Katherine Tarbox - A Girl’s Life Online

From The Oprah Winfrey Show : Child Stalkers Online, 7 February 2002

A Girl’s Life Online by Katherine Tarbox

This is the book that was formerly titled “Katie.com: My Story”. The website katie.com was never and is not owned by Katherine Tarbox but by Katie Jones who received unwanted hate emails and traffic from the internet as a result of the release of the book with the “katie.com” title.

An honest, eye-opening account of teen life from a young woman who was bitterly betrayed by the information age.

When thirteen-year-old Katherine Tarbox used her sister’s laptop to go online, she found a whole new social scene where people were not judged by their looks but by what they had to say. And there, in an adolescent chatroom, she found Mark. He was perfect: He listened to her, he understood her, and, according to his messages, he loved her. And through a series of evolving e-mail messages, Katie fell in love with Mark–fell in love for the first time in her life. But when they actually met, Katie’s teenage dream man turned out to be a forty-year-old named Frank.

Though Katie was harshly stung by the encounter, she took action. Now seventeen years old, she looks back on her experience and brings us A Girl’s Life Online, a courageous story of how the Internet has vastly changed teen life. As the first victim to successfully prosecute a pedophile via the new Internet laws, Katie’s story has received overwhelming media attention. This brave memoir–a Go Ask Alice for the twenty-first century–is a must-read for teenagers and their parents.

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