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Adam and Jamie are the library legend muscles for Harris County Public library. In this episode, the library legend busters will test five. Internet legends are first net legend is that everyone you meet online is who they say they are. In this experiment. I'm gonna create a

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fake account under the name Rocky 58. Among my favorite game site, squirrel craft. The ultimate battle for Acorns. Hey look this new kid named Rocky 58 has just challenged me. He took away all my acorns. God, Rocky 58 was actually me. I created a fake account

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and challenged you. So it was real easy for you to create a fake account and pretend to be someone else. There's no way of knowing who you're talking to you because all you can see is the information the person chooses to share. Got it. Now that

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we busted that legend, can I have all my acorns now. Our next net legend is that if something happens online that you think is weird or creepy, you should just forget about it and not tell your parents this is an experiment really. It's a story of

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what can happen to anybody. We are all on the social networking site, a social networking site. It's a web site like my face. You know the one where you can post your pictures and then you can comment on other people's pages. Oh, I get it. One

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day we were on my face and we got comments from this company offering us free mp three players. If we just send them our full name phone number and the city we live in Jamie thought it was weird and decided not to tell her parents about

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it. But I told my parents about it, whatever. Oh well, okay. We both told our parents, it turns out it was a total scam. There was this one kid that got the same email that we got And he decided to send his name and all that

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other info. And the next day a total stranger stopped by a school and tried to give him a ride home. So there you have it. I saw something weird online and I told my parents, I mean he's one of our parents about it are 13 a

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legend. Is that any info you put online about yourself is safe. Once you log off the computer, I'm going to one of my favorite sites to chat a bit and then log off. Like the legend suggests there. Now I don't belong on from another computer and

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see if you can still see what I wrote and there it is for the whole world to see. We've just busted this legend. Remember once it's on the net, you can't get it off. And our fourth net legend, the team will test of clicking on strange

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links. Does any harm? I've created a website with bank links for Adam. Mm I'm bored. I think I'll check out this man. What's up with this website? Anything you see on the screen is based on coats underneath that you can't see. Oh snap. So when I'm

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clicking around it could take me anywhere. Right? So that the engine is busted. We'll put our legend busters to one final test. Unfortunately, testing this legend isn't practical because there's no samples of an exploding computer virus, but we can test whether a power surge could cause

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an explosion. All we have to do is crank up the juice, wow, that was weak. Yeah, we can't end a legend busters episode without an explosion. Give us in time and we can fix that while the team goes to work, let's fire off a few tips

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for your parents and guardians. Hey piers, here's some things you can try at home tip number one be involved even if you're unfamiliar with the internet, ask your Children to show you what they like to do tim number to be careful that you do not post

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identifying information about your Children tip number three. Be aware if someone online does harass your Children, you can report them to your local authorities and parents. If the incident involves sexual content, you can also report them to www dot cyber tip line dot com. Now back

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to the legend of the virus that blew up my computer so I couldn't finish my homework. This legend is totally busted back to getting votes to eat it, but we still have to end the show with a bang. So we've hired a demolition expert to help

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us. What's up money? Pete from Pete's Pizza Empire techniques? I found them online. He threw in the three pieces with the deal. Remember kids? If something looks too good to be true online? It probably is. What some Pete. How does this go down? What little dude?

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This is how it's gonna go down. I'm gonna press this red button and you're gonna run and take cover. All right, Yeah. Where's the monitor go up there, man, That isn't safe?