(What should I do?) Internet & Phone Safety

You join a website with lots of cool games on it, but first you need to fill out your name, phone number and home address.

• Fill in with some fake details.

• Fill it in with your details.

• Don’t fill it in and tell an adult you trust.

Someone you don’t know has sent you a friend request.

• Ignore it and hope it doesn’t happen again.

• Tell an adult you trust.

• Accept it and look at their profile.

A page pops up saying, ‘You’ve won!’ and it tells you to click on it.

• Feel excited and click to see what you’ve won.

• Click on it and tell your friends.

• Don’t click on it and tell an adult..

Someone in a game wants to trade or borrow items. You are worried about whether to trust them or not.

• Trade your rare items with them and wait to see what they give you.

• Give them an item that you didn’t want anyway.

• Say, ‘No’.

Someone you’ve met in an online game asks which school you go to.

• Don’t tell them but tell an adult you trust that this has happened.

• Tell them because maybe they go to the same school.

• Say another school that you know.

You took some funny photos with your best friend. Later, you shared them with five other friends.

At school the next day, everyone is talking about

the photos and your best friend is cross with you.

• Tell your best friend you’re sorry and you won’t do it again.

• Tell a teacher at school or an adult as soon as you get home.

• Laugh with everyone else because the photos were funny.

Your best friend from swimming sends you a friend request online.

• Accept it.

• Ignore it.

• Say, ‘No,’ and block them.

Someone wants to play a game online with you and offers you lots of coins if you’ll play.

• Block them and tell a trusted adult.

• Reply and say, ‘Yes please’.

• Ignore the message and hope they’ll go away.

You have made friends online. The friend has asked you to send them a photo of yourself.

• Take a selfie and send it.

• Don’t send him anything, block him if he asks

  again and tell an adult.

• Ask your friend what to do.

Someone you don’t know has been sending you lots of nice messages.

• Tell an adult you trust.

• Ignore the messages.

• Reply to the messages to say, ‘Thank you’.