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Tue 10 Oct 2007Internet still being used to target young peopleYoung people are being increasingly exposed to unwanted sexually explicit material and online harassment despite the fact that there has been a rise in the use of filtering and monitoring systems in Irish households, a conference in Cork has heard.Senior lecturer at the Department of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Dr Ethel Quayle, said that while, overall, the proportion of youth internet users receiving sexual solicitations online had decreased, there had been no reduction in the level of aggressive solicitation, ie attempts to meet young people offline.