Know-it-all teens prove reckless online

The number of cases of teens getting involved with pedophiles and other unsavory characters that they have met online esp on social networking sites like MySpace.
 
tibby.dude said:
The number of cases of teens getting involved with pedophiles and other unsavory characters that they have met online esp on social networking sites like MySpace.
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.....?
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
i think he meant to add: are increasing.
or: are terrible. or something to that effect.
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I would be very surprised if the numbers were high, they're probably close to negligible and probably about as low as you can ever possibly realistically expect them to be ... I think 'the children' are still more in danger from "real life" pedophiles etc. The reason people think it's so bad is because the very few cases that do occur are blown way of proportion by media sensationalism.

Anyway I think the article seems to be more about crappy Windows security problems like viruses and spyware stealing credit card info and stuff like that, it has nothing to do with pedophiles.
 
The old believe everything

the middle-aged suspect everything

the young know everything


Oscar Wilde
 
tibby.dude said:
The number of cases of teens getting involved with pedophiles and other unsavory characters that they have met online esp on social networking sites like MySpace.
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I take it this has nothing to do with the article rpm posted? From getting something for nothing to paedophillia is a mighty bound.

And why does that article speficily target teens? Most of the adults i know are more techonologicaly retarded than the teens that they did this study on, and most of the computers Ive had to clean were most definitly adults.
 
Turtle said:
I would be very surprised if the numbers were high, they're probably close to negligible and probably about as low as you can ever possibly realistically expect them to be ... I think 'the children' are still more in danger from "real life" pedophiles etc. The reason people think it's so bad is because the very few cases that do occur are blown way of proportion by media sensationalism.
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The danger is overstated. The scaremongers that spread fear about sites like MySpace are the same ones that would have us believe there are predators around every corner just waiting to eat our children. They prey on parents' natural concern for their children.
 
w1z4rd said:
And why does that article speficily target teens? Most of the adults i know are more techonologicaly retarded than the teens that they did this study on, and most of the computers Ive had to clean were most definitly adults.
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Teens might have a better understanding of technology but they have little idea about what the world is really like - though they would never admit to that. What they do seem to have like understanding of is the idea that their actions might have serious consequences.

My kid - my responsibility.
 
bwana v.14 said:
Teens might have a better understanding of technology but they have little idea about what the world is really like - though they would never admit to that. What they do seem to have like understanding of is the idea that their actions might have serious consequences.

My kid - my responsibility.
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And parents seem to have no understanding of their actions when it comes to IT related stuffs. Having a "not understanding consquences" argument for teens, can just as easly be applied to adults.

Their "i know everything" attitudes tend to get their PC`s chock full of malware at the first porn site an adult male (or female) visits. I have fixed far more adult computers, than teen boxes in mah life, and the majority of PC`s at home that I fixed were due to malware.

One would think that if the parent was correctly educated about IT, his or her teen would also have the correct advise, and malware would be less likely to spread.
 
15% are prepared to pay for downloads from online shops such as iTunes

That's high. What's wrong with this 15%?

stiff-upper-lipped Brits are the most security conscious

Perhaps a symptom of their paranoid, safety-obsessed risk-averse society.

file-sharing sites such as Kazaa

They need to learn they should be using bittorrent instead. Or is Kazaa just a generic name being used to indicate peer-to-peer in general? Does the writer know the difference?
 
Most teens don't take resposibility for their actions these days ,if something goes wrong they can always run to the parents to sort it out.:(
 
It is so ironic that this article condone the action of the teenagers for downloading freebies while it suggest that parents download freebies!
 
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