Catfishing - a deceptive activity where a person creates a fake identity on a social networking service, usually targeting a specific victim for abuse or fraud. The practice may be used for financial gain, to compromise a victim in some way, or simply as forms of trolling or wish fulfillment, Cyberbullying - the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature, Sexting - defined as youth creating, sending or sharing nudes and/or videos with peers via the Internet and/or electronic devices (e.g., texting, messaging apps, social networking sites)., Online predators - individuals who commit sexual abuse that begins or takes place on the Internet. It doesn’t have to be in-person contact (explain that it can be done verbally over the internet. Typically an adult preying on a minor), Grooming - when someone builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a young person so they can manipulate and exploit them, Live streaming - this can be an appropriate use of the internet (e.g., showing off new items that you’ve bought), however, youth may live stream intimate acts and not understand others can capture a still image or video of them engaged in that activity, Sextortion - involves individuals who coerce youth into sending sexual images or engaging in sexual acts via camera-enabled devices and then blackmail them with the threat of distributing the sexual images/videos if they do not pay money or provide more sexual images/videos, Online luring - a situation where a person communicates with a young person through technology to convince the person to do inappropriate things, such as to create or send naked or sexual pictures or videos, Troll - a person who starts flame wars (abusive messages sent in an online forum) or intentionally upsets people on the Internet (e.g., posting something mean in a public forum), Blackmail/Extortion - making threats or being violent to get a person to do something such as paying them money or sending explicit pictures,

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