Due to the large number of predators on computers should parents try to trap them?
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Contact your local police department most will work with you to set up a trap for these people...especially if they are local to you.\nKeep all IM's,emails,if there are phone calls document them.\nMost areas do accept those who trap pedophiles in court.\nThere is a web site with this information on it I do not remember it for sure but I believe it is www.protectkids.com or www.protectkids.org
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If talking was the solution. we would not have all these pervs... trying to get with kids over the net..Preteen,teens, even so adults  seem to think people on here tell the truth, which we all know is not the case. Better to ck. now then have the detectives tell you about it after there gone...Have you checked her My Space I am sure she has one.Also try www.keykatcher.com ( I Have a teenager)  Hope it helps,moving the computer sounds good also.
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If you are a young person still living at home, your parents are responsible for what goes in the computer and your brain. I know all my kids emails,webs,everything, the net is a very dangerous place we must take care of our kids. Even though I have all their info I do not go into their accounts as a rule. I have adminstrator and check out the activity there. It is my computer that I share with my kids so I want it the way, I want it. Cool about the stocks how did you buy any? And your mom maybe just needs to be reassured that you are going to be safe online. \nTake Care from a former teenager,now mom ~A~
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Nothing. Whatever controls are put in place, anyone who is determined can get around them. \nNothing is foolproof; not your firewall, not your credit card.\nSafety systems can give you a false sense of security. Its far more important for parents to sit at the pc with their kids and teach them personal safety.\n\nKids should never arrange to meet anyone they met online or give any personal details.\nThey should use a false name and a seperate disposable e-mail address.\nThey should never instant message, or click on a link in a message or e-mail.
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YES!!!!! Be very concerned, so concerned that you make sure that she is not planning on any trips with friends you have never met.\nFor some strange reason all kids now a days think that they are the only one with Parents who are over bearing and just don't understand them, so they get on these computer and start talking to these other so called kids which are not kids, sometimes.\nI am not sure where her computer is in your home but, to be honest it should be in a place that the whole family shares, like in the family room, that way you & your husband can monitor her plus it may be hard to do but, you need to put a time limit onher time on the computer.\nSometimes as a parent we have to put limitations on our children that they think is being harsh but, it's not \nWe do these things because we do love them and want them to be safe, If I were you I would explain to your husband how children girls & boys are disappearing from their homes on a hourly bases all over the world because some parents think that their children are safe because they are home on the computer.\nI know you may feel like you are in a postion that is uncomfortable now but, you may be saving your daughter  from a far worst fate then just not being on her computer at all hours of the night.
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I come from Boston,and our newspaper has printed over 350 articles in the last year about sexual predators using my space to get to kids,so yes, some may have been murdered.\n                Parents,do not let your kid post a profile.My space was originally for musicians to communicate with eachother,but somnehow it has gotton way out of hand.It serves no good purpose.Un like Yahoo answers that actually helps some people.
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Stop playing and get to studying. They lock the computers to keep kids, like you, from messing around on the net, to make sure you don't play and to protect their systems from being invaded by viruses. Just think-you could mess up the schools system and have to pay big bucks to correct the problems you created. Mom and Dad will love you for that bill-NOT!!!!!!!!!
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You can't and that's why they are dangerous. They seek out troubled young people and become their "friends". They gain the trust of people needing to be able to trust or talk to someone & then they will destroy the lives of those they impact when the time is right. Don't ever give out your personal information to anyone and never, never be afraid to tell an adult "NO" if you feel something's wrong. You should assume everyone is a predator and take nothing for granted ever. Young people are trusting and obediant by nature and the predators know that.
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What's up? Don't you trust your kids? If that's the case, you should have a parental control on their PC. The information will be somewhere on the hard drive, you will have to get an expert to have a look for you but if they have done something illegal you can expect trouble with the law.
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It's not safe for kids to go online, but they can venture into the unknown virtual world under the supervision and guidance of their parents. Make sure to block unwanted sites and chat rooms
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...if you are a home user, I would suggest not.  Even though the odds are slim, if a hacker gets in to your computer they will inevitably look for keyboard monitoring logs (they are an easy way get mine passwords).  If you want to restrict access or know what your kids are doing online: 1) put the pc in the living room, the screen facing the room 2) ask your kids 3) if you really must use a keylogger, use it temporarily, and delete it when you are done!
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This sounds like bad deeds.\nWhy would they be protective of what they do if they are right?\nLet's hope they did not go to the "junk" sites.\n\nI agree with other answers before me. I just want to add some.\n\n1. If they reach access to such sites through the URL toolbar, scroll down to check or type each letter one by one to see the URL visited starting with the letter typed. \n\nEx. \na------answers.yahoo.. (example URL visited)\nb------blogger..\nc------c..something\n\nYou will see a scrolling window popping out when you type whatever letter.\n\n2. Try going to search engine that they use regularly and check whether there are visited links.\n\nVisited links are usually bolded and darker that the colour of invisited links.\nTry the search index.\n\nEx.\nYahoo! Buzz Index\nAsk Top Searches\n\n3. If you have Yahoo! or MSN or Google toolbar, refer to the search history on the toolbar.\n\n\nTake time to spend quality time with your children. Tighten the bond of family love.\nBy that, they will learn to love you and stop doing anything that may hurt or cause uneasiness to you and to them also.\n\nShould they be seeking "the thing", tell them that it is not worthy.\n\nTell them that if they are still into it, they are sure to regret when they have grown up.\n\n\nOh, I have to warn you of links consisted of images.\nThey somehow hide the footprints of people visiting to whatever Websites.\n\nIf you need more help, feel free to contact me.\n\n\n\nNo wonder why a lot of people have been asking how to erase search history again and again.\n<Sigh> Kids. Most of them.
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yahoo can let you set up all the parental controls you need but I would still recommend keeping the pc in the same room as you are in when the kids are using it.\nThis way you can see what is happening
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Tell your parents, report them to myspace and/or the police.\n\nDo not go to that web stie.  arrange to meet your friends elsewhere.\n\nYou can always create a private chatroom\n\nDO NOT SEND THEM ANYTHING!\n\nIgnore their threats.  They are simply words written on a computer screen.  \n\nFind out everything you need to know about computer security.  EVEN IF they are for real, they will have a difficult job entering your computer if you have kept it up to date.
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They won't turn you into the police for asking that question. If you asked "do you find 12 year olds hot?" THEN you would be on a watch list. \n\nThe best way to catch a predator is to go into a chat room or make up a myspace thing. Easiest way.\n\nThe internet wasn't big until I was in high school, but I was still underaged. I remember chatting (without my parent's permission) and being sent a picture of a 30 year old man's penis. I was 15--what was I supposed to think? Now that I look back, I realize how many older men really DID hit on me because I was so young.
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I'd blame it on parents but unfortunately kids can go to any internet cafe or friends house and get on myspace...and they're going to if you don't let them. \n\nJust as well let them use it if they want and talk to them about the dangers of meeting strangers on there.\n\nThat's something you should be teaching your kid anyway.\n\nThe media likes to oversensationalize this kind of thing. Last year it was shark attacks this year it's myspace. Girls get raped on college campuses too it doesn't mean you shouldn't send your kid off to college.
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Thank you from a mom's viewpoint.  I think it's lack of supervision.  The computer may be in an area of the home that's is shut off from the adults.  Also I don't think some parents know what type of questions are being asked.