Does anyone watch Dateline?
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:18 pm
Dateline is doing this series called "To Catch a Predator". I am sorry, but it really cracks me up.
An undercover group chats with men online, posing as underage children - 13 to 15, boys or girls. They set up a time and place to meet and Chris Hanson from Dateline is there to greet them. The police and Chris both have copies of the chat between the men and the undercover - often times with web photos of the guys and their genitals!
It is horrifying that so many men are out there wanting to take advantage of our children.
But it is so very funny to watch these grown men with their bags of sex toys and condoms trying to talk their way out of the situation that they have gotten themselves into. And how many try to say that they had no intention of having sex with these children, they just wanted to "make new friends"! And the number of them that have seen the show, but still go is staggering! You would think that watching man after man being taken down in a front yard would make them think twice.
My daughter (MeTal Bean, to some here) is 19 and she has a myspace page that she has had for a couple of years. The rules when she joined were fairly simple, yet strict. She is not allowed to have people on her friends list that she doesn't actually know (from school), she is not allowed to post personal information on her page - she has our home state listed but no city - if she recieves a message from a friend which contains a phone number or an address, she must edit that information out as soon as she reads the message. She is not allowed in chat rooms.
An undercover group chats with men online, posing as underage children - 13 to 15, boys or girls. They set up a time and place to meet and Chris Hanson from Dateline is there to greet them. The police and Chris both have copies of the chat between the men and the undercover - often times with web photos of the guys and their genitals!
It is horrifying that so many men are out there wanting to take advantage of our children.
But it is so very funny to watch these grown men with their bags of sex toys and condoms trying to talk their way out of the situation that they have gotten themselves into. And how many try to say that they had no intention of having sex with these children, they just wanted to "make new friends"! And the number of them that have seen the show, but still go is staggering! You would think that watching man after man being taken down in a front yard would make them think twice.
My daughter (MeTal Bean, to some here) is 19 and she has a myspace page that she has had for a couple of years. The rules when she joined were fairly simple, yet strict. She is not allowed to have people on her friends list that she doesn't actually know (from school), she is not allowed to post personal information on her page - she has our home state listed but no city - if she recieves a message from a friend which contains a phone number or an address, she must edit that information out as soon as she reads the message. She is not allowed in chat rooms.