Don’t scare us and use our language to discuss sextortion, say teenagers

Awareness campaign partly designed by under-18s will launch on social media to educate adults and children

If you want to warn young people about the dangers of sextortion, use language that they understand, keep your messages fast-paced and don’t scare us, say Scottish teenagers.

Previous awareness-raising campaigns “all looked like they’d been designed by old people trying to be young,” according to the young Scots who have developed a series of online clips in partnership with Fearless, the youth service of the charity Crimestoppers, launching across social media this week.