Catch An Internet Predator
March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Internet Predators
Of all the places your child goes to on the Internet, chat rooms are the most difficult sites for you as a parent to monitor. These locations permit the kind of person you would usually avoid in person to easily and readily approach your children.
See what happens in this scenario:
Robert, a middle school student, enters a chat room for young teenagers and gets into the flow of conversation. He tells how old he is and where he goes to school. He gets a response from someone who appears to be a thirteen-year-old girl named Jennifer. Her messages come with misspelled words and typing mistakes, and she sounds like a teenager, but in reality she is a forty-two-year-old man who is looking for young teenage boys to take advantage of. This pedophile may select Robert out of the group and invite him to enter a private room.
Pretending to be Jennifer, the pedophile might talk to Robert over several nights or weeks, becoming friendlier and friendlier and perhaps easing the conversation into sexual topics. Sooner or later, in most cases like this, Jennifer may ask where Robert lives and perhaps his phone number. Worse yet, this pedophile may try to set up a meeting with Robert.
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Chat Room And IM Flirting
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Oh, what a tangled Web is weaved as rapidly growing numbers of married people sneak into Internet chat rooms for romantic or sexual thrills they think they aren’t getting from their spouses, a new University of Florida study finds.” Never before has the dating world been so handy for married men and women looking for a fling,” said Beatriz Avila Mileham, who conducted the research for her doctoral dissertation in counselor education at UF. “With cybersex, there is no longer any need for secret trips to obscure motels. An online liaison may even take place in the same room with one’s spouse.”
In the words of one 41-year-old man in the study, “All I have to do is turn on my computer, and I have thousands of women to choose from. (It) can’t get any easier than that.” Counseling organizations report chat rooms are the fastest-rising cause of relationship breakdowns, and the problem only stands to get worse as today’s population of Internet users, estimated at 649 million worldwide, continues to grow, Mileham said.
“The Internet will soon become the most common form of infidelity, if it isn’t already,” she said. Unlike some fatal attractions, a simple click of a mouse button ends contact – should the person want to break it off – without any explanations or apologies, she said.
Mileham conducted in-depth online interviews with approximately 100 people, ages 25 to 66, who used Yahoo’s “Married and Flirting” or Microsoft’s “Married But Flirting,” Internet chat rooms geared specifically for married people. The study’s participants, who represented every state, included stay-at-home mothers, construction workers, engineers, nurses and presidents of large corporations. Some went online for a quick “sex fix,” while others established more meaningful connections where they talked about personal problems, marital issues and things like that, Mileham said. Others hoped to have a real-life affair. Still others wanted to engage in cybersex, exchanging sexual fantasies with someone while masturbating, she said.
The vast majority said they loved their spouses but sought an erotic encounter online because of boredom, a partner’s lack of sexual interest or the need for variety and fun, Mileham said. “I’m not going to cheat,” wrote one married man. “I’m just capturing back some of those butterflies we feel when we’re young and start flirting and dating.”
“The No. 1 complaint from men was lack of sex in the marriage,” Mileham said. “Many of them said their wife was so involved in childrearing that she wasn’t interested in having sex.” Because there is no touching involved in online chat conversations, married people often rationalize their behavior as harmless fun, Mileham said. Eighty-three percent of the study’s participants said they did not consider themselves to be cheating, and the remaining 17 percent deemed it a “weak” form of infidelity that was easily justifiable, she said.
Other research has shown, however, that most spouses feel as betrayed, angry and hurt by online infidelity as they would if skin-to-skin adultery had taken place, she said. The UF study found an escalating quality to these online contacts. Many reported that what started as innocent, friendly exchanges progressed quickly to strong desires for sexual relationships, she said.
Twenty-six percent of the study participants went on to meet the person whom they had been engaged in an online relationship with, and of these, all but two ended up having a real-life affair. One 66-year-old man ended up having 13 affairs this way, she said.
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Business Internet Abuse
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Employee Internet abuse costs an estimated four billion dollars in lost work productivity each year. Surveys reveal that 1 in 5 employees view online pornography at work and that 70% of adult web sites are hit between the hours of 9-5.
Not only do employees surf sex sites but they also visit sport sites, bid on eBay, trade stocks, shop online, and send tasteless jokes to coworkers. This type of misuse not only hurts employee job performance but increases threats to information security and drains valuable network resources. To prevent such abuses, firms institute employee Internet use policies, but often workers do not comply with policies and may actively try to circumvent filters and firewalls that block unwanted Internet access.
Companies also are at risk for harassment claims due to sexually or racially discriminatory email sent through corporate networks.
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