Online Grooming is the people who try to get close to children to do something bad to them. Those people usually use any sites and services that are popular in the young people group, for example those people might requests to be friends on social media hope that young people will accept them or maybe in the games and chatroom. Mostly they will start the conversation and then ask to chat privacy with young people. I believe that social media is a medium of child temptation.
Nowaday social media is where people could share something that they like or their feeling and texting your friends or even someone that you don’t know, that’s why online groomer use social media. It would be easier for them to text young people by make up a fake account and text them. They could ask for photo or trick young people to go out and meet the groomer and they might sell young people to someone or rape them.
Not only social media, they could appear to be faking account in online games because young people like to play games, so it could be easier for the groomer to chat with the young people in the chatroom in the game and ask to take in private later.
There were a lot of news about a man or a woman that was a groomer tried to groom a child by using social media, for example David Cardwell. He was caught trying to groom a child by texting in a group chat. he talked about sleepovers, cudles in bed and kisses. He was arrested last year after one of the group member reported him to the police after he tried to have a sexual conversations with people in the group chat.Also the police found more than 1,000 images of children that are prohibited.
Over all you could see that social media is also dangerous not just for the children but it is also dangerous for us all. People could look up for your address, they could text you even if you don’t know them or trick you by make up a fake account and text you pretend to be friend with you. You shouldn’t trust anyone you don’t know that text you on any social media straight away and if they ask you to go out and meet them, don’t go for your own safety. Another way is when strangers text you and they were sending or talking about something strange you should tell your parents or you just block that account.
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