Children use social media sites and instant messaging applications to communicate with friends and family. They are increasingly popular due to the ease with which information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (photos/videos) can be instantly shared.
Social media sites are online communities, with most sites containing a profile page where children post personal information including their name, age, location, photographs, contact details, email addresses and in some instances, their sexual preference.
Social media sites can include the following methods of communication:
Source:
https://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/cscp/personalSafety/children/childProtection/socialmedia.htm
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Social media sites are online communities, with most sites containing a profile page where children post personal information including their name, age, location, photographs, contact details, email addresses and in some instances, their sexual preference.
Social media sites can include the following methods of communication:
- Instant messaging/text chat
- Video Chat – via a webcam
- Online chat rooms
- 3D interactive communities
BE AWARE
Child sex offenders will use social media to:- Obtain a child’s contact details (from profiles or online chats)
- Build rapport with children
- Lower a child’s inhibitions by slowly introducing sexual content into their conversations
- Seek a face-to face meeting with a child
- Chooses a non-identifiable, non-gender specific username
- Never give out any personal information
- Never accepts a friend request or file from a person they don’t know
- Does not share passwords
Source:
https://www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/cscp/personalSafety/children/childProtection/socialmedia.htm
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