For the last week or so, I’ve been talking in my classes about Internet safety in light of some recent backlash against MySpace. There are quite a few cases now of kids meeting people on MySpace and being abducted, molested, raped, and even murdered. To be fair, MySpace isn’t the only medium for this time of abuse, just the current favorite. It is very easy to make friends on the Internet, and you never really know who you’re talking to. In any case, it has provided for some good class discussions, and I hope also raised the awareness level of my students.
At the end of our discussion today, one of my students suddenly looked puzzled, then asked, “What if a kidnapper pretending to be a teenage boy agreed to meet a kidnapper pretending to be a teenage girl in person? What would happen then?”
Hmmm…