CHATROOMS ARE WHERE SENTRYCAM™ IS MOST EFFECTIVE

Of all the types of human contact on the Internet, chatrooms provide the most immediate and most dangerous forum. Conversation with friends and strangers, both exciting and boring, are just a few clicks away. The general chatroom is a replica of a street corner in New Orleans during Mardi Gras or Times Square on New Years Eve. Perfectly ordinary people mingle with con artists, Rhodes  Scholars and dangerous predators. And, everyone is anonymous. It's like a roomful of disembodied voices, all conversing, forced by technology to speak one at a time.

Like a living bulletin board, all manner of subjects are discussed in chatrooms. Agnostics and Satanists exist beside Christians and Jews. Religious cults of all types have a presence in chatrooms. Hate groups have their corner of this area, also. Teens chat, Senior Citizens chat, recovering alcoholics chat, as do incest survivors and perpetrators, gardners, stockcar drivers, police officers....and pedophiles.

Sex is a hot topic in chatrooms. Although most Internet Service Providers make an effort to protect children from accessing those specific chatrooms, some of the worst have innocent sounding titles. Incest can masquerade as "Family Fun", or some other innocent sounding name. A "coded addess" many times marks a meeting place for those who want to share child pornography.

The most dangerous room found in any adult area is "Preteen Chat." The very title acts like a pedophile magnet, pulling in children who want to talk to other kids and predators who want to talk to children. Most Internet Service Providers close them down as quickly as they can, but sometimes not before a child has wandered in and been approached by a predator.

Other dangers in chatrooms are instant personal messages and private chatrooms. Regular chatroom monitors, (humans who watch the rooms), are able to see the entire conversation in the chatroom and to report violations and safeguard children. Personal messages and private chatrooms are just that...private, and human monitors are excluded. SENTRYCAM™ follows a child even into that secret area and records any conversation that takes place.

SENTRYCAM™ serves another, important function. On the Internet Service Providers that utilize user profiles, placing SENTRYCAM™ PARENTAL MONITOR in a youngster's profile has proven in our tests to make predators less likely to approach that child in a chatroom. SENTRYCAM™ raises the level of fear in child molesters for whom exposure is extremely dangerous. The pedophile's screen name and the time and date of his approach to a child can lead investigators right to his doorstep...literally!