You walk your children to school, and you watch over them as they play outside. In this day and age, you can’t be too careful with your children’s safety.
These days it seems as if cyberstalking is on everyone’s minds, with high-profile cases leading many parents to fear for their children’s safety on the Internet.
When it comes to safety online, kids see things differently than adults. Having grown up with the Internet, many kids feel perfectly comfortable sharing personal information online, whereas many adults cringe at the notion.
If you have kids, they’re probably online. According to a 2009 study by Harris Interactive, 72 percent of teenagers have profiles on social networking websites.
Online stalking or cyberstalking is unfortunately not a new phenomenon — websites on the topic dating from the mid-‘90s continue to receive regular traffic.