Computing KS3 / KS4: Online Grooming - Changes in personality

Lorin:
You could always hear before you could see teenage fun and games. Right there was where I saw the avatar of Danes, who wasn't Danes.

Lewis:
She's manipulating you, she's controlling you, Breck. It's abuse. She might be your mum, but she's a total failure. Okay, she's going to isolate you from you and your friends, including me. Is that what you want?

Barry:
As a young boy he was incredibly good with his hands, he could take things apart, he could put things back together, he also had a great fascination with flying, joined up with the Air Cadets, and the big benefit for him there was the Air Cadets would offer him the opportunity to fly a glider.

Max:
I did try and talk to Breck about why he'd started not coming up, and he'd just shove me off with generic answers, "Oh yeah, I can't, I'm busy." It's literally just like someone had flipped a switch, and he just stopped. The smiling, happy Breck just wasn't there any more. He kept everything to himself, and became much more isolated. Looking back, that was probably a sign that something wasn't quite right. There was something going on with him that as a group we couldn't work it out.

Lorin:
Breck would have his headphones on, and I'd be standing there with Breck saying, "Breck, you need to come and do this couple of things," and he'd have Danes literally in his ear, saying.

Lewis:
You don't have to do that. Don't listen to her. You don't have to do that.

Lorin:
Lewis doesn't think I should have to do chores when I don't make any messes. Lewis doesn't think I should have to go to church if I don't believe in God. Lewis doesn't think I have to finish school, because he can get me an apprenticeship with Microsoft when I'm 16. So there were a lot of these comments that would come out when Breck and I would ride back and forth to Air Cadets.

Bret:
Hey dude, you poked?

Lewis:
Yeah, they were annoying me.

Bret:
Yeah, what happened to Liam?

Lewis:
Booted him. Yeah, that guy annoys me every day. It's my server and I can do what I want.

Bret's friend with glasses:
Lewis at the end of the day was the head of server. So if someone started annoying him quite a lot, then he would just strictly restrict access by banning them.

Lewis:
This isn't gonna carry on. I won't tell you again.

Liam:
It began to sort of feel like he was segregating everyone else from Breck by arguing, pushing them away.

Matt:
We had quite a few conversations with Breck, "We're your real life friends, why are you sort of focusing more on someone that you haven't actually met?"

Max:
I disliked him, and I didn't like the way he spoke to us. And I told Breck that getting in with Lewis was a bad idea because of the way that he treated him and me, and everyone. But I didn't enforce it.