One Third Of Girls Meet Internet Strangers Face-To-Face

About one-third of teenage girls are putting themselves at risk by arranging to meet strangers they have met on the Internet, but have never seen face-to-face. The finding came from new research conducted by a U.S. children's hospital and was published in the journal Pediatrics. The study found that 30% of the adolescent females surveyed reported to have met up with at least one person they had encountered on the Internet, whose identity was not confirmed prior to their face-to-face meeting... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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