• With sex

    Strategies and advice to help your teen stay safe if they do choose to have sex at Schoolies.

  • With social media and privacy

    Advice on how your teen can keep themselves safe whilst using social media.

  • When drinking

    Tips and advice to help your teen stay safe whilst drinking during Schoolies.

  • Around drugs

    Tips and advice to help your teen safe around drugs at Schoolies.

  • Out and about

    Tips and advice to help keep your teen safe when out and about during Schoolies.

  • Accommodation

    Tips and advice to help keep your teen safe in their Schoolies accommodation.

  • During schoolies

    Ways to stay connected and support your teen during Schoolies.

If it didn’t happen on social media, it didn’t happen right?! With social media being such an important way for teen’s to socialise and feel connected in the modern world, it’s only natural that they may want to share their entire Schoolies experience online. Leading up to Schoolies, make time to share some tips on how your teen can keep themselves safe whilst using social media.

Top ten discussion points for staying safe with social media at Schoolies:

  1. Don’t let a photo or video ruin a future. What can start out as a bit of fun may end up being viewed by a wider audience than originally planned including family, media and even future employers.
  2. Set profiles to ‘private’ or ‘friends only’ and only accept friend requests from people you know and trust
  3. Set an agreement with friends that consent must be given by all parties before uploading and/or tagging a photos and videos
  4. Set privacy settings to allow you to review photo tags before they appear on your profile and your friends’ newsfeeds.
  5. Think before you share – would they be okay if a future employer saw the post
  6. Be a good friend and don’t share embarrassing photos of friends online. In an embarrassing situation, a real friend would help their friend, rather than photographing it
  7. Remember that you can be filmed or photographed at any time. Schoolies have been charged after their stupid behaviour was caught on camera, so be responsible and aware.
  8. Filming crimes or assaults to promote online could see your teen facing charges, heavy fines or a criminal conviction.
  9. Sending a sext to someone who does not wish to receive it is illegal. If a sext makes your teen feel uncomfortable, advise them to contact the local Police station (do not delete the images).
  10. Image-based abuse (revenge porn) is when intimate, nude or sexual images are distributed without the consent of those pictured. Image-based abuse is never okay and if your teen witnesses or is personally affected, it should be reported to either the Police or via the eSafety Commissioner

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    Image-based abuse (revenge porn) occurs when intimate, nude or sexual images are distributed without the consent of those pictured. This includes real, altered (e.g. Photoshopped) and drawn pictures and videos.

    Image-based abuse (revenge porn) occurs when intimate, nude or sexual images are distributed without the consent of those pictured. This includes real, altered (e.g. Photoshopped) and drawn pictures and videos.

For more information, check out the ThinkUKnow or eSafety Commissioner websites for more information.