At National Online Safety, we provide multi-award-winning online safety education for the whole school community. It’s our mission to make the internet a safer place for children. We believe that when children go online to learn, communicate or play, they should be able to do so safely. That’s why we provide schools all over the world with the knowledge they need in order to tackle new and evolving online risks.
Online Relationships Explained
Making connections online with people who we don't know in 'real' life can be fraught with risk - particularly for young people, and especially if the relationship begins to develop into something beyond a friendship. This bite-size video will quickly bring you up to speed on the often complex subject of online relationships.
Whatever our interests, it’s overwhelmingly likely that –
out there on the internet – we’ll eventually run into someone who’s just as passionate
about the same things. Digital friendships often begin as short interactions on
a forum, on networking platforms or through in-game chat. If things go well, they might
progress to messaging each other directly – perhaps sharing mobile numbers and following
each other’s social accounts. If we only know someone through the online world,
however, do we actually know them at all? Our explainer video examines the basics of online relationships.
