen, protecting yourself and others from bullying or social ostracizing is foremost in mind. Here are immediate actions you can take to ensure your safety.

Promote a safe social environment by watching out for each other.
Engage in powerful civic actions to empower yourself and uplift your peers. In the process, you'll gain valuable skills in social responsibility and collaboration.
Stop bullies in action by immediately flagging hostile or offensive content and reporting abuse.
Collaborate with other teens to form a strong safety net for the greater good. By doing so, you'll rise up with the moral determination and courage to end the culture of hostility online, or wherever it is encountered.

Lead, don't follow

You can’t protect yourself if you’re at the mercy of others, so to be in the safest zone, be your own leader and help other teens do the same.

Leaders follow their own intuition before putting blind faith in others.
Leaders protect their tribe by flagging offensive content, and removing offensive content posted into their Younited Front.
Leaders endeavor to create harmony within their tribe by resolving conflicts amicably.
Leaders reject hate in any form.

Be a social populist

Populate your city with people you know and trust.
Grow you population with those who inspire and uplift you.
Banish all evildoers.
Bow out of cities that are populated with hate-mongers. They are not safe.
Don’t share gossip. It’s worthless.
Be a responsible reporter by not sharing news stories that defame others or use heavy-handed scare tactics. Chances are they’re propaganda tools designed to mislead the reader. When in doubt, verify the accuracy of the story on a website like Snopes.

Be a conscientious objector

Stay safe and protect your reputation by conscientiously objecting to and reporting:

content that objectifies girls or women
images that portray graphic violence
people who purposefully shame, bully, or humiliate others
people who harass or stalk others

To learn more about protecting yourself online, here are some additional helpful resources:

StaySafeOnline

OnGuardOnline