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Pokemon Go is a new handheld game for the Android and iPhone systems that gives kids (and adult-kids) a chance to go outside and catch Pokemon, battle them, and make them stronger using a half-baked augmented reality system. Basically your goal is to catch them all but you have to go all over the place to find different Pokemon. You can find them in your house, in your yard, in your neighbor’s yard, at a public toilet, or in a warzone. The Pokemon appear pretty much randomly and capturing them is an exciting experience just like raising your tomogachi was back in the late 90s, your invisible dog in the late 80s and your pet rock if you’re old enough to remember. Simply put, it’s an addicting RPG mixed with real life, hence “augmented reality”.Being the fact that kids and teens were well, away from the outdoors for almost a decade now – these vast wastelands what we used to call parks are now populating again with a mix of kids and teens and surprisingly enough it’s almost like humans and the outdoors were meant to be! As brilliant as this game is to get kids to run around outside and turn their peg legs into muscular giants, there’s a group of people that anticipated their return and decided to strike at a whim’s notice. You see, now that kids are out flaunting around their phones and ignoring their environment (that hasn’t changed much), they can easily get robbed.In Pokemon Go, you have to walk to designated areas (hopefully safe-ish) to find certain Pokemon and there are even things called Pokestops. You can use Pokemon Go to create a Pokestop to lure other players, and those other players will come by and try and find rare Pokemon with you. Well, these robbers, let’s call them Team Rocket, used Pokemon Go to find out where these kids are going and rob them in broad daylight.
These robbers could steal the kid’s phone, money, and other belongings and many kids / teenagers have been threatened already at gunpoint / knifepoint if that paints a clearer picture for you. Various police departments around the United States are working towards informing parents about how serious this game’s accurate GPS system is and how dangerous it can be. One day it could be a phone taken away, another day it could be a kid or a life.Please take the time to educate your children about this app (and other apps that are similar) and strategies to allow them to keep playing the game but in such a way that it’s safer such as accompanying them, not allowing them to attend Pokestops on their own, and of course making sure that they know what to do if they encounter “stranger danger”.
Notice: There may be some confusion about whether or not Pokemon Go in public may be dangerous for kids, but rest assured that there have only been about a dozen cases reported as of writing this article. The idea behind the article was to educate about the possibility based off of what has already happened and should not be used to judge the game, community, or local environment based off of what happened in Missouri.
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