Types of Online Predators

Online predators are on the rise since the rain of the instant messaging apps has bombarded the people of the world. They are the people that use online media in order to fulfill their dark motives and may try to trick you teens and make them fool. They have many forms and they hunt young kids and teens for so many different reasons. Today we are going to discuss all the online predators that can harm your teen using social media platforms. There are the following types of cyber predators that parents and as well as teens should be aware of fully.

Cyber Bullies

Online bullies are mentally frustrated, mentally retarded and complex personalities that always in the search of the people that don’t have the courage to defend themselves or they have the innocence that doesn’t let them deal with the bullies on the web. Cyberbullying is the modern world online activity that can ruin someone’s life through anyone’s harsh statements, abusive language and through racist sentences online. They usually make the victims of young kids and teens who recently have got digital citizenship.

Stalkers

We often have seen such adults known as playboys or the type Casanova that always chases young girls for sexual purposes. They usually get interaction with the young teens and make them friends online and start chatting and messaging with each other and use such language that can win the heart of the target teen. Finally, when teens become friends, they start forcing them to meet them in a real-life for the sake of the relationship and often teens become the victims of their tricks.

Sexual predators

They are the ones who make teens friends online for hookups and for sexual reasons and when someone agreed to meet with them in real life. They looted their respect and dignity along with the other fellow friend, in the shot, they may rape a young girl in fun and in some cases, young kids have lost their lives. They murdered by the sexual predators and did not find it put by the parents in weeks.

Teens use Dating Apps

Young kids and teens also use some dating apps for having a relationship with the same or the opposite gender. But in most of the cases, they got cheated by the online friend and goes into the deep depression and stress.

Child Abusers

They do the same as others do, they chase young kids in the online world and make them friends and then want to have them in real life. The Presence of child abusers is the darkest side of all time on social media platforms. They chase those young kids that don’t have privacy on their online media accounts and then see their profile their age and in which school they are studying and then they may also chase them in real life.

If all the upper mention things ring true, parents have to make some serious strategies in order to protect your kids and teens from all cyber predators to the fullest.

Tricks They Use to Fool Your Teens

According to the reports, only 5% of online predators pretend they are young teens or kids on their social media accounts. On the other hand, most of them reveal their ages and that would be more appealing stuff for young female blood from the age of 12 to 15 years of age. There are some kinds of online predators that want fast results from teens and preteens but on the other hand that play slowly in order to read the nature of their target.

There are some who begin with the grooming phase such as visit the target contacts, try to engage the target in the personal conversation in order to build trust and then use the instant messaging and at the end got the contact number. If someone shared a semi-nude pic with the online predator, then they make demands for more pictures and threaten them to share these pictures on other platforms.