Teen Chatrooms Teens test sexual and psychological boundaries on net
INTERNET use may pyschologically damage teenage users, particular those who are naturally introverted. Mubarak Ali Rahamathulla, a lecturer at Flinders University in South Australia, is leading one of the first Australian studies into the psychological impact of the internet on teenagers aged between 15 and 17.Dr Rahamathulla said no evidence existed to support the notion that the internet's influence on adolescent users was negative.Indeed, some parents and teenagers...
Teen Chatrooms I'm the bait to lure chatroom perverts
IN one of Coronation Street's most disturbing plots, teenager Sarah Platt is stalked by a paedophile she casually meets in an internet chatroom. The storyline mirrors the horrifying reality of cybersex perverts who prey on young innocents. Here, ROS WYNNE-JONES meets the demure woman who joins their world to bring them down. STEELING herself for the filth to come, Cork-born Rachel O'Connell enters an internet chatroom posing as a girl of...
Meridian students get a lesson in safety for an online lifestyle
Herbert Atienza Staff MERIDIAN -- Kody Hallford logs on to the Internet to catch up with friends and do research for school.Angela Haggerty goes online to visit teen chatrooms to discuss movies, music and other trends.The two 12-year-old seventh-graders at Crossroads Middle School in Meridian are technologically savvy -- and both could be exposed to predators who lurk on the World Wide Web.Hallford and Haggerty were among about 150 seventh- and eighth-graders at Crossroads...
Teen Chatrooms Teenagers can discover a secret, parallel world at the click of a mouse
Rebecca Johnston is a shy, giggly 14-year-old. A member of the Spice Girls dance troupe which performs at children's parties, when you ask her to name some of her favourite things she lists the teenage sensation Billie Piper and the dancing pop stars, Steps.But had you asked her the same question a year ago, she would have raved about her Tiny computer which sat in pride of place in her bedroom, and about the Internet chatrooms where she met her online friends each evening....
Teen Chatrooms Cyber door closes on chatrooms
MORE than 100 Australian online chatrooms will close today in a bid to stop child exploitation and protect them from online predators. The move affects 300,000 users of the free chatrooms provided by the nation's leading website, ninemsn, a joint venture between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting.Ninemsn last month announced it would close the sites as part of an effort to provide consumers with a safer and more secure service.Microsoft is axing its services in all...