“Offenders are taking advantage of increasingly lonely and vulnerable children spending more time on sites monitored by fewer human moderators to act against the harm.”Īlongside a reduction in the number of human moderators responding to online abuses thanks to the pandemic, overdue updates to the sex education curriculum have also been delayed. “Lockdown has exacerbated the risk of online grooming and sexual abuse like never before,” says Andy Burrows, head of child safety online policy the NSPCC. Girls like Bijou are living the majority of their social lives digitally, and with an increase in screen time comes a greater risk of exploitation. Since lockdown started, 25 per cent of girls say they have experienced at least one form of abuse, bullying or sexual harassment online, while reports of revenge porn doubled in April, peaking over the Easter bank holiday weekend. In the coronavirus era, empowering teenagers online has grown even more urgent. If you talk to most girls my age, they probably would have been sent a dick pic without asking.” Boys would return messages with a picture of their abs and say ‘streak?’ They would want you to send a naked picture back. “When we were about 15, it changed quite a lot. You could say to your friends, oh I have a streak with them,” she says. If you are having a conversation with someone and they continuously reply to you, that makes a streak.
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“How many Snapchat streaks you have is part of how popular you are.
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