Free Chat Rooms Goodbye to All Chat
Did Microsoft close chat rooms because pedophiles haunt them--or because they don't make money?
The police had been tipped off by suspicious parents, but even so they weren't entirely prepared for what awaited them in a hotel room in the quiet spa town of Leamington, 160 km northwest of London. As they raided one day in August, stepping over the rubber stockings, condoms and sex-aid brochures found scattered about the room's floor, the cops found a 14-year-old girl who'd been enticed there for illegal sex by a man eight years her senior. The pair had...
Padlocking the chat rooms
With pedophiles lurking and teens favoring IM, free sites lose allure
Replacing free chat rooms with pay versions -- a tactic Microsoft Corp. recently announced it would do at its MSN.com site -- isn't a foolproof way to keep sexual predators away from kids, some parents and analysts say.The Web is so massive that pedophiles can find another way. It's like a house with a million unlocked doors. Padlock a few, but so many openings remain."Pedophiles should be stopped and they are horrible, but they will always find a...
Free Chat Rooms CHAT ROOMS SHUT DOWN
AUSTRALIA's leading website will close more than 100 online chatrooms to stop child exploitation and prevent pedophiles using Internet sites to ``groom'' children for sexual abuse. The closure will affect 300,000 users of the chatrooms provided by ninemsn, a joint venture between computer giant Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd.ninemsn yesterday announced it will close the sites on October 14 as part of an effort to provide consumers with a...
Free Chat Rooms `Get smart' ASO tells its silvertops
WILL listening to music make your grandchildren smarter? There is a growing volume of serious research suggesting that music does have an impact on cognitive ability. The effect of learning to play music is thought to be strongest in early childhood but there may be a connection between merely listening to music and improved intelligence throughout maturity.Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's newsheet says a number of studies in the 1990s showed that early exposure to music increased...
Free Chat Rooms On the Web
Site: PreemieParents.com Address: www.preemieparents. com Target audience: Parents and family members interested in preparing and caring for babies who were "born too soon." What I like about this site: Designed to promote sales of the book "Your Premature Baby and Child," Web site content includes reprints from selected chapters. What I don't like: Because of programming mistakes, most links in the...