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Noah Gabranth
2/10 near Recolle
Given that the developers of this application seem wholly uninterested in filtering children and inexperienced users out of their testing pool, I thought it would be prudent to go over some basic rules for navigating social media safely.

1) Never disclose personally identifying information online. Ordinarily this would include one's full name, but Retrospec has made that a moot point by displaying it at all times. Nevertheless, it is important that you keep other information such as your date of birth, home address, and passwords to your online accounts a private matter.

2) Never post anything that you wouldn't want someone to see. You might think you can just delete it, but once something's on the Internet, it's effectively there forever for anyone and everyone to see. Think carefully before you post.

3) If someone on the Internet wishes to meet with you offline, never go alone. Ensure that you have someone with you, preferably a parent or other trusted adult, and ensure that you'll be meeting in a public, well-lit area in open view. Better yet, don't go at all, as not everyone on the Internet is really who they say they are.

If anyone has any additional safety pointers, you're welcome to add them to this post.

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Chloe Bouchard I suspect that these rules may be even more important than usual with this app, since it seems impossible to remove.
Chloe Bouchard And, if we consider that the strangeness that has been happening, with the horses and other matters only seems to happen to us...
Chloe Bouchard It is probably especially important to be careful.
Chloe Bouchard Of course, this applies to all ages, but especially the young.

[Admittedly, Chloe liked to think she could take care of herself, thank you very much and she wasn't as good about Rule #3 right now, especially because the only people who had seen the weirdness had this app. Hell, she'd gone out drinking with someone she'd just met on this.

Yeah, she was more of a 'do as I say, not as I do' sort when it came to this.]

Gentiana Illyria I see you're in better spirits today, Officer Gabranth.
Gentiana Illyria Has the investigation proven fruitless already?

Prompto Argentum what if we have already
Prompto Argentum done all three
Prompto Argentum HYPOTHETICALLY

Dante Rantanen thanks detective
Dante Rantanen i'm sure all these tips were very effective back in 2001

Jack Dawes and most importantly kids do NOT smoke crack with anyone you meet online
Jack Dawes if youre going to smoke crack then do it with a trusted friend

[ Someone might just be dicking around here. ]

Hitori Togusa Got confirmation that there's kids as young as 10 on here, Detective.
Hitori Togusa I think what makes me more angry is that there's not even an option to filter your posts. None that I've found.
Hitori Togusa So if anybody finds that, or Retrospec's suggestion box, let me know.

Ardyn Izunia This may fall under the "too little, too late" category.
Ardyn Izunia (As Prompto was kind enough to point out above.)

Yoon-sung Lee Most people should know this by now
Yoon-sung Lee But just so you know, this app doesn't need an internet connection to work
Yoon-sung Lee And the only people who can see it are those that are using it now
Yoon-sung Lee So it's less of a connection that spans over the world, but more of a connection that spans a small select group
Yoon-sung Lee A little like a group chat which, yes, some people might not be nice but the odds are not as high as it was if this connected to somewhere in China.

May Sfondi shared a photo.
2/10 near The Mayship

look out kids, its the mods!!!!

Keigo Higashino Thanks, dad.

Alice Penelope Drake I wasn't going to chime in originally, but I thought you deserved a genuine thank you for this post.
Alice Penelope Drake I'm a little disappointed more people can't accept good advice in the spirit in which it was intended.

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May Sfondi shared a photo. 2/10 near The Mayship
look out kids, its the mods!!!!