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Yahoo Chat Rooms: Children
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This may seem unfair to all the teenagers who feel they are old enough to use these chat rooms, but this is taking a big risk. Many predators lurk in these rooms and younger children may be tricked into communicating with these individuals. Parents need to protect their children and make sure they are not chatting on yahoo if they are under eighteen. Also, Yahoo!'s chat room user agreement now states that all chat room participants must be over the age of 18. There are other options for children under the age of 18, such as creating a Facebook account. On Facebook, young people can connect with friends and make new friends in a safer environment.
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Yahoo chat rooms have been closed off to anyone under the age of eighteen, following an agreement between Yahoo and NY's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer. "We need to be vigilant to protect our children," says Spitzer
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July 24th, 2006 - Yahoo shut down it's user created rooms a little more than a year ago in June of 2005 due to a swirling contraversy from child predators using the chat rooms to lure children. The backlash against Yahoo resulted in major advertising firms such as PepsiCo Inc. and State Farm, the life blood of Yahoo's revenue, pulling ads off of the popular online community.
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Yahoo.com this past week publicized that it was closing their chat rooms when they determined that there adults were using them to luring children into meeting them. This news impacted advertisers and could provide insight into how companies can manage their online presence.
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Nebraska started investigations earlier this year after reports of children having unrestricted access to adult chat rooms, making children easy prey for adults of a certain persuasion. Mr. Spitzer’s office told of an investigator who posed as a 14-year old girl in the Yahoo! Chat area, and received 35 sexually explicit messages within 25 minutes.
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Last month, the TV station found Yahoo hosting a long list of chat rooms geared toward sex with children. They ... found men lining up for sex meetings with kids or to trade lewd pictures.
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