Jean Op den Kamp (imported) wrote: Sun May 17, 2009 12:05 am Most children do have an excellent protection against people they shouldn't trust. They smell it, they feel it, a sixth sense. They don't understand the danger from internet, as this is only a small part of a real conversation. Because they don't catch a bad feeling they trust to easy........
But why are they going on internet to find someone who can listen? Is that maybe because in public nobody dares anymore
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Jean
Children have some protection against bad people, normally they just do not trust a person they see first time. Children can read other person emotions much better than adults, that is another protection.
But in internet they can not see other person. False sense of anonymity open them up to strangers and as they can not see other person face, they can not read emotions of that other person that otherway would have scared them off.
Parents have even less clue what their children and especially teenagers are doing in the net whole days and nights. So they have no chance to protect their child.
I wouldn't call an isolation a protection. Isolating a child from the world makes him/her more vulnerable. Much more vulnerable. Isolation is like AIDS that is destroying immune system.
In my country there was a case recently, where a man from the net (from another country, far far away) made a 15yo boy to commit a suicide. First the man made the boy believe that he is a girl. And after some chats man learned many facts about the boy. Where he goes to school, who are his friends, where he lived. Then he asked the boy to show his penis n the cam, which boy did and man recorded it. After that he started to blackmail the boy asking him to do more nasty things to pleasure him, threatening to send this recorded video to his friends. Until the boy commited a suicide.
Now, this is nasty. This man probably didn't understood what he was doing. I would call him an animal, as animals act on their low urges without thinking first. What do you do with a cat who piss everywhere?...