Danger!!
Once again in the news today there was an article about cellphone and internet safety. A fifteen year old girl who had never had a boyfriend before found a forty-one year old man on a text chat-room. They began to talk all the time and as far as her parents knew she was just texting her friends. Since the fifteen year old had low self-esteem, the forty-one year old kept telling her she was beautiful and saying all the things she wanted to hear. After a while the man became her so called ”boyfriend” and seduced her. The man has now been arrested and all the girls family have had a real shock.
I think that some of these matters are very disturbing. For one thing I can’t believe anyone would ever do something like this. It is wrong and just sick, I don’t really see why anyone would ever do anything like this. This man must have had some serious problems to make him even think of trying this let alone actually do it. Another thing is how safe people need to be on their cellphones. I for one have never heard about these “text chat-rooms” and don’t plan on going on one. To me phones are used for keeping in touch with friends and family not trying to meet someone new. I think that everyone out there needs to be VERY careful with what they do or say to people whether it be on bebo, texting or on a chat-room. You never know who could be on the other end if you don’t actually know them. So my advice would be to make sure you never text, e-mail or reply to strangers, you wouldn’t just walk up and start talking to a total random in real life. Would You?
