Thursday, January 16, 2014

Fake profiles on social networks are most dangerous to young people - Daily News - Lisbon

Tito Morais is responsible for MiudosSegurosNa.Net project for over a decade and has participated in dozens of training activities and lectures on the topic, with youth and parents. Today, told Lusa, has no doubt that there are dramatic cases unfold yourself every day.

“Everything that involves risk is symptomatic people think only happens to others,” he says, adding however that all people have weaknesses and that there is always someone who knows how to exploit them.

When going to a school “is rare that there is not a student, a teacher or a parent with a story to tell.” Tito Morais has some dramatic, like a 13 year old girl enticed by a young assumption of equal age and it was after all a man of 50 years, or a recent call for help from a person who had over two years a “relationship “someone who does not exist.

“People tend to think that the problem is technical, but the internet is fundamentally about people, spends much by psychological manipulation,” says Tito Morais, who work a decade ensures sexual grooming to be the major concern of parents.

But parents who are often alienated from their children do on the Internet, and are also parents to create profiles of children under 10 years in Facebook (social network) page, lying on the age (to be age 13). “I would venture that 80 percent of youths between 8, 9 or 10 years have Facebook account,” he says.

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