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[quote=Anonymous]My tween daughter has been playing Fortnite for a couple months. She accepted a friend requests from people she's played with in another Switch game. Having a stranger friend in this other game is really innocuous. There’s no chatting, no way to learn anything about the other players, and no real interaction except to join each other in matches. It was pretty safe and innocuous.

Fortnite is different. There’s text and voice chat, and in game it’s much easier to interact with each other. All of the players she friended in the other game automatically were added as friends in Fortnite. This one player started joining my daughter every time she played Fortnite. That was fun at first but became annoying when they joined her every single time she was in the lobby. We are always with her when she plays, and sometimes play with her as we have 2 consoles. So we see all the interaction. We don’t voice chat during the game, but we will get on voice chat briefly to let the other person know we’re going to stop playing or taking a break. So this player has heard my daughter talk, but has also heard my husband talk.

Anyway, this player started acting a little strange during matches. Nothing alarming, just odd behavior like shooting at her, running around instead of playing, or getting hurt on purpose so she’d have to revive them. But then last night she was playing and this person sends a lobby text chat message to her that they love her. Freaked me out. Freaked her out. I took a screen shot of the message. We had an extensive talk about online safety with her. We’ve talked about that plenty in the past, too. My daughter blocked this person. Tonight we're going to go through the friends lists and removed all people we don’t actually know. I’m going to turn off her voice chat as well for this game.

Anyone else have something like this happen? Anything else I should do?

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