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[quote=Anonymous]I would be very leery of this. I talk with my tween about only chatting on games with friends you know in person--how you know who they are, I will know the parents if there were a problem with bullying, and how unlikely it is that another student you know in person is chatting with you for a reason they aren't disclosing. I tell my tween that someone you don't know could be an adult. Could ask you for money. Could be sneakily testing you to see if you would be a good candidate for something dangerous or dark (we watch some Marvel comics on Netflix, so I usually use those story lines as examples, even though they are fake.)

Could he talk to someone he doesn't know? yes. Sometimes he is on with "friends of friends" which I'm not crazy about. But I think the important thing is to give your child the awareness that things are not always what they seem. One example which isn't sexual is this story: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/05/660642531/right-wing-hate-groups-are-recruiting-video-gamers

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