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0 pointsnikanj6y ago0 comments

There's about 25 million kids between 12 and 17 in the US ( https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/101-child-popul...)

I find it dubious that each one of them gets over 50 predators attacking them the moment the post a selfie on Instagram. Either a small number of pedophiles would be targeting thousands of kids per hour, or there are millions of pedophiles.

The basic premise of the article rings true (posting selfies on can lead to getting attacked by predators), but the numbers are just ludicrous.

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SpicyLemonZest6y ago

I think you’re right. My intuitive guess of how many teenage kids there are would have been a full order of magnitude lower. At that count, even adjusting for not everyone being on Instagram, I agree there’s no way the numbers can check out.

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