ChatDanger.com informs about the potential dangers of online chat rooms
Title
Chatdanger - how to keep SAFE while chatting online
Description
Aim:
The Chatdanger website has been created to inform young people about the potential dangers and ways of keeping safe in interactive areas online, such as chatrooms, instant messenger, online games and email, and also via mobile phones. The aim of the site is very much to inform and empower users of these services, so they can use these services safely, and not at all to discourage people from using these services.
History:
Childnet International originally launched the Chatdanger website in October 2000. Earlier that year Childnet had been contacted by the family of a 13 year-old girl who had been sexually abused by an adult who had first made contact with her in an Internet chatroom. The family very bravely wanted to use their story to help alert other parents to the dangers of chatrooms, and to use their words,
“to ensure that some good comes from this tragic episode by raising awareness of the potential dangers of the Internet, particularly chatrooms”.
Languages
English
Contact
- CHILDNET
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Additional Information
Related Domains
External Links
- Alexa: ChatDanger.com
