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The first cell phone conversation took place in 1973 when Mr. Cooper of Motorola called a rival at AT&T in a very public marketing stunt which took place in a street in New York in front of an unbelieving New York crowd.

Not much later, in 1990, the customer base of the cell phone industry had already grown to a staggering one million members following the introduction of a second generation 16 ounce cell phone, seven years earlier.

The cell phone customer base today is larger than that for ordinary land phones, and with cell phones now weighing in at around 3 ounce, the cell phone is very much part of our daily life.

From the age of 6 years old and over, every member of today’s families now own their very own cell phones. This is a technology that has truly swept through our world.

Whilst the advantages of giving a cell phone to our younger kids are obvious, it should not be forgotten that there is an element of risk in that predators they meet online might indeed try to call them on their cell phone in order to get to know them better and possibly meet them in person!

Reading through the daily press, it is not uncommon to read stories of kids who have been the victims of online predators and parents throughout the world are understandably worried. Of course every steps should be taken to prevent kids from being contacted in the first place, but once you realize your kid is indeed spending time talking to an adult on his/her cell phone, now is a very little window of opportunity to actually do something about it.

Since cell phone companies do not release cell phone records as public record information, the process of discovering who is actually calling our kids can become extremely difficult. What can parents do in such circumstances?

Well, plenty actually. It is possible to trace back the name and address of anyone who calls a cell phone by doing a reverse cell phone search and even though this is not a free service, at $14.95, it is unlikely to break the bank.