Question

What are the offline physical and psychological injuries these kids have experienced throughout their lives that may lead them to become interested in messaging with potentially dangerous strangers? What specifically is it about having experienced these injuries that makes victims curious about interacting online with people they don't know?

Answer 1

The world we live in is getting faster and more competitive day by day. We all are running in our own timeline and comparing ourselves to others and getting frustrated on a daily basis. In this era we are witnessing new events and stories being unfold and one of them is the increased chatting online by kids with strangers. The main physical and psychological factors which can lead to this are a feeling of loneliness due to lack of parental time, feeling of judged by known people who have a very little time to understand the odd yet meaningful behaviours of their kids, getting beaten up for some mistakes which are very normal for their age and moral development stage, getting beaten up with an attempt to change their thoughts and behaviours without making thek understand the reason behind the need of those changes. Kids do face a lot of things which may look normal to various culturally bound individuals who live in their own world but these normally exhibited actions make these kids prone to get a vent where they would not be judged, would not be humiliated, would not be made to question their morality and would not be beaten up. Thus, comes the concept of chatting with strangers.

The victim or the kid feels that with a stranger he can be himself without thinking much about what will be thought about him, he feels that as it is virtual the stranger won't be able to see the real him and thus, he won't receive any kind of body shaming. He feels that he can share all his unexpressed emotions without the anxiety of being judged and negatively perceived. Finally, those injuries in childhood has kept a trace of negative vibe in him which makes him more comfortable with unknown strangers than known people who never made him feel belonged. Chatting with strangers is something which may have big negative impact as well as some positive impacts depending on the stranger one connects to. Being said that, the offline issues are mainly the ones which make the victims find a vent in the online world.