1. How did you feel about the Dateline clips in general?
I think Dateline have really good clips because it shows how serious this situation is and how it really goes on with young people.
2. Have you ever seen Dateline “to Catch a Predator”?
No I haven’t seen them until they were shown in class.
3. Did these Predators look the way you thought they would?
Yea these predators look actually the way i thought they were going to look like. most of them are weird and have weird voices.
4. Did the age of some of these predators come to a shock for you? Why?
No not really because I always thought it was always a bunch of old men who did it.
5. Was there a part of you that felt bad for these predators when they got caught? Why?
No because these predators knew actually what they were doing. they just want you to feel bad for them now that they got caught because if they would’ve never got caught they would have continued what they were doing.
6. What did you notice about how much their character changed when Chris Hansen came out?
their characters changed a lot when he came out because they knew something was going on and that they were caught.
7. Do you really believe that every time some random person asks you to be their friend that they are really the person in the picture?
No because some profiles don’t even have a picture or they would have the picture of a celebrity or something, but i try not to add people that i dont really know.
8. What do you think we should do about Online Predators? How can we stop them?
I don’t think they can be stopped because anyone can sign on to any chat room and start talking to people.
9. Do you think what Dateline is doing is helping patrol online risky behavior?
Yes because it scares the predator because they don’t know if that’s a real teenager or the dateline people.
10. This is a really good topic to cover because there are kids ,even teenagers, that go online to meet and hook up with people online thinking that the person that they are meeting is a true person.
11. What have you learned from these clips?
I’ve learned not to trust everyone on the Internet, and to always be safe because you never know who you are really talking to on the computer.
