title: Raising Net Safe Kids: The Dangers That Lurk Online Enticing Our Children and Teens
author:  Ryan Pacheco 
description: Detective Ryan Pacheco (Ret.) worked in Law Enforcement for nearly 13 years, where he spent over 10 years as a Detective assigned to the Major Crimes Unit investigating Crimes Against Persons, primarily sexual abuse of children, before retiring in 2016 from the Ada County Sheriffs Office in Boise, Idaho. He also spent over 5 years assigned to the Idaho Attorney Generals Office on the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, where he was responsible for conducting various undercover online investigations, responding to complaints regarding children sexually exploited via the Internet, conducting community education programs, and monitoring of the Internet for the distribution and trading of child pornography files. Detective Pacheco (Ret.) has received hundreds of hours of specialized training regarding the online sexual exploitation of children. This training included multiple online sexual exploitation of children investigative schools. Internet Crimes Against Children Investigative Techniques and Peer-to-Peer software training (P2P). He formed the Ada County Sheriffs Office High-Risk Juvenile Victims Unit, and was the President of the Idaho Crimes Against Children Conference in 2011 and 2012. Pacheco is an Amazon Best Selling Author, Public Speaker, Consultant, Business Owner, and Administrator of RaisingNetSafeKids.com, an online website dedicated to providing parents with resources for internet safety for kids and teens, which includes free blog postings, webinars, and online educational courses. He hosts webinars and sends out information via the Raising Net Safe Kids newsletter. More information can be found at RaisingNetSafeKids.com.
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  emember when we were kids and our 
  parents warned us not to talk to stran-
  gers? I wonder what parents tell their 
  kids these days. It’s bad enough in the 
  crowded towns we’re living in, where sometimes 
  even our neighbours are strangers, but if Earth 
  wasn’t tough enough, we’re now dealing with 
  everyday worries in the virtual one as well.
  I’m not trying to suggest that social media or 
  technology in general is this big bad tool that’s 
  killing us all… that’s so last month... 
  This month, after reading media hype about the 
  stuff people do online – tweeting through child-
  birth, their own wedding ceremony, and various 
  other events in life that really should be private, 
  I can’t seem to fathom what drives people to do 
  such things. It’s not just twitter – on Facebook, 
  Orkut, YouTube, any virtual public gathering, or 
  anywhere there’s an audience, the court jesters 
  show up screaming “Look at me now!”. But who 
  are these people we’re all trying to please?
  Honestly, we seem to intera