Online safety

You receive a message from a school friend asking for the phone number of another friend you both have. What do you do?

• Message back straight away with the telephone number. You’re all friends so there’s no problem here.

• Check with your other friend first, to make sure they’re happy for you to share their telephone number with B this person.

• Apologise and say that you can’t send them the telephone number because you don’t want to share C someone else’s personal information.

There’s an exciting new game that lots of your friends have started playing but it’s rated for ages 18+. You’re visiting a friend when they ask if you want to play it. What do you do?

• Suggest holding off until next time you visit, so you can ask your parents first.

• Say no, thank you. The age limit is there for a reason and it would break the law to play it.

• Say yes and grab a controller. You can’t play it at home but this way your parents will never know.

You’re signing up to the website of a new game. The form asks for the following details: Full name, email address, home address, telephone number. What do you do?

• Give them all the details. Companies and organisations can always be trusted to look after their customer’s A personal information.

• Report the game – personal information should be kept private and secure.

• Check the webpage for further details about why they need the information or ask an adult to help.

Your Mum has given you permission to borrow her phone to use your favourite app. Whilst you’re using the phone, a notification pops up showing your Mum has received a new message – and it looks like it’s about you. What do you do?

• Hand the phone back to your Mum – it’s her phone so the notification is for her, not you

• Open the notification to read the message with your name in. It’s about you, so you should be allowed to B read it

• Exit the app and open your Mum’s messages. If there’s one message about you, there might be more and C you have a right to know what they say

You’re hanging out with several friends at your house, having fun and taking photos. You and your best friend love one of the photos and want to share it online, but another friend is less pleased with it. What do you do?

• Share the photo anyway. There’s two votes for sharing it and only one for not.

• Don’t share the photo. Being a good friend means asking for consent and thinking about how your actions B will impact other people.

• Try to convince your friend who doesn’t like it to change their mind. If you can get them to agree then it’s C fine to post it.

You’ve been given permission to download a new game on a device shared by your family. After the download has completed a pop-up appears asking if the game can access the device’s camera, files and location. What do you do?

• A Say yes for all of them and get started playing the game.

• Select ‘no’ for now so you can play the game and see whether it works without access to the camera, files B and location information.

• Select ‘no’ for now so you can check with the other people who use the device and decide whether the C game needs to receive that information or not

Your friend sends you a message making a rude comment about another friend. You disagree with the comment and want to stand up for your friend. What do you do?

• Screenshot the comment and send it to the person it was about. They have a right to know when A someone’s being mean about them behind their back.

• Reply to your friend’s message saying that you disagree and reminding them that a good friend wouldn’t B say those kind of things in the first place.

• Screenshot the comment and post it publicly online so that the friend who sent it learns not to send those C kind of messages.

. You’re part of a big group chat on a messaging app where people share lots of funny photos. Your friend from school loves funny photos and you think they’d enjoy being in the group. What do you do?

• Add them to the group as a surprise so they can see the photos

• Ask them in school if they’d like to be part of the group, then add them if they say yes.

• Share the photos in your private chat with your friend and get all the credit for finding them.

You’re doing a school project on poetry and find a poem online that you really like. You want to use it in your project. What do you do?

• Add the poem to the project and pretend you wrote it yourself

• Message the poet asking permission to use it in your project but give up when they don’t reply

• Use the poem in the project but make sure you include the name of the person who wrote it and even C include a link to the webpage where you found it.

Last time your friend was round you recorded a video of you singing together. You both agreed that you could post it online. When they next come round you record another singing video and you want to post it online again. What do you do?

• Check with them whether you’re allowed to post this video online too.

• Post the video online without checking. They said yes last time, so it’ll be the same for this one.

• It’s your video so it doesn’t matter what they think, you’ll post it anyway