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  Date / Time: 1/21/2009 11:02 AM UTC

  True Story About Teens Meeting People Online
  

  This is a true story please do not do what this girl did. Do not lie about your age and do not think that all people on social networks are safe. Not all people lie on social networks and not all teenagers lie. Not all people tell the truth either. If you do meet someone on line and you are thinking about meeting them see them on web cam, talk to them on the phone. If they do not go to your school and you are under the age of 18 you do not need to be meeting any one you do not know that does not go to your school or your church. If you do decide to meet someone go with a bunch of your friends or with your parents. Tell them that is what you are going to do and if they don't like that or do not want you to do that then you should not be meeting them in the first place.
  
  This Story Is Found At http://www.thetotaltransformation.com/info.aspx?pageid=749&pcode=affiliate0166&utm_medium=webaffl&utm_source=affiliate0166&dsource=sas
  
  Amber* got onto Myspace when she was 13. “It was easy," she said with a shrug. "All you have to do is lie about your age and give them your email address.” The teen, who is now 15, said, “I guess I accepted a lot of ‘Friends’ to my list without really knowing who they were.” On Myspace, Facebook, Xanga and other social networking sites, the goal is to acquire as many “friends” as possible, a virtual popularity contest that can add up to a whole lot of unknowns. That’s how “Mike,” a man posing as a teen-ager, started messaging Amber. Eventually, he suggested they meet, but before that rendezvous could happen, it emerged that Mike was really a 28-year-old delivery man from a nearby town. Amber had the sense to stop messaging him and remove him from her Friend List, but many other teens and pre-teens haven’t been so fortunate. In Texas, a lawsuit was brought against Myspace by the parents of a fourteen-year-old who was sexually assaulted by a man she met on the social networking site. The suit was dismissed in court, but the problem of how to protect teens online remains.
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