The predator checks the child's profile to gain further intelligence information about how to approach the child.
What AOL lacks in steam rooms and towel-wrapped men it makes up for in steamy chat and naked pictures zooming across its servers.
“Gay OL,” as many gay men have christened it, is home to hundreds of thousands of men “window-shopping” in the M4M (men for men) chat rooms.
“I don’t have to get dressed up and go to a bar, drink, get my clothes full of smoke and wonder if anybody’s interested.” But avoiding the bar scene is only part of it.
At 18 million members, AOL is so big you can find just about everything — or anyone — you’re looking for.
Now it may feel more like a minefield -- seductive on the surface, but seeded with subterranean hazards.
Few families have escaped the warning sirens about sexual predators stalking children via the computer.
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A look at the potential cyberhazards for kids/teenagers playing computer games.
Chatting in the room itself is not the preferred method of a predator.
Predators use chat rooms as a hunting ground to locate their victim. Is there a child of the sex and age they are looking for in the chat rooms?