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If their confusion is carried over into their media activities it poses an enormous threat to their safety. While online children are bombarded with audio and visual stimuli, ideas, information, requests, and a multitude of other exchanges. Their novelty in the vastness of technology can lead to the accidental release of personal information and/or the unintentional encouragement of unwanted advances from strangers. Children are innately trusting and their sense of danger is far removed especially when they are absorbed in play and interaction with friends. This makes them highly vulnerable to the advances of predators. A topic most parents are uncomfortable discussing yet one that is an increasing reality in the presence of social media and online