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Social media is a huge part of where interactions take place for young people. However, a lot of these
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technologies I feel are a double-edged sword. I think this case was a wake-up call for
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everyone about the dangers of the online world. Online contact, online communication, and gaming in particular.
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The majority of people have really healthy and happy relationships with gaming. But on the fringes of video
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games, there are these malicious individuals who will take people outside of gaming to more private [music]
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spaces. I'm worried that Breckin the boys are being groomed by someone they're gaming with online. And
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everyone's response, "Oh, don't worry. They're all online with strangers now. That's the norm." The warning signs are
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changes [music] in your child's behavior. Are they being secretive? Are they spending loads of time in their
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room by [music] themselves? They communicated through the channel called TeamSpeak. He was being inundated by
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this predator. So she took away his means of communicating with him. Unfortunately, it made it more dangerous
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because it all went underground. I didn't recognize even how evil some people can be myself.