AN increasing number of teenagers and schoolchildren are using the mobile phone application WeChat for online gambling, as well as to connect with others looking for sexual hook-ups and for the buying and selling of drugs, according to Chinese-language news site Oriental Daily.
Zhang Jing Wen, a social worker who deals with marginalised teens, said WeChat has become a breeding ground for sex, drugs and gambling as it allows youngsters to evade detection.
It is unfortunate that whenever we go to schools to conduct awareness campaigns, most parents have the misconception that all they have to do is to stop their children from being addicted to online games, said Zhang.
They dont know that the internet has a much darker side, and t…
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