My cousin is 13 and thinks she's 'in love' with an 18 year old boy she met online...?
My younger cousin uses a lot of gaming websites as well as MSN, Facebook, Bebo etc. She has no awareness in internet safety and will add and talk to anyone online. Recently she started talking to an 18 year old boy who says he lives in Devon (she lives in Northampton). As well as giving out her e-mail and adding him on Facebook, she regularly texts and phones him. She left her facebook account logged in on the computer one time and my sister and I saw that he had been messaging her about marriage and having a family. They discussed meeting up in about a years time when she thinks she is old enough...we know she is acting like an idiot and we thought she had more sense than that. However we are unsure who to tell as it could prompt her to meet up with him sooner, he kept mentioning how her family are just holding her back. He looks weird (we looked on his facebook page) but he looks like a genuine 18 year old with lots of pictures, friends etc. He looks obsessed with guns and thinks he's a rock star :L On the facebook messages he kept asking whether anyone knew about him. What should we do?? We know we should tell someone but we don't know who, she'd never forgive us if we told :(
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tell someone! otherwise she could get in big trouble. its easy for a paedo to make a fake account tell her parents and let them take it from there.
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that is not love, it is a teenage rush and when the time comes she will know that she made a mistake and she has to correct it.
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This is how young teenage girls end up dead or missing. This '18' is more likely then not, a sexual predator. Anyone can put a picture up on their FB to look like anyone they want, you cannot go by a picture, or what he says he likes. A little research on what kids are listening to these days, and you ve invented yourself an 18 yr. old. Where are her parents in all this internet freedom? If he is asking questions about if other people know about him, I would be instantly suspicious. TELL HER PARENTS, or go to the police, as this person is definitely not who he says he is. Even if he is, he is much too old for her and he could be arrested. Tell someone, I urge you before your cousin ends up missing or dead.
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Tell someone!!!
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Mh 13 yrs still don't know much about world she thinks she is smart on this one if you love her pls tell her parents because that is love if you won't tell because of thinking she will be mad that's not love you need to tell to serve her
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It's definitely not love. But I feel the best course of action would be to tell her parents, guardians, or whoever she lives with. Since she is only 13 she is obviously immature and doesn't know what she is doing. When she finds out you told someone, she will be upset, hurt, and mad. But in time she will get over it. And when she grows up she'll realize what a stupid mistake it was. Good luck. Please tell someone before it's too late.
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Your cousin is naive. She must have been unhappy with her looks and wondered why guys her age have not recognized her and liked her yet. She's happy someone likes her but it's desperate on her part to be happy over some guy online. A lot of guys online, fake identity or not, will tell a girl online things she wants a guy to say to her. I have a cousin who is 19. When she was in high school, she would just go home and then to school. She ended up meeting a guy from a chat room and the guy ended up moving into my aunt and uncle's house. My cousin lied to my cousins on my mom's side of the family about where she met the guy. My mom has been over at my aunt's house at times last year to look after my grandmother before she ended up moving back to the Philippines. My mom told me that my cousin's boyfriend never said, "Hi" to her. She told me that my cousin's boyfriend was so skinny and now he's really fat. He just freeloads off my aunt and uncle's fridge. He ended up impregnating my cousin and they now have a little girl. The guy does not want to work despite being a father now. My uncle came out of retirement to work again and my aunt always keeps losing a job. My cousin works and on welfare despite still living with my aunt and uncle. It's a sad situation. My aunt and uncle share the blame for not getting through to my cousin and not kicking the guy out of their house. The guy your cousin met is just brainwashing her. He doesn't want anyone who is friends or related to your cousin to know about him because he knows they will try to convince her to stop talking to him. She's only 13 so there's plenty of time for other guys to notice her that are not through chatting online. You have to tell your cousins folks or else she'll end up running away to be with that guy and something terrible can happen to her (pregnant, raped or killed). If you don't tell your cousin's folks then her folks will likely question her about getting texts and sending texts to a person she doesn't really know. If your cousin gets mad at you then she'll end up getting over it and forgiving you. It's good that deeply care about your cousin. I hope that this helps and take care of yourself. I mean it ~ Alan
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Tell the police! What hes doing is illegal. Hes grooming her and this could potentially be fatal. At 13 shes very vulnerable and needs to be monitored whilst on the internet
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Would anyone be so kind to proofread my cover letter?
Would anyone be so kind to proofread my cover letter?
I don't usually ask anyone for help while writing a cover letter, but now it's kind of crucial for me. I would appreciate if anyone could have a look at it quickly and juts let me know about some mistakes or bad stylistics I could have made. Thanks a lot!!!! ******* Dear Andrew, as you probably know, I'm currently working as a Community Manager at Facebook. I love the company, but however great experience it has been, I‘ve been starting to look around for a new opportunity besides. We have been paid peanuts for half a year and we don’t have good prospects unfortunately, as the strategy for our Birmingham team is „internships only“. I am applying for the grad position posted on your website. At your convenience, I'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss the position and my candidacy with you. You can find my CV attached to this e-mail or online at: xxxx My extensive experience for the past 8 year gives me a unique ability to excel in various fields across marketing, advertising and sales. Before joining Facebook, I worked as a Campaign Manager at Citibank, Product & Project Manager in HSBC, Project & Telesales Manager in a multinational IT company and Account Director & Partner in an innovative digital ad agency. I have an account handling experience, thorough analytical and planning skills and I benefit from international experience combined with interest in world economies and linguistry. I enjoy fast-paced environment, I am self-motivated do-er with solid work ethic and I take an entrepreneurial approach to anything I do. I’ve been watching Saatchi’s work, team and company’s spirit since we’ve joined your office and I believe I would be an ideal match for this position. I'd love to find out more about the position you're looking to fill, and I would welcome the opportunity to tell you how my skills and ideas can benefit Saatchi. Thanks for your consideration, I look forward to hearing from you soon! Best regards, Jan Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help
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I think it sounds good, but is too long. I would take out the paragraphs about yourself. That is not what a cover letter is meant for. They are supposed to be super short and to the point. I work in Human Resources and a lot of the managers do not even look at applications that are very long and "flowery."
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>> as you probably know, I'm currently working as a Community >> Manager at Facebook. This is extraneous. Delete it. >> I love the company, Rewrite :I love my position as a community Manager at Facebook >> but however great experience it has been, I‘ve been starting to >> look around for a new opportunity besides. Rewrite: but am now look for other opportunies to advance my career. >> We have been paid peanuts for half a year and we don’t >> have good prospects unfortunately, as the strategy for >> our Birmingham team is „internships only“. Stop complaining. Really. Not in a cover letter. >> I’ve been watching Saatchi’s work, team and >> company’s spirit I'm not sure about this phrase. >> since we’ve joined your office and I believe Unclear, perhaps it would be clear to the reader. >> I would be an ideal match for this position. Good I believe this sentence could be made better by a pro. >> I'd love to find out more about the position How can you be an ideal match if you don't know all the details? You have a good start. Hopefully other people will have more ideas and you can have the stellar letter you deserve.
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I don't usually ask anyone for help while writing a cover letter, but now it's kind of crucial for me. I would appreciate if anyone could have a look at it quickly and juts let me know about some mistakes or bad stylistics I could have made. Thanks a lot!!!! ******* Dear Andrew, as you probably know, I'm currently working as a Community Manager at Facebook. I love the company, but however great experience it has been, I‘ve been starting to look around for a new opportunity besides. We have been paid peanuts for half a year and we don’t have good prospects unfortunately, as the strategy for our Birmingham team is „internships only“. I am applying for the grad position posted on your website. At your convenience, I'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss the position and my candidacy with you. You can find my CV attached to this e-mail or online at: xxxx My extensive experience for the past 8 year gives me a unique ability to excel in various fields across marketing, advertising and sales. Before joining Facebook, I worked as a Campaign Manager at Citibank, Product & Project Manager in HSBC, Project & Telesales Manager in a multinational IT company and Account Director & Partner in an innovative digital ad agency. I have an account handling experience, thorough analytical and planning skills and I benefit from international experience combined with interest in world economies and linguistry. I enjoy fast-paced environment, I am self-motivated do-er with solid work ethic and I take an entrepreneurial approach to anything I do. I’ve been watching Saatchi’s work, team and company’s spirit since we’ve joined your office and I believe I would be an ideal match for this position. I'd love to find out more about the position you're looking to fill, and I would welcome the opportunity to tell you how my skills and ideas can benefit Saatchi. Thanks for your consideration, I look forward to hearing from you soon! Best regards, Jan Thank you so much! I really appreciate your help
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I think it sounds good, but is too long. I would take out the paragraphs about yourself. That is not what a cover letter is meant for. They are supposed to be super short and to the point. I work in Human Resources and a lot of the managers do not even look at applications that are very long and "flowery."
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>> as you probably know, I'm currently working as a Community >> Manager at Facebook. This is extraneous. Delete it. >> I love the company, Rewrite :I love my position as a community Manager at Facebook >> but however great experience it has been, I‘ve been starting to >> look around for a new opportunity besides. Rewrite: but am now look for other opportunies to advance my career. >> We have been paid peanuts for half a year and we don’t >> have good prospects unfortunately, as the strategy for >> our Birmingham team is „internships only“. Stop complaining. Really. Not in a cover letter. >> I’ve been watching Saatchi’s work, team and >> company’s spirit I'm not sure about this phrase. >> since we’ve joined your office and I believe Unclear, perhaps it would be clear to the reader. >> I would be an ideal match for this position. Good I believe this sentence could be made better by a pro. >> I'd love to find out more about the position How can you be an ideal match if you don't know all the details? You have a good start. Hopefully other people will have more ideas and you can have the stellar letter you deserve.
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