Now, there's a new campaign to protect children when they use the Internet.

KOMO 4 News talked to a 13 year old who's helping out the campaign after getting the scare of her life.

Ashlee King is Internet savvy. She 'Googles' and 'Yahoos', IMs and visits teen chat rooms. And last year, at the ripe old age of 12, she made arrangements to meet, in person, two people she'd been chatting with online.

Her mother's reaction when she found out? "I was petrified," says Gidget King. "I was scared to death."

To her mother's horror, Ashlee saw it as just making friends. "It's fun to meet new people and talk to them and see what they're like," she said.

So Gidget King got computer savvy; she started tracking her daughter's online activities and made arrangements with a cop, who started talking to Ashlee online pretending to be someone else.

When Ashlee finally met the cop instead of the 17-year-old she'd expected, it changed her opinion of online relationships.

"I saw who it really was, that freaked me out because he was like this really big guy," says Ashlee, "and it was really scary."

So now Ashlee is using her experience to help others. She's part of a new national ad campaign sponsored by the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Public service announcements highlight how predators work and a young girl talks about how she likes the flattering of talking to older guys online.

According to a national survey, teen girls are the primary target of online predators. The predators are kind, flattering, supportive - friends. It's grooming, but the girls don't recognize that.

"They're the best victims out there," says Seattle Police Detective Malinda Wilson, "because they are emotion-driven. They want closeness, they want relationships."

Gidget King is grateful she caught her daughter in time. Now they have a message for other young girls: "To not meet anybody off the Internet," warns Ashlee, "because you don' know who they are, you don't know if they're lying, or how old they are, or if they're a sex offender. You don't know anything so just don't meet them."

There's also a message to parents. You may think you know what your kids are doing online but do you understand Internet shorthand? For instance, do you know what ASL or WTGP or POS means?

They're all shorthand for quick messaging online but they can also prevent parents from know what their kids are saying.

You can learn the language by searching online for internet lingo. By the way, WTGP means "want to go private?" to a private chat room. ASL means what's your age, sex and location. And POS is one every parent should know. It means "parents are looking over my shoulder."

One web link is www.web-friend.com.