Another pretty alarming statistic that thinks online privacy and security are overrated..

The most common means by which sexual predators contact children over the Internet is through chat rooms, instant messages and email. In fact, 89% of sexual solicitations were made in either chat rooms, "social sites" or instant messages and 1 in 5 youth (ages 10-17 years) has been sexually solicited online (JAMA, 2001). Considering that 25% of kids online participate in real time chat and 13 million see more use instant messaging, the risks of such children, either knowingly or unknowingly, interacting with a predator is alarming.

How hard will it be for a sexual predator to get your information and harm your children or your family? Not much you can do to stop that if a predator has his mind set on harming you and you dont even realize it.