Silly teenager!

Worth mentioning is my own use of the internet as a teen and a reason that it should be monitored more carefully by parents. Myself and a close friend of mine used to, as 15/16 year old girls, go onto internet chat rooms with the sole intention of finding men and having ‘cyber sex’ (chat room sex) with them. We used to think it absolutely hilarious. On more then one occasion we would get their phone numbers, or give our own phone numbers to them and giggle down the phone at them. Only on refection recently have I though how dangerous this was and unfair on the men we would pick on. I am sure had our parents known they would have been horrified.

This memory also reminded me of a time that I was chatting to a guy on MSN who I really got on with. It transpired that he went to my school and was in the year below me. I arranged to meet him in the real world, but when I went to meet him I hid around a corner so I could see him before he saw me. I did not end up speaking to him but I did recognise him as somebody that went to my school but it could have been anybody and was a dangerous thing to do. If both myself and Olivia have done things like this as teens, when the internet was not as widely used, imagine what children do today.