What actually stays private?
Your phone is always with you, and so are the group chat, the story, yesterday's photo. This is about what happens online, what it does to people offline and how you decide for yourself what you share.
A heart next to two names takes a second to post. You can't take it back.
Read and no reply usually means: busy right now. Your head turns it into a story anyway.
Whatever you forward becomes a little bit yours too.
Between the chat and the schoolyard
A sentence in a chat sounds different from the same sentence said to your face. Misunderstandings happen faster, and so do rumors. That's no reason to throw your phone away, but it's a good reason to think for a second before you type.
Your pictures, your call
Photos of you belong to you. Photos of other people belong to them too. Asking before you post is never wrong. If someone posts you without asking, you can ask for it to be taken down.
Next time you're about to forward something about someone: would you say it to their face?
When did you last forward something and think about it again afterward?
Online and offline aren't two worlds. It's the same people.
Friendship & Love · Mila and Leo · 2 min readFriends or more?
After the movies, someone posts a photo of Mila and Leo with a heart in the class chat. Everyone thinks they know what's going on. The two of them don't know yet.
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Respect & Courage · Mila and Leo · 2 min readFitting in
Leo's basketball friends laugh at a younger kid and film him. Leo laughs along until he sees the way Mila is looking at him. Does he stick with his friends or speak up?
Read the story →A Closer Look · Respect & CourageWhen everyone laughs
Almost everyone has laughed along at something that wasn't funny. That doesn't make anyone a bad person. What matters is what happens next.
→A Closer Look · Privacy & Digital BoundariesA photo of you is online, and you didn't say yes
A snapshot in the group chat, a video in someone's story, a picture with a comment underneath. That can feel awful. There are things you can do.
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Mind & Feelings
When your thoughts are loud and your feelings are difficult to explain. Stories and ideas for paying attention to what is going on inside.
→KLARTEXTFriendship & Love
Loyalty, boundaries, mixed signals and the people who matter. Relationships are rarely as simple as they look from the outside.
→KEIN PLAN?Choices & Future
Who do you want to become? What if you do not know yet? Decisions, expectations and the many ways forward.
→ALTE SCHULERespect & Values
Honesty, kindness, manners, responsibility and standing by what you believe. Especially when it is inconvenient.
→ALTE SCHULE · KLARTEXTFamily & Life
The people you come from, the traditions you keep and the changes nobody quite knows how to talk about.
→KEIN PLAN?Money & Independence
Saving, spending, working, planning and figuring out how the practical parts of growing up actually work.
→KOPF VOLL? · KEIN PLAN?School & Pressure
Grades, pressure, comparisons and the question of what it's all for.
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