To Catch A Predator: Protecting Your Kids From Online Enemies Already in Your Home
To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
By: Chris Hansen. Plume, 2008
The increasing connectivity children have these days because of the internet makes them easy targets for sexual predators. Within the pages of this book, parents will find real life cases of what goes on in the minds of sexual predators and how to protect their children from them. Here is an excerpt from the book:
“All bets are off. The Myspace phenomenon has changed child safety as we know it,†says Patty Aftab, who runs Wiresafety.org, a non-profit group dedicated to protecting kids online. ‘The number of kids who are getting hurt because of this is not going to be able to contain. I have been doing this stuff longer than anybody else – I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years, and I will tell you, this has me scared.†What scary about my space and the other major social networking sites like Xanga, Friendster, Cyworld, Bebo, and Facebook – is that, unless the kids restrict their page, they give instant access to pictures and profiles that they post themselves. Think of Myspace as a cyber bulletin board kids decorate with favorite music that they have downloaded and pictures of themselves. That’s for them. For predators, think of it as a shopping mall. Anyone can strike up a conversation with someone they see in a social networking site. Kids can restrict their profiles to just friends and people they know, but many don’t and too often, they put way too much revealing information about themselves online. Even when a profile is restricted, a kid has the option of letting someone in who contacts them and asks to be included in their network of friends. An appealing picture, a friendly query, a similarity of interests, or someone who justs sounds “cool†is often more than enough for kids to make exceptions and let someone into their site that they don’t, in fact, know. To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
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By: Chris Hansen. Plume, 2008The increasing connectivity children have these days because of the internet makes them easy targets for sexual predators. Within the pages of this book, parents will find real life cases of what goes on in the minds of sexual predators and how to protect their children from them. Here is an excerpt from the book:
“All bets are off. The Myspace phenomenon has changed child safety as we know it,†says Patty Aftab, who runs Wiresafety.org, a non-profit group dedicated to protecting kids online. ‘The number of kids who are getting hurt because of this is not going to be able to contain. I have been doing this stuff longer than anybody else – I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years, and I will tell you, this has me scared.†What scary about my space and the other major social networking sites like Xanga, Friendster, Cyworld, Bebo, and Facebook – is that, unless the kids restrict their page, they give instant access to pictures and profiles that they post themselves. Think of Myspace as a cyber bulletin board kids decorate with favorite music that they have downloaded and pictures of themselves. That’s for them. For predators, think of it as a shopping mall. Anyone can strike up a conversation with someone they see in a social networking site. Kids can restrict their profiles to just friends and people they know, but many don’t and too often, they put way too much revealing information about themselves online. Even when a profile is restricted, a kid has the option of letting someone in who contacts them and asks to be included in their network of friends. An appealing picture, a friendly query, a similarity of interests, or someone who justs sounds “cool†is often more than enough for kids to make exceptions and let someone into their site that they don’t, in fact, know. To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
Tags: Books, Book Reviews, Amazon, Amazon Books
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