# Has anyone here caught their child chatting inappropriately online with a much older adult?

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**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-caught-their-child-chatting-inappropriately-online-with-a-much-older-adult/827828 "2019-01-15T22:28:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-caught-their-child-chatting-inappropriately-online-with-a-much-older-adult/827828/1 "2019-01-15T22:28:02Z")

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This is an offshoot of the “Catch a Predator” thread.

[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21432645#post21432645](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21432645#post21432645)

For that matter, did any of you younger (under 30 or so) posters do it yourselves?

How was it discovered, and what if anything happened? I do remember as a teenager, girls my age dating men in their 20s, and later rumors about boys being involed with older women, but this was pre-Internet.