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Article: Uncovered:Predators on the internet.
- Article from:
- Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2006
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IT was just past 4pm when I logged into Teenspot.com. As the name suggests it is designed for teenagers and despite originating in America it is popular with thousands of children in the UK.
Sites like this are often described as "underground" chat rooms because they are not monitored and provided by the major Internet service providers like Yahoo or Tiscali.
I entered the Teenspot site thinking the talk would be between like-minded teenagers just wanting to make friends.
Chat-rooms see users typing a message which then appears on the screen and in the 'room'. Teenspot has a moderator within the room - a kind of 'room-watchdog' - but whose job ...