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15 April 2002
Filed under:Uncategorized at11:43 pm

The BBC reports, “One in 10 people who go to Relate blamed the net for their rocky relationship…”

And it isn’t just the problem of online affairs – you can end up an “online widow” – or widower!

“E-mails sent to BBC News Online bear out the danger the net can pose to relationships.

“My wife of 10 years had an affair with a guy she met on the internet – ironically after I had shown her how to use it. We are still together and trying to sort our life out,” one reader confessed.

Another man expressed his frustration about the amount of time his wife was online.

“I use the internet, but I can happily live without it. I just wish this was the case with my wife,” he wrote.

“When she gets in from work, the PC goes on and it can be five or more hours before she logs off. Our marriage is suffering as a result, as is her relationship with her son,” he said. “

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Filed under:Uncategorized at3:08 pm

A children’s charity, NCH, has found that one in four kids get harassing emails or text messages. Nasty for those involved but perhaps a little over-blown as a threat since as far as I could find the survey doesn’t attempt to determine the severity of the emails.

If you are being bullied offline it wouldn’t be surprising if the same person sent you threatening text messages as well, but I don’t suppose it is any worse than actually being thumped. Being cyberstalked by someone whose identity you don’t know on the other hand can be scary indeed…

The report in The Guardian newspaper
The NCH’s press release (which doesn’t give any more detailed info on the survey)
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