警察在Facebook孩子告訴父母』暗中偵察』

由 Ellen Connolly

警察勸告父母加入社會網絡網站-例如MySpace和Facebook -對「間諜」在他們的孩子。

移動被當局跟隨增長的關心在張貼親密的信息和相片他們自己在站點為世界看的少年。

維持言治安爆炸在站點大眾化像MySpace (擁有由News Corp，出版者的總公司 NEWS.com .au)和Facebook創造了一個完善的獵場為潛隨獵物者和pedophiles。

In NSW in the past week, a teenage girl has run away with a stranger she met on the Internet and two others have threatened to leave home.

Parents have inundated the Department of Community Service’s (DoCS) Parent Line, distressed at the “secret lives” they believe their children are conducting online.

“We are in the middle of an absolute Internet crisis,” Parent Line manager Barbara Adair said.

“We’re getting a flood of calls from worried parents about their child’s Internet usage.”

As a result, the Australia Federal Police’s MetAlert unit and DoCS counsellors are advising parents to register on MySpace and Facebook to keep tabs on their children.

They say the websites give an instant insight into their children’s private lives.

Ms Adair said the number of parents calling the advice line, because of Internet fears, had increased by 45 per cent in the past year.

MySpace and Facebook have at least 50 million student users worldwide, making them perfect hunting grounds for stalkers and pedophiles.

With their mixture of wall post, networks, photos, events and the groups, the sites have become the latest Internet craze for young people.

But Ms Adair said children and teenagers did not realise that the world had a window to their lives.

“It’s the victimisation of children by pedophiles, who have these whole new arena to pick up kids,” she said.

“The problem is that young people put quite salacious material there and people can hack into it.”

“Kids don’t really realise the danger they are posing to themselves and to others.”

Police cybercrime school liaison officer Fran Boorer said children and parents needed to be educated about the online dangers.

She said it was important that parents understood how the social networking websites worked.

‘It’s not spying - I think we’re telling parents just to be aware of what their kids are doing and what’s on the sites,” Senior Constable Boorer said.

Sen Const Boorer is one of 40 police officers visiting high schools around the State to educate students about cybercrime and Internet usage.

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