I’ve always been a little bit skeptical of the milk-carton approach to kids’ safety when they participate in the Web. And I have skin in the game; Laura spends a whole lot of time on social networking sites, and recently Lilly has been doing a fair amount of Web surfing too, albeit mostly for Flash games.
Now it turns out that a bunch of heavy-duty researchers agree with me. But that doesn’t stop guys like this:
“Children are solicited every day online,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “Some fall prey, and the results are tragic. That harsh reality defies the statistical academic research underlying the report.”
That’s Richard Blumenthal, the CT Attorney General and one of the biggest hysteria-mongers around this stuff. Ha.
What’s interesting is that they do find kids bullying each other a lot online. That kind of matches my unscientific impression, I guess.