Also known as ‘production’: making an electronic copy of a sexual image of a child.

This includes copies of images that are purposefully saved by a user on to a device and the automatic copy saved to a device when an image is clicked on.

In the last few years there has been a growing public concern about the dangers of socialising with strangers in chatrooms, but what do the users themselves think about the risks involved, and what strategies have they adopted to manage these risks?

Some of the practices adopted by these young people are surprising and counter to the conventional advice given by official authorities.

I was Dana, a name I had lifted from a character on my favorite Purple Moon CD-ROM.

Dana was 19, an aspiring veterinarian, and everyone told her she looked like Britney Spears.

When you log into a Camfrog forum room, the rules are made clear - "No disturbing the room with repeated text or spamming" and "No nudity or asking others to get nude", for example. Because there are several people all communicating at once, all you see is a flurry of random messages between users.

I don’t remember the specifics, but I remember we talked about classic rock and which colleges he thought Dana should apply to.This veil of anonymity let an entire generation of young women like myself experience their sexual initiations in AIM chatrooms.For the first few weeks or so, my relationship with Frank Zappy skirted the lines of PG-13 respectability.The Camfrog Video Chat video and sound quality are pretty good and it's amazing how many people are online.It's much nicer to meet people "face-to-face" in this way rather than just chatting to them anonymously.Sometimes file sharing websites will allow others to access your files without your direct knowledge.You need to check your settings to ensure this isn’t the case.