DD has a nice group.of friends she plays Minecraft with online. I know them all in real life.
However I've just discovered that in the last couple of months she's stopped playing with them and now has a group of online friends she doesn't know in real life, and which includes a 19 year old, 16 year olds and 15 year olds - all male. She has her own Minecraft server I think and it looks like that's where these people have come from.
She's been lying to me about their names, their age and where they live (pretending they're all one person she knows in real life who is 14),
Besides the 19 year old, I'm relieved to see most of the conversation is related to the game and general chit chat, nothing obviously dodgy. The conversation with the 19 year old is totally inappropriate, although I think it mostly went over her head.
Also, she's "acting up" trying to act older than her age to impress them, which is worrying.
My biggest issue is the lying, and that she plainly doesn't understand the risks.
I've taken her phone and laptop off her, and she's not getting them back for the foreseeable.
But what now? I don't want to just tell her off. This is too serious.
It's about her keeping safe, and she's obviously been stringing us along every bloody time we've had a conversation about this stuff and doesn't get it all.
I need her to really understand for herself why this isn't on. Is it realistic to think that might be possible? What now? WWYD?