Australian parents were left horrified last week as Todd Sampson's Mirror Mirror documentary exposed Omegle - a free platform popular with teens - as a forum for grooming and predation.
The shock not only related to the creepy nature of the website, but the fact that Gen Z users knew all about Omegle, while their millennial and Gen X parents had never heard of it.
After making the documentary, Sampson went home to tell his young teens about the dangers of Omegle. But it was too late.
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"I wanted to warn them to say, 'Don't go on this site, it's filled with paedophiles and criminal activity' and they looked at the ground and said, 'Dadda, we've been on that site for years. Everyone is on it at school.'"
To support our Mamamia community and parents of teens and pre-teens, we thought we would look more closely at not only Omegle, but all the other places your teens and pre-teens spend time online.
Omegle.
Omegle promotes itself as a free platform where you can "meet great new friends" on the internet. The website, originally launched in 2009, enables users to either message or video chat complete strangers, with users randomly paired with another person online to communicate one-on-one.