Blog Tour Day 5: Guest Post on Thoughts In Progress: "Who Are You Chatting With?: The Dangers of Anonymous Internet Communications"

Ever since my two sons began using AOL's instant messaging service in the late-1990s, I've been intrigued by the potential for good and evil inherent in anonymous Internet chat, a device featured prominently in both of my novels. Like every parent, I feared my kids could become vulnerable to predators if allowed to roam cyberspace unattended, a concern substantiated many times over by the prodigious workload of the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force. But it's not just a risk for …read more