Libel, Slander, the Internet - Your Reputation!

Unfortunately the web also poses many dangers to some of our teenagers and kids.

One of the major dangers is the presence of the internet predator.

Internet predator statistics:

*There is estimated to be over 5, 000, 000 predators that surf the online market place

*These predators are online night and day looking for targets

*Sexual predators use forums, chat rooms, and instant messaging to locate and communicate with children.

*There can be a fifty percent chance that if your youngster is in a chat room designated for under aged children, the stranger they are talking to is a sexual predator logged within a false identity.

*Sexual predators especially enjoy the use of private messaging, private boards, and the webcam to make advances towards their own victims.

*Surveys show that one in five of our kids might receive sexual advances while online but that less than 25 per cent of them might inform a parent or adult.

*Approximately 5 percent of our kids were aggressively approached by some sort of sexual predator. This means they asked to meet the infant offline, called them relating to the phone, and also sent them money or gifts inside mail.

*89 percent off sexual advances towards our children come about in internet chat rooms and through instant messaging.

*75 percent of our kids are willing to share personal information with a stranger using the web, exactly what the sexual predator is looking to get.

*77 percent with the targets of online predators were fifteen or older. 22 percent were between the ages of 10 and 13.

*30 percent of people that are victimized by sexual potential predators are boys.

*Sexual predators are frequently between the ages of 18 together with 55. They can be predominately males. Many have no prior criminal record.

*64 percent with the teens surveyed admitted they did things online they will would not want their parents to know about.

*Approximately 19 percent of our teens say they have considered meeting someone offline that they have only known online.

*Approximately 9 percent of our teens state that they have actually met offline a stranger they previously only knew and met online.

The online market place predator has three favorite tools they adore to use to target their victims:

*Online chat rooms that offer private messages or private rooms that they can isolate your child and become aggressive without having to be observed by others.

*Internet messaging, ever again, as they can get your child one-on-one and try and take advantage of them.

*The webcam is among the most favorite tools of the predator to find out what your child looks like, to attempt to gain personal information about them, and also to manipulate them into doing things on camera to compromise their safety.
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For seven days this month, my Internet connection ceased to be; apparently (using the engineer) because the cable-modem box thingy gave up the ghost. Seven whole days with no link to the outside world, apart from the telephone of course, which isn't quite the identical is it? Now normally a very short span without Internet access would not cause too much of a problem; fortunately I can complete most of my work off-line so I saw this as only a minor inconvenience. Here are a few reasons being concerned with news.