North American Division
Office of Education
Presents -
Larry Blackmer,
Vice President
What are the Major Areas of
Concern on the Web?
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Cyberbullying
Sexual Predators
Pornography
Damaged Reputations
Hate Sites
Online Gambling
Internet Addiction
Cyberbullying
1. What is it?
a. Sending hateful messages
b. Spreading lies about someone
c. Making nasty comments on socialnetworking sites
d. Creating a website to bash reputations
e. Posting lewd or unflattering images on
the web
Cyberbullying
2. How is it different that Schoolyard
bullying
a) Teachers can’t intervene
b) Online, there is no one to filter it
c) Cyberbullies do not witness the victims
reaction, so little remorse
d) Wider audience
e) No ability to control the outcome
f) Kids often do not report – fear of
overreaction
Cyberbullying
3. Internet Safety Tips
a) Keep others from using your email and
Internet accounts – know your kids passwords
b) Block sender on IM or other sites
c) Delete email account and set up new one
d) Tell you child to not respond to rude or
harassing emails. If it continues – call the
police – keep a record of the emails as
proof
Sexual Predators
1. About 1 in 7 children have been sexually
solicited online (National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children)
2. Target children in chat rooms, social
networking sites and blogs
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MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, etc -profiles
contain centralized information such as photos,
personal interests and blogs as well as links to
friends
Obviously a hot spot to research for victims, and
groom them as friends
3. Over 600,000 children are reported
missing each year (over 2,000/day)
4. 58,200 are abducted by nonfamily
members
5. 115 are the victims of the most serious
long-term abductions
a. 56% recovered alive
b. 40% killed
6. 203,900 children are the victims of
family abductions
7. 74% of children who are murdered
are dead within the first three hours!
Sexual Predators
Internet Safety Tips
1. If your child is on a social networking site, join
and become involved
2. Tell child to NEVER give last names, addresses,
phone numbers, school names, or other
information (like where they will be this weekend)
3. Learn about privacy settings. Not everyone online
is who they say they are. Never meet anyone from
online in real life, no matter what.
4. Put computer in common area and supervise
On the Internet no one knows I’m a dog
5. Know short hand POS (parent over shoulder),
LMIRL (let’s meet in real life), etc.
On-line Issues
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One in five children (10-17 years) receive
unwanted sexual solicitations on-line!
In 2002 there were 785 documented cases of
“travelers”, either the child or adult traveling to
make physical contact after meeting on-line.
One in thirty three received aggressive sexual
solicitation
One in 17 was threatened or harassed
Less than 10% reported
Only 17% of youth and 10% of parents knew
where to go for help
Pornography
1. Usually considered the most dangerous.
2. According to Christianity Today about 30% of
clergy in the USA are addicted to online porn
3. Two ways
a. Inadvertent
i. Innocent, imprecise, misdirected searches
In an effort to increase traffic to their
sites, pornographic Web site operators use
popular terms.
ii. When children key in their favorite search
terms, pornographic sites pop up along
with the sites the children are seeking.
i. Stealth sites and misleading URLs
Many children seeking information on the nation's White
House, may find themselves on a porn site instead of the
official site at www.whitehouse.gov
ii. Pornographers purchase domain names such as the .com
equivalent of a popular .gov or .org website, knowing full
well that web surfers are likely to end up on their
pornographic site instead of their desired destination.
iii. Innocent word searches
Innocent word searches on many popular search engines
can lead an unsuspecting child to numerous porn sites.
Examples include such words as toys, boys, Britney Spears
and dogs.
iv. The misuse of brand names
a) According to a recent study in England, 26 popular
children's characters, such as Pokemon, My Little
Pony and Action Man, revealed thousands of links to
porn sites.
b) 30% of the sites were hard-core. (Envisional 2000)
c) 25% of porn sites are estimated to misuse popular
brand names in search engine magnets, metatags and
links.
d) Three of the top ten brand names used are
specifically targeted to children – Disney, Barbie, and
Nintendo. (Cyveillance Survey, 1999)
B. Willful – to see the same site 100 times or to see 10,000
hits….
Pornography
1. There are now at least 9,300,000 porn site on the webno has been able to count them all- over 200 new each
day (US News & World Report, 3/27/05)
2. 87% of teens have encountered offensive web sites (Safe
America Foundation, 9/30/04)
3. 75% of parents say they know where children spend
time on-line, the truth:
4. 73% of teens say they accessed porn sites, 39%
offensive music, 25% sexual content, 20% violence
(WebSense, USA Today, 10/10-12/00)
Pornography, cont.
4. 62% of parents are unaware that their child has accessed
objectionable websites (Yankelovich Partner Study, 9/99)
5. The majority of teenager’s online activity occurs at
home, right after school, when working parents are not
at home (Arbition New Media Study, 8/02)
6. Students were most at risk for cybersex compulsions due
to a combo of increased access to computers, more
private leisure time. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study,
2000)
7. The FBI says that child porn and the sexual exploitation
of children through online means is the most significant
crime problem that the FBI confronts.
Pornography, cont
8. 3,917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short
stories, and film clips online. Of stored images on Usenet
groups, 83.5 are pornographic (Carnegie Mellon Univ. 02)
9. Playboy’s website had over 5.7 million hits in a seven day
period
10. 98.9% of the consumers of online porn are men
11. At least 150,000 people chat on 500-700 “sex talk” line each
day (Boardwatch Magazine)
12. Today’s computers allow users to manipulate sexual
situations
Pornography, cont.
13. Porn can be as mood altering and addictive as
narcotics. (Richard Drake, Brigham Young Univ.)
14. The average age of first-time sex addicts is 11yrs old!
15. Online addition is one of the fastest growing additions
in America
Damaging of Reputations
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Camera phones, digital cameras, video
cameras web cams – think before you post –
once it is there it is there forever
Child’s online reputation – growing concern
– jobs, schools, colleges, clubs, etc check
online before acceptance Zoominfo.com
Post pictures as a game, or as oneupmanship
Internet Safety Tips
1. Even if you delete a photo, who has copied it, and
how will they use it?
2. Don’t allow anyone to ANY pictures of you that you
would not show to your parent
3. Talk to your child about consequences1. 17 yr old posts a fake picture looking drunk –
colleges may not accept
2. Posting of pictures may be child porn, labeled as
predator for the rest of your life.
3. Sharing of pictures may cause harm - suicide
Hate Sites
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, Federal agents investigating at least 70
bombings and 12 attempted bombings between 1989
and June 1999 recovered bomb-making literature that
the suspects had obtained from the Internet. In these
investigations, the possession of bomb-making literature
has been taken by law enforcement authorities as strong
circumstantial evidence that this literature has been
used to plan crimes.
Like other extremist material on the Internet, bomb-making
manuals are readily accessible to children. In fact, these tracts
have already been accessed by eager, impressionable
youngsters.
• The Washington Post has described discussions among
14-year-olds about "which propellants are best to use,
which Web sites have the best recipes and whether tin or
aluminum soda cans make better bomb casings.“
• Children have used recipes found on the Web to create
and detonate bombs. For example, two 15-year-old boys
from Orem, Utah, landed in a juvenile-detention center after
they constructed a pipe bomb using online instructions.
Similarly, three high school students in Ogden, Utah, who
ignited a bomb at a Jehovah's Witnesses church later told
police they learned how to make the device from a Web
page devoted to the Anarchists Cookbook.
Marrying the Internet to hateful rock
music, and videos; hate groups
attempt to use this medium to win
the hearts and minds of our young
people.
There are many forms of hate groups:
•Racial/ethnic
•Gay/lesbian
•Black/white
•Anti-semantic or religious
•Anti-abortion
•Anti-government
•Anti-Church
All are out of place in a family home!
Addiction to being online is one of the most
time consuming things that happen in
today’s homes, email, on line shopping, news,
sports, surfing, chatting, etc.
On-line Gambling
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Strictly speaking, it is illegal for U. S.
residents to gamble over a (telephone)
wire. This would seem to include Internet
gambling. However, most Internet
casinos are physically located outside the
United States in countries where their
activities are completely legal.
Profile of an On-Line Gambler
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High School Education or beyond
White
Ages 20-49 years
Reported Most Lost /One Week in the last 6 months was > $500
Reported Total Amount Lost Weekly was > $100
Employed Full-time
Had 1 to 3 children
Male
Married
Reported age was less than 18 years when first gambled
Reported debt as a result of gambling at > $5000
Reported credit card debt > $5000
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38%
What is our responsibility?
Be parents, set limits
 Be good examples
 God wants us to be loyal servants
 Fidelity – What is fidelity?
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Fidelity
Faithfulness to something to which
one is bound by duty or pledge
 Faithfulness that is steadfast in the
face of temptation
 The ability to reproduce exactly an
effect or sound… Hi-Fi
 This is what God needs from us..
Spiritual Hi-Fi!
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No temptation has seized you except
what is common to man.
And God is faithful; he will not let you be
tempted beyond what you can bear.
But when you are tempted, he will also provide a
way out so that you can stand up under it.
1 Corinthians 10:13
Our children are our future!
It’s our responsibility to be faithful
husbands and fathers, to be morally
sound wives and mothers.
It does not happen by chance.
Seek help!
www.larryblackmer.com