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Connect with Minors
Predators often use popular social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and Facebook to interact with young users.
They may send friend requests, direct messages, or engage with posts to initiate contact.
Online games that include chat functions, such as Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft, are common hunting grounds for predators.
These platforms allow for real-time communication and can mask a predator’s identity.
Apps like WhatsApp, Kik, Snapchat, Discord, Telegram, etc. provide predators with a way to communicate privately and often anonymously.
These apps can be used to send text messages, images, and videos.
Platforms like YouTube Live, Twitch, and Omegle offer live interaction, which predators can exploit to groom and manipulate children in real-time.
Predators can engage with children through comment sections on websites, blogs, and forums. They often use these interactions to build trust and move the conversation to a more private setting.
Again, it's natural as a parent to be worried about online predators.
Statistics show it is rare that your child will be contacted, however it does happen. So what should you do? Destroy every electronic in the house? No, instead here are a few things you can do.
3 Things to Protect Your Child From Online Predators.
1. Have conversations with your
child.
2. Monitor online activity
3. Know what to look for and where
to go for help.
Our Kids Center
https://ourkidscenter.com/learn/
online-predators/
Bark.us
https://www.bark.us/blog/protect-
child-online-predators/
Bark.us
https://www.bark.us/blog/protect-
your-children-from-online-predators/
National Center for Health Research
https://www.center4research.org/
online-predators-know-can/