... is being far underestimated if people think that the children do not realize that these sexual solicitations and requests for personal information are morally wrong, dangerous and illegal. Most people, including children, have the common sense to realize that one knows an internet friend no better than a stranger on the street. No one would ever give a stranger on the street his or her address or phone ... number; therefore the incidents of child abduction or assault from meeting someone on the internet are far fewer than most people expect them to ... be. These statistics, however, al...

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... has been suggested that people run background checks themselves through services such as casebreakers.com before giving out personal information or meeting anyone from the internet. This might not be a bad idea for some people who are nervous or insecure about online dating, but personally, I ... in a bar, I would not insist on doing a background check before giving him my phone number or agreeing to a date. However there are the occasional horror stories that make background checks seem like a necessity. Giving out personal information like a real name, telephone number or address puts ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... home to greet their other children returning home from school. Face-to-face interaction was commonplace; from co-workers to the bank teller, from the lunch partner to the cashier at the GAP, we were interacting with people at every turn. Today that has all changed. For a large number of ... go so far before wanting to have that physical closeness; when relationships become more serious, or even intimate, people want to meet the "stranger" on the other end. Face-to-face interaction gives people an enormous amount of information about others that is just not possible online, even through ...

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... more than 7 million copies of SurfWatch. Features include, Simple installation. Install and run SurfWatch in five minutes Ñ even if youre a computer novice. Powerful filtering. Block 16 topics across the four core categories of sexually explicit material, violence and hate speech, gambling, and illicit drugs and alcohol. Easy customization. "Fine tune" Internet access by customizing your SurfWatch filtering and creating ... with one another in face-to-face meetings. Conversations among strangers in chat rooms are completely unlike the traditional point-to-point communication in a telep...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate