Children 'meet net friends often'
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Youngsters are meeting up with people they met on the internet, without their parents knowing, research suggests.
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My children are great kids. They inspire me every day. Scott, 24, and his sister, Joy, 22, have cystic fibrosis. Thanks to the medicines available when they were young and new medicines available
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Think teens and twenty-somethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It&#39;s Grandma and grandkids - some too young to read - who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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NEW YORK  - New research shows that kids  really do tend to follow in their parents' footsteps, at least  in terms of how they choose to spend their free time.
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NEW YORK -- One in five American parents believe their kids are spending too much time on the Internet, though most say the online activities haven't affected grades either way.
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By Melissa Vargas Sanchez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 24--Making sure your kids are staying safe in cyberspace just got a little less tedious.   Many parents and grandparents of teens are mystified when it comes to things like friends lists, comment sections and blogs.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of a childâs developmental milestones.
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MORE than two-thirds of London parents have banned their children from internet chatrooms fearing they may be talking to paedophiles, a survey reveals today.   Nevertheless, according to a second poll, a huge number of children are putting themselves in danger with illicit online activity.
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NEW YORK -- Fact: Kids create more than 100,000 avatars each day in virtual communities such as Habbo and Club Penguin.
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In a Jan. 14 story about an agreement by MySpace to protect youngsters from online sexual predators, The Associated Press erroneously quoted Parry Aftab as saying that 20 percent of teens have met someone online whom they had never met in person. Aftab, executive director of Wiredsafety.org, a children's Internet safety group, estimates that 20 percent of teens have made contact with someone online and followed up with a face-to-face meeting.
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One Laptop Per Child, an ambitious project to bring computing to the developing worldâs children, is reaching out to the public through an interesting marketing campaign.
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Children have always built their own fantasy worlds. These days, the Internet is making it easier -- perhaps too easy, some say.
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By Subashini Selvaratnam  WITH the advancement of technology, people from all walks of life can keep in touch with friends and loved ones anytime, anywhere. In fact, more Malaysians are networking online, thanks to the growth of social networking Web sites.
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By Kat Zeman Daily Herald Staff Writer  What you don't know about computers can hurt your child.  Roughly 45 percent of the children who have fallen victim to a predator in recent years had a personal profile on the Internet.
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As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online.
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Parents are keen to monitor their children's progress in education with new technology, a survey suggests.
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By Janet Kornblum  Brittnie Sarnes has 5,000 MySpace friends. Actually, make that 5,036.  At last count, anyhow. About 10 people a day ask to "friend" her.  Usually she says yes.  She knows they're total strangers, but it doesn't matter.