Is it more dangerous for kids now than it used to be?

[bluebloodinmyveins]

The internet has made it a more dangerous place for kids. A lot of kids are so lonely, they are willing to believe what they are being told by perverts posing as kids. My own niece some years ago was duped by a guy posing as a 15yr old boy. She talked to him for ages then agreed to meet him. She only told her friend she was going, but her friend told me. I turned up to find a 30 odd year old man driving a car. I wont say what i did to him though, but it wasn't pretty.

 

[johnnydawg68]

The internet has made it a more dangerous place for kids. A lot of kids are so lonely, they are willing to believe what they are being told by perverts posing as kids. My own niece some years ago was duped by a guy posing as a 15yr old boy. She talked to him for ages then agreed to meet him. She only told her friend she was going, but her friend told me. I turned up to find a 30 odd year old man driving a car. I wont say what i did to him though, but it wasn't pretty.

True, but that's a different topic.

 

[HirsuteBlue]

Define danger.
Anyway, my take is, that drugs are more accessible from more places than ever before for 'children' to get hold of them and do themselves harm.
Plant food and Bath cleaner to acknowledge two recent legal killers.On top of EEEEvvvverything else.

 

[jamesc]

True, but that's a different topic.

How is it different?
It wouldn't have happened 30 years ago

 

[Wrathchild]

How is it different?
It wouldn't have happened 30 years ago

Only because there was no internet. There were still paedophiles.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

No, it isn't more dangerous, the media just hype up every event so that people think that it is.

 

[Phil Neville Superstar]

Depends where you live really.