These may be provided to children by messages to the screen of a targeted child. The perceived safety of the home setting, combined with our children's natural trust, may lead them to forget that these people are strangers. This makes it easier for pedophiles to prey on children who would otherwise never talk to a stranger. User computers indicate that buddies are online. User profiles are used to match people having similar interests.
Buddies are often strangers when matched.
It is very easy to make misrepresentations. Access by children to pornography Pornography which is legally restricted to adults in the physical world can easily be accessed by children on the Internet. A child who can not browse through a sexually explicit magazine in a store can view explicit images online. Also, children can easily access obscene materials, which are illegal e ven for adults. Children can be exposed to this content intentionally or unintentionally.