Build your personal safe-sharing plan

1. Pause rule
I count to five before pasting chats, photos, or emails.

2. Never-paste list
Passwords, home address, medical details, classmate photos, full group-chat dumps.

3. Default moves
Hide when possible → scrub when needed → ask a trusted adult when unsure or when school accounts are involved.

4. Redaction mini-method
Swap names, keep the writing problem, read once out loud.

5. Image rule
Crop or retype; no notification banners; no “allow all photos” unless an adult agrees.

6. Consent line
If it isn’t my story, I don’t share it without permission — or I share a no-name version.

7. Study workflow
Smallest stuck point → scrubbed input → teach-me prompt → verify with class materials.

8. Escalation
Health, safety, bullying, or danger → trusted adult first, not a chatbot.

Rewrite each line in your own words. Add one example from your real week (club chat, homework photo, sibling tablet). Share the plan with a parent or teacher if that helps you stick to it. Revisit after the first time you almost paste something sketchy — update the never-paste list.

This is literacy you can practice tonight: not fear of tools, but skillful sharing.

Plans die if they only exist as good intentions. Pick a low-stakes moment this week — caption help, tone help for a club email — and force every line of your plan to fire. Notice which line you wanted to skip. Strengthen that line with a concrete trigger (“if I see a phone number, I scrub before anything else”).

Update after near-misses. A near-miss is success if you learn. Add the new item to the never-paste list.

Optional: compare plans with a sibling or friend. Steal their best line. Privacy literacy spreads better as culture than as a lecture.

“I share the smallest true thing that still gets help — and never someone else’s story without consent.” If your detailed plan ever feels heavy, return to that sentence and rebuild from it.