| User | Comment |
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southernyankee  | | posted 28-Jun-2008 10:05am |
It all depends. Are you a complete dumbass? If not, its safe. |
bill   | | posted 28-Jun-2008 10:22am |
nothing is safe
get used to it |
Matty   | | posted 28-Jun-2008 10:30am |
I like the concept of this survey, but I am nonplussed as to how to answer. I'd say women are safe if they look at Target.com for some housewares. I would also say that women need to take extra care in chat rooms or dating sites. |
| Matty |
Do you really feel that is a fair response? |
cloudhugger  | | posted 28-Jun-2008 11:34am |
Yes, but it depends on how bight the bulb is. |
| southernyankee | | (reply to Matty) posted 28-Jun-2008 11:38am |
Probably not.
I guess I am being a bit cynical here. I don't think the internet is any more dangerous than say, the bar / club scene. Any extra risk involved because this is the internet usually stems from the users own lack of common sense. If anything, the internet would be safer because the perpertrator is leaving a "paper trail" behind, so they won't get to reoffend.
This of course isn't meant to be a sexist comment, as men can be victims too, as well as not use their common sense. |
| romkey | | posted 28-Jun-2008 11:54am |
Do not use internally! Scalding hot, do not apply to groin area! |
| LindaH | | posted 28-Jun-2008 12:08pm |
It is safe for intelligent, aware, alert women. It is not safe for women who don't know any better than to meet guys they don't know in a secluded place. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 28-Jun-2008 12:14pm |
Surfing the internet is, yes. Actually setting up meetings with people in person is less so, though. |
Galomorro  | | posted 28-Jun-2008 12:29pm |
Sure, I'd think as long as the women in question are reasonably careful. Just use common sense. Communicate with them a very long time before you meet up with them -- if ever -- then meet them in a crowded area like a popular park or something. Don't meet them in a secluded spot. |
| romkey |
I think it is a fair response.
There's nothing inherently unsafe about "surfing the Internet". What you decide to do based on what you find there is where the danger lies. If behave foolishly then of course you'll be less safe. But that's true in a bar or an alley as well. It's not the Internet that's dangerous - it's you. Place the responsibility where it belongs. |
| dpurdy33 | | posted 28-Jun-2008 1:02pm |
Sure. The Internet is whatever the user makes it. You go surfing questionable sites, giving out personal info ie address, credit cards #, etc..,, accepting invites to meet people you met on a chat site and other dangerous/questionable activities you will eventually get yourself into (serious) trouble.
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| jess82091 | | posted 28-Jun-2008 1:43pm |
Well, yeah, as long as you're not stupid and are like..."Okay, here is my name, telephone number, and address, meet me there at 10!" If you don't do stupid stuff like that, than yes you're fine. I think people get themselves into those situations. |
| Crayons | | posted 28-Jun-2008 4:07pm |
Whatever.
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| Matty |
To me the internet has an added peril, the pretenses under which people conduct transactions. I think it's conceivable that a woman could go looking for a used car and wind up raped. Maybe that would happen just as often under more typical scenarios; I don't know. But I do think the potentiality of such things increases via the internet because someone who is internet savvy can advertise or chat or whatever, without ever contacting someone. Newspapers and the like keep information that is more readily available to law enforcement. |
| romkey | | (reply to Matty) posted 28-Jun-2008 7:27pm |
ISPs and web sites keep information that's readily available to law enforcement as well.
I've run ads in newspapers and never had to show ID or give them any verified information.
I think it's equally conceivable that a woman could go looking for a used car without using the Internet and wind up raped. |
| Matty | | (reply to romkey) posted 28-Jun-2008 7:57pm |
I do concede that; but there has been much media attention given to scams being run on women that didn't seem to happen in years past. Further, if one uses a public computer for such activities; the water is muddied.
I can also tell you from experience that when evidence has to go through IT; Federal agents lose heart. When they get a lead through a paper record, hopes soar.
I guess my point then, is that the internet can be perilous to women, and that only a few years ago that peril didn't exist. |
| mrmarm | | posted 28-Jun-2008 11:29pm |
WTF stacey |
| kcthedog | | posted 29-Jun-2008 12:01am |
It all depends; it depends on how much intelligence and common sense the person has. Anyone gullible enough to be coerced into doing something before checking out the situation and circumstances is probably fair game for a cyber predator. Otherwise is appears pretty safe to me. Young girls need supervision, adult women should know better. |
| jettles | | posted 29-Jun-2008 5:34am |
as safe as most things i think............. you need to be careful not to be taken advantage of by predators of all kinds, don't buy things you can't be sure about, don't give financial info to people you don't know and don't meet anyone out of the public eye! |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 29-Jun-2008 1:21pm |
No we are not safe at all and i have been hit on by the unknown?
just do not know who is on the other side and who we truly are talking with
Me i have had some scary moments |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to jess82091) posted 29-Jun-2008 1:24pm |
> Well, yeah, as long as you're not stupid and are like..."Okay, here
> is my name, telephone number, and address, meet me there at 10!" If
> you don't do stupid stuff like that, than yes you're fine. I think
> people get themselves into those situations.
Oh they just bug me for my phone number and ask me for sex |
| Irene007 | | posted 29-Jun-2008 4:01pm |
Yes, if they half a brain and a bit of common sense. I've done the bar scene and the internet long enough to know that both are as dangerous or as safe. It's just that the computer gives access to this online "bar" to the very young who wouldn't even get into a club... |
| Psychologo | | posted 29-Jun-2008 5:49pm |
Of course its safe, my ss page says im 19 but for all u know i am some 40 year old perve, one can never know who to trust and who not to trust |
| kcthedog | | posted 29-Jun-2008 8:58pm |
"Puke!" |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 30-Jun-2008 10:35am |
Random vomiting? |
| Opalite | | posted 30-Jun-2008 10:52am |
It depends on what is being looked at and what protection is on that person(s) computer. |
| Jody | | posted 30-Jun-2008 12:06pm |
It depends on what you mean by "surfing". I do a lot of research on the Internet, and read newspapers, and the like, but don't do a lot of IM'ing or chat rooms. I think rooms with unrestrained user-initiated interaction are where most of this type of predation occurs. |
| aquawolfy | | posted 30-Jun-2008 5:28pm |
depends i guess....;... |
| aquawolfy |
O.o
.................................... yipes!! |
| kcthedog |
I just got a gag reflex...totally spontaneous! |
| Zang |
Is it just me, or does this one have Jessica written all over it? |
| HMC35 | | posted 4-Sep-2008 10:21pm |
I haven't been lured yet. :) |
meowry  |
It's better than not having the internet. A woman with a lick of sense would know not to hand out personal information. It's not our faults. It's the men who make the world a worse place. And they're the same men who make RL a dangerous place for women (and children). May they burn in hell. |
