Oh God what a subject. I can't help but find the paranoia about predators online a little amusing. At least the subject gets less play these days but for a while is seemed like there was this unending deluge of sensationalist media attention on the idea of how the internets can harm your children. Not how the internets ARE harming children, but how they MIGHT be harming children. It's not as if you see news of a kid getting whisked away by a perverted, naked man-child they met online every 24 hours, but the kind of attention the prospect of such an event gets/got would certainly give you that impression. I love this local Fox News report on predators using Pictochat to target children. I reeaally doubt there has ever been a single reported case on harm coming to a child resulting from someone 30 or less feet away from talking to them on a DS but the report is certainly trying to make you think it's an inevitability.
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