Have you any idea where the online dangers are lurking no time ever before? The online predators and the porn industry are always in the search for young kids and teens. If you want to protect your family including your children in the digital age, then you must know where the enemies are and how they strike on your kids on the internet. Parents these days are scared of these online vulnerabilities but they are not fully prepared to deal with this sort of challenges with online parenting. Today, we are going to discuss few things that make parents up to date especially when it comes to protecting kids from cyber predators and sexually explicit content, sexual violence and how video games are spreading these things in young minds.
(IoT) Internet of Things has Drawbacks for Kids
Internet of things means all the things that are daily life objects that connected to the cyberspace in terms of home appliances such as cell phones, gadgets, PCs and video games. All these sorts of high tech devices have plenty of advantages but at the same time, they have brutal drawbacks. Contemporary smartphones in particular that can be connected to the internet are the most dangerous digital devices that can harm your child to the fullest. Similarly, the smart gadgets and laptops desktops computer machines could be vulnerable for kids due to the following reasons.
Digital devices can be hacked
Hackers have got skills over the years and today they can easily hack digital mobile phones, tablets and PCs whether laptop or desktop. Hackers can remotely get access to the target device of the children and get access to the videos, photos, passwords applied to the social messaging apps and their identity could be stolen within no time. They can send malicious virus on kid’s digital devices and ultimately the complete device control could be compromised.
Kid’s data is collected through the devices
Kids and teens may get security concerns in terms of the companies like Facebook and Google gathered information from the devices and the browser and social media platforms they are using at the moment.
Children easily get access over the internet
Young kids who have their own individual cell phone and other technological devices usually have internet access. So, they can get access to inappropriate content and can also harbor sexual fantasies over the internet using their mobile phone devices.
What parents should do to protect kids from IoT dangers?
In my opinion, especially when it comes to threats that come from the internet of things, parents must have their eyes on their activities they perform on the web using digital devices in particular. It is possible when parents use parental control app on the cell phones, tablets and to some extent on the laptop and desktop devices.
IoT dangers are the most common and dreadful vulnerabilities that your child can come across. Therefore, parents should have cell phone and computer monitoring app to monitor the online activities of children to make sure their safety and as well as online privacy.
Sextortion and Harassment of Children Common on Social Media App
You may have heard an old saying “Where Children play, predators pray”. The year of 2019 is full of vulnerabilities and brutalities against the young innocent children. Today, tweens and teens having internet access on their devices spend most of the time on digital playgrounds. On the other side, that has dangerous intentions always lurk where the kid and teens are present.
There are plenty of social media apps, dating apps and live video streaming apps that ruining a kid’s childhood. These sorts of apps allow kids to have live chat features and further empower them to share self –recorded short videos to share on the apps like Bigo Live video streaming app and many others alike.
Young teens mostly get involved in the activities of making videos in scantily clad women or underage tween to dance online, stripping and make sexually suggestive possess in the bathroom, swimming pool for the audience that is totally unknown.
In addition teens, these days are also get involved in social media challenges such as burn and scar challenge, MoMo challenge and many others alike.
Why teens do these activities via social apps
Teens these days are very emotional and desperate to get social approvals and on the other hand, predators online are big motivators of the teens and kids to seeking connection and validation.
What are the outcomes of social media sextortion?
All the social media apps, dating apps, and live video streaming apps have become hunting playgrounds for predators online. They sexually groom tweens on these platforms, make teens victims of slut shaming and make compliments to the teen’s sexually suggestive videos in order to see more naked skin. Furthermore, sex offenders, these days have trends to send teens sexual explicit or x –rated videos and ask them to imitate the sent videos.
What should parents do prevent teens from sextortion?
- Parents should stop underage teens not use social media platforms that provide chats, video streaming and to share x rated content on social media and on dating online platforms like tinder, Snapchat, Facebook, Bigo live and many others alike.
- Allow them to use social media platforms and to share funny or other videos on YouTube and on social media platforms within your presence.
- When older teens are using cell phone and gadgets to have live chat, social messaging apps for communication ask them why they are using these platforms and to whom they are taking at the moment.
- Parents should use live screen recording apps in order to know what teens are doing, on social media apps, and what they are sharing at the moment to keep yourself update in real-time.
- Parents must teach teens when sharing becomes shaming and the pitfalls of sextortion.
Sex offenders, cyber predators and bullies online have made the social media apps, live video chat and video streaming apps a hunting playground. Parents must use social media monitoring apps to protect teens from online threats.
How Video Games are Leading Teen Towards Sexual Violence
There is a definite rise in sexual violence dramatically in the video games that kids and teens are loved to play these days. Video games are spreading explicit nature of sex in the video games stages.
National Center on Sexual Exploitation
Reports stated that steam is one of the biggest brands when it comes to video games and it’s been hosted more than 1600 video games, that share nudity in the year of 2018 and the numbers was doubled since 2017 which were 780. Almost 35 million kids have bought these sorts of video games. All these sorts of videos games were full of graphics that promote sexual violence, sexual harassment and it continuously degrading the behavior of young minds.
Later porn industry related company have followed its footsteps and introduce its game full of x –rated content that has massive terrific that have broken all the records. This is how video games over the internet exploiting screenagers kids life growing up in the digital age.
How Parents can Protect Children From Violence and Sex-based Video Games?
- Parents should revisit the video games of the children are playing on the digital devices and they should keep hidden on the devices if they have not taken consent before the installation of a new video game.
- Teach your children why sexual explicit content in video games is very dangerous for their brought up.
- The authentic and to the point teachings, every parent should teach your kids about what is pornography and why it is dangerous and harmful. Furthermore, you can teach the kid that they are living in a hypersexualized online environment so they should be aware of all these elements that can harm them online.
- Parents should remotely snoop on kid’s cell phone, gadgets, and computer laptop desktop devices in order to protect kids from the sexual violence by using cell phone and computer monitoring apps.
Video games are full of sexual Violence that grooming young teen’s mind full of sexual thoughts, degrading their behavior even to rape someone is not more than fun.
Teens Abusing Teen – The Fastest Growing Trend Online
You can name it as child vs child dangerous sexual activities. You may have heard the news story in which teens pimping out teens on social media. We mostly always think about the predators online used to targeting kids over the years as a team. But at the same time, we sometimes forget older teens, cousin next door, and neighbor child. Over the years teen’s vs teens or child vs child sexual assault is on the rise. All it is happening due to the youth is grooming through pornography.
According to a separate report from the United Kingdom says almost 65% of child sexual abused under the age of 18 by another young child. It’s happening because of porn online these days, young kids and teens have exposure to pornography to the fullest. So, they watch porn videos and then they try to experiment it on their fellow teens are children that are too dangerous. The pocket porn is one of the dangerous drawbacks young minds that have been every come across.
How Parents can Protect the Kid From Other Porn Addicted Children?
- Parents should teach children about the x –rated content and how they can encounter with it directly or indirectly using the digital devices.
- Teach your teens or tween if they have seen sexual explicit content on the cell phone or any other medium never show it to their fellow child or teens what so ever.
- Make them aware of the child –on –child sexual behavior for their safety
- Teach kids about the body safety rolls and they should apply against any age of any relationship
