Adult Chatroom THE DIGITALGENERATION
Chat rooms, CD burners, MP3 players and other technological marvels may amaze, even frighten, anyone born before 1970 but for the digital generation, they're just a part of life, along with the toaster and the TV. Every night, in her bedroom in the Melbourne suburb of Parkdale, Tessa French, 16, spends hours chatting with her friends. The conversations are nothing new: movies, music, guys, girls. The words might still be carried by phone lines but instead of a tightly stretched cord...
Adult Chatroom Evening Mail: M2: Internet: HOW I POSED AS A CHILD ON THE INTERNET
IT took a couple of minutes to set up an email address in the name of laura bennett, 14.I typed the word 'chat' and 'teenage' into a search engine and tracked down a chatroom for teenagers. I registered as 14-year-old Laura Bennett with a fake address and date of birth. There were no checks I was the teenager I claimed to be. In minutes I was emailing other teenagers and seeing the photos they had posted of themselves. I registered as...
Adult Chatroom Internet Calls for Sense, Not Censor
Things have gotten way out of hand, lately. It seems that every politician with an ax to grind wants to pin the condition of American society on an easy target: the Internet.Apparently, the Internet causes poverty, street crime and crack babies. It's the Internet that is to blame for the general malaise in our society. The Internet has undone our schools, fostered street gangs and caused our governmental infrastructure to decline. It might even be the reason the Bulls faded in...
Adult Chatroom Daily Mail: A Femail reporter posed as a girl aged 12 on the internet. In just
MIDDAY and I'm logging on to the internet as a 12-year- old girl.Within two hours, I've been asked to meet a 21-year-old and have been approached for 'cyber sex' by six other men. With terrifying ease, I have discovered how children can stray into a sinister adult world at the click of a button.My investigation was carried out as the British authorities are attempting to extradite Toby Studabaker from Germany to Britain.The...