Million Kids Exploited - AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION WITH YOUR TEEN

Nearly every day we see a disturbing headline about how some popular social media app is being used by pimps, predators, gangs and cartels to access, seduce, recruit and exploit our kids.  The volume of the schemes is sometimes overwhelming and the level of sophistication these groups use to lure kids into easy money or a seductive relationships seems intimidating at times.

Just in the past few weeks we see how India has banned Tik Tok and Likee because thousands of young people disappear after they have  responded to offers of becoming a professional movie maker after sending a Tik Tok video. Several headlines in the U.S. announce that cartels and gangs are using Facebook and Whats App to recruit migrants for coyote crossings and even using online apps to pay the coyotes for the illegal crossing. Then another article about how border Cartels use Tik Tok, and social media to encourage American Teens to borrow the family car and pick up migrants for cash after they crossed the border.

The possibilities for exploitation after reading these articles gives you cold chills. But they cannot be ignored.  Our kids will live in a world where they will interact with millions of people they have met, offering them a chance to make a quick and easy buck or a relationship where they will find true love and inclusion.  It is absolutely critical to educate our young people about how these schemes and scams work and how to be a leader for others so they will not be seduced and violated.

Photo Credit: cottonbro

---

Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/million-kids/support