Boy you sure are a lucky girl!!
I have a 13 year old girl myself. If she were ever in a chat room we would not have any program on our computer, we would not have internet access. PERIOD!!
Look hun, your mom is doing the right thing for you right now. She has your safety in mind.
Have you read this hun?
A thirteen year old Southampton girl and an only child, Michaela Montague, disappeared for five days after visiting an internet café on Valentine's Day.
Michaela's mother, Sasha Bryant, had banned her from using chat rooms at home after becoming concerned about who her daughter was making contact with.
Michaela is refusing as yet to tell police or anyone else what exactly happened to her, saying she was just with a 'friend'. However, it is strongly suspected that she was abducted by a paedophile she 'met' on the internet. Not only was she seen shortly before she disappeared talking to a man in a car near where she lived, but a stranger telephoned the family home while she was missing, apologising profusely.
Ms Bryant, voiced her concerns about the ease with which paedophiles can make direct contact with children via then web, saying, 'My fear is that meeting someone on the internet sparked this off in the first place. There is every possibility she met up with someone she contacted via a chat room. Michaela learned her way round the internet very quickly, like all children her age do. She was very keen on the word wide web and when we first got a computer at home she was always logging on. Then she discovered chat rooms. I warned her about the dangers of them because you just do not know who you are talking to. People can pretend to be anything they seem when you cannot see them.'
I had a friend abducted when I was in high school, before the internet as it is now... She was never found, that was more than 25 years ago.
How do you know who these people are that you talk to on the chat room? You don't. I could easily sign up here under another name, with another pic, and be your friend.
There are people out there, in chat rooms, that can easily pinpoint your address through your IP address, you don't even have to tell them.
You know how I know that? Because I have done it. We had a member here who was very depressed and suicidal, I got a little info out of him, very little actually just his last name, and was able to locate him, his address and his phone number.
You are playing a very dangerous game. One that could kill you if you continue on this path.
Again, you are lucky you still have internet access.