Online predators are finding new ways to target your children. Now more than ever, parents need to be more involved with their kids online activity and safety.
It could literally be the difference between life and death.
The Internet
If there were ever a digital “wild, wild west”, the internet could very well be it. It’s mostly unregulated and gives access to just about anything and everything to anyone who wants it.
There are a lot of positives about the internet, but there is equally a lot of pure evil as well and kids today have almost no chance of not running into some kind of online situation that could take them down a very dark path.
Even the most innocent of apps can be dangerous.
TikTok
You may have seen the story recently that hit close to home after an 8 year old girl in Temple, Texas accidentally killed herself doing the “Blackout Challenge” she had seen on TikTok. The girl’s parents are currently suing TikTok. More about that tragic story here.
The point here is that nobody with access to the internet is safe from the dangers that are just a click away.
Sextortion
The FBI is warning of a new scam that targets children and teens called “sextortion.”
According to the FBI’s website, criminals are posing as children themselves and finding kids on all the different sites, apps and games where others are online and communicating then they convince their victims to send compromising photos or videos of themselves.
You’d be surprised at how many kids will actually do this…
