Chat rooms

Everyone loves chat rooms, but kids, especially teenagers, have a special devotion to talking with their peers, and talking online is no different. Chat rooms, Instant Messaging and chat boards have replaced the telephone as the favourite way kids communicate with friends. If kids and their parents don't understand how message boards and chat rooms work, the sites they love could stop being fun and become dangerous.

Pay attention to these suggestions when signing up for chat rooms.

• 19 percent of young Internet users received unwanted sexual solicitations in the past year.
• 25 percent of the surveyed children received unwanted exposure to sexual material.

• Only 18 percent of the most serious incidents were reported. In most cases the incidents were not reported to the authorities.

• 6 percent of the young people surveyed reported incidents of harassment.

If you only have the time to visit ONE website about the cautions of chat rooms let it be

It is one of the best sites on the Internet at explaining the cautions and dangers of chat rooms. How they can be used to have fun make friends in a careful and reasonable manner.