Digital Wellbeing
Managing Digital Risks
A practical guide to staying safer, smarter and healthier in a connected world.
Suleman Baluch · Ahmed Assaad · Ishaq Kanj
What this site is about
Half our day happens on a screen we barely look up from.
Most of us are online before breakfast and still scrolling long after dark. That is just normal now. The problem is that the same apps keeping us close to our friends also carry scam links, fake accounts, pressure to overshare, and a trail of information that follows us around for years. This site is about the risks that actually show up in a teenager's phone, not the ones adults imagine. (Suleman)
None of the advice here needs you to be good with computers. Most of it is small habits: reading a message twice before tapping the link in it, keeping your accounts locked down, having different passwords, knowing who you would tell if something went wrong. Boring things, done early, save you from the loud things later on. (Ahmed)
Every claim on the site has a real source behind it, and the videos in the Creative Corner are ours. Read the pages in whatever order you like, then pick one habit off the Goodies list and change it this week. (Ishaq)
46%
of Australian children aged 8 to 17 who used the internet in the past year said they had a negative online experience
1 in 5
young Australians said they were the target of online hate speech in the past year
Source: eSafety Commissioner, Mind the Gap (2022) | see Feature
“The internet got faster. The risks just got better at hiding.”
Index
Six risks we keep coming back to
- 01
Scams & phishing
Messages that copy a brand you trust and rush you into clicking.
- 02
Oversharing
Small details like your school, suburb or timetable that add up to a map of your life.
- 03
Digital footprint
The version of you that stays online after you log off.
- 04
Strangers & fake accounts
Profiles built to feel familiar before they ask for something.
- 05
Misinformation
Confident posts with no source behind them.
- 06
Always-on pressure
Notifications that quietly decide how your night goes.