Social Networking has grown to be massive in the past few years, especially amongst the younger generation.
With websites like Facebook, Bebo and Myspace appealing different age groups and growing larger and larger every day, it's not wonder that more than a quarter of 8-11 year olds have a profile themselves.
It was created as a free and easy way to contact people, friends, family or maybe to talk to strangers who share your interests. However, now it has gotten out of control with the amount of information it can give away about a certain person. Your age, location, email address and avatar can be the starting point for a stalker, or a pedophile.
It is now getting a lot more dangerous with anyone who looks at your profile knowing a bit too much about you.
There are privacy settings, but most teenagers either don't know how to use them or want strangers to know what they are interested in.
Parents grow more and more worried as the figures of children meeting strangers, who turned out to be a 50 year old man and not '10 year old Billy who enjoys watching Pokemon too', grow and how did they meet them? Through a social networking website.
Stalkers and pedophiles have all the information to lure your children to them through their own profile - is social networking really for socialising or is it for tracking down a new victim?
What the parents say.
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I made the mistake of posting a cute video of my little girl online. I nearly puked when I discovered this week that an image of my four-year-old little girl was on a Website catering to pedophiles. It gets worse. Although I was able to have the Website shut down, the Website host company gave the pedophile my name, address, phone number and email address. I have two children! See the post and the video at http://rittman.blogspot.com. Spread the word. Make complaints. Do not let them get away with this.
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