EVEN superheroes and villains can fall into cyber traps.
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In a play performed by Riverside High School year 10 students at the Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge Awards, Batman claimed to have fallen in love with a woman he met on the internet.
She turned out to be Catwoman.
Shane Bryan, who plays Batman's sidekick Robin, said cyber safety was a growing issue for young people.
"With us being teenagers, we all have Facebook and use the internet all the time."
East Launceston Primary, Dominic College and Fahan School took out first prize in the three age categories of the awards for their creative ideas to promote e-safety.
Fahan School year 10s Bunfu Yu and Frankie Bush enlisted high-profile people including Premier David Bartlett to feature in a video on the issue.
They asked each celebrity to take a photo of themselves with a sign reading "I care" or "It hurts".
They edited the images into a 90-second video. Their class also decided to ask each member of the school to sign a commitment not to engage in cyber-bullying.
"You can watch a movie and forget it, but when you're asked to sign something you have to think about it a bit more," Miss Bush said.
St Virgil's grade 6 pupil Lewis Arnold and Dana Devine, of Northern Support School, were joint winners of the Police Commissioner's Award.
Ms Devine used her communication book full of pictures and words to explain that cyber-bullying made her feel "sad, frightened and a bit upset".
Lewis made a documentary about the pitfalls of chatting online.
