“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
— John Locke
(via fyp-philosophy)
“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”
— John Locke
(via fyp-philosophy)
If you are considering meeting up with someone online use this trick identify who really are who they claim to be:
1. Ask them to Skype
2. If they refuse or can’t for some reason ask for a current selfie
3. If they also refuse or can’t do not meet up with them
4. If they provide one ask them to send another with them holding 3 fingers up
5. If they refuse read step 3
6. If they provide a selfie where they show 3 fingers they are probably for real
(If you’re still unconvinced try again with them drawing something in their hand)
I SAY THIS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY
please spread this message as more and more young people are lured out into situations where they get kidnapped because they weren’t 100% sure the person they were talking to was real.
ALSO IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MAKE SURE YOU STATE THE FOLLOWING:
“My [fill in trusted adult here] wants to come too. [pronoun] said we can do our own thing and [pronoun] will just sort of grab [pronoun] own table, but I wanted to let you know. Hey, if you have an adult coming too they could sit together!”
If hearing this freaks the other person out and they decline, TERMINATE ALL CONTACT. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to block. I’m 26 years old and if you tell me you’re coming with a friend or parent for your own safety, I will automatically say “hey, cool. Y’know, if you’re nervous we can just do Starbucks or something, I’m okay meeting in a busy place. That way your [adult/friend] can hang out, too, and they don’t have to pay for [admission, a movie ticket, whatever].” Your safety and comfort is important to me, and is important to any good person you meet online who wants to meet up IRL. In the early 2000s when I first started seeing online safety PSAs, this was a widely-spread tip. Use it.
And for the record, you can use this over the age of 18, too. I still won’t meet people from online except in public places. You never know–that person holding up three fingers and drawing a Pokemon on their palm could be some pervert’s child, niece, nephew, family friend’s kid who was encouraged to take some silly pictures. Always voice-verify and always meet in public, with another person if possible.
Be smart and stay safe, kiddos. Nina loves you.
This is all so important for everyone and especially my younger followers.
Anyone who is being upfront with who they are and who you can trust will do whatever they need to do to make you and your parents/guardians comfortable. Hence why I am constantly requesting to too-busy-dancing13 to FaceTime her mom…
Please please please listen to this. Not everyone out there can be trusted.
Take care of yourselves, my friends
And don’t just use three finger selfies that’s used a lot. Mix it up ask for the person holding a fork or a paper with a certain word written on it. Stay safe ppl
Another important one I feel the need to mention cause it wasn’t covered; If you’re under 18 as well and the person advises against you talking about them to their parents or guardians, get the fuck out of there. They’ll try and convince you otherwise, but trust me; anyone who is against you telling your parents about them is bad fucking news.
These are all such important tips! Every time that this shows up on my dash, I reblog it because everyone should stay safe!!
that “you’re always invited” stuff doesn’t work for me you have to personally invite me or else I’ll feel like I’m showing up uninvited
Sounds like something a vampire would say
Little known fact that vampires have near crippling social anxiety.
It pains me that only 14,000 people can honestly reblog this
If you’re suffering from depression and are looking for a sign to not go through with ending your life, this is it. This is the sign. We care.
If you see this on your dash, reblog it. You could save a life.
it’s socially acceptable to publicly starve kids in the united states.
honestly i don’t even care if the kids parents are rich, you shouldn’t punish children for not being able to afford to eat when they have no ability or means to pay for such a thing on their own.
by withholding lunches and breakfasts over 2 dollar debts you are abusing a child. there’s no question about this. that is child abuse.
and say a parent is intentionally not paying these debts to abuse their child, the state is complicit with this abuse. the school systems are actually the means by which the parent does the abusing. under no argument can you defend this without accepting that you think child abuse is okay.
I started a petition about this, because my brother’s school was doing this, and in the state of Ky you’re TECHNICALLY not supposed to. You’re supposed to keep a tab and send it home as a bill if the student can’t pay. So to get around it, the school gave the kids who couldn’t pay peanut butter crackers instead of real food. Like they were technically still FEEDING them, but they had to straight up THROW THEIR TRAY AWAY and take the crackers at the end of the lunchline when they got to the cash register. They didn’t even take the food back. They made the kids throw it away.
I got so pissed off.
Not the kid’s fault, btw. It was almost exclusively kids who were neglected so bad their parents hadn’t filled out the paperwork for the free lunch program.
so we cannot even make the argument that schools simply cannot afford to feed these poor kids, they absolutely can, but instead of feeding these children they choose to throw their food into the garbage. There are no arguments to be made here. This is child abuse. I cannot say that enough.
America 100% has the ability and resources to feed all children (people of all ages, for that matter!)

