Adult Chatrooms How to protect your child online
NEVER allow children unsupervised access to the Internet. Keep the computer in a common area of the home and periodically observe what they are doing on it. BECOME computer literate.CONTROL the access. Online users require a password. Parents can protect the password and log in for the children whenever they wish to use the computer.LEARN about blocking mechanisms such as Net nanny and Cyber Patrol which will filter out sites by searching for unacceptable words. Some software can...
The Mirror: Sue Carroll's Column: THE CHAT TRAP
FOR 11 hours a day 12-year-old schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington was allowed to sit in the family kitchen trawling through internet adult chatrooms, the haunt of pervs, weirdos and freaks.Clearly her parents, Stephen and Joanna, remained blissfully unaware of what their daughter got up to since none of her emails were given so much as a cursory check. "I had no idea she was speaking to older men from abroad," explained her father when he asked her to reduce what he...
Adult Chatrooms Daily Mail: Girl aged 12 flees to Francewith the U.S. marine, 31, she met
A GIRL of 12 is believed to have fled to France with a former U.S.marine she met in an internet chatroom. Shevaun Pennington left home on Saturday morning after telling her parents she was going shopping with friends. It emerged yesterday, however, that she met up with 31-year-old Toby Studabaker, who was in the Marine Corps until ten days ago.Last night police in the U.S.said the American had been investigated for an alleged sex offence against a child in 1998, although he was...
Adult Chatrooms Leicester Mercury: Protect your youngsters
I went into a chatroom posing as a young teenage girl. I wanted to see how long it took before I was made to feel uneasy, if at all. I didn't have long to wait.Within seconds of logging on to a popular, easy-to-find chatroom as Claire13, indicating I was a 13-year-old girl, I was singled out for a private conversation by "Patrick". Even though the chatroom was for "people aged under 19 only", I had no idea how old Patrick was,...
Adult Chatrooms THE DIGITALGENERATION
Chat rooms, CD burners, MP3 players and other technological marvels may amaze, even frighten, anyone born before 1970 but for the digital generation, they're just a part of life, along with the toaster and the TV. Every night, in her bedroom in the Melbourne suburb of Parkdale, Tessa French, 16, spends hours chatting with her friends. The conversations are nothing new: movies, music, guys, girls. The words might still be carried by phone lines but instead of a tightly stretched cord...