The good news is that Facebook is stepping up its efforts to control the online predators, mainly because they have been told they have too.
From Web Pro News
"Three weeks ago, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced he was subpoenaing Facebook to learn how the social networking site dealt with users who were reported for sexually soliciting underage users. The notice came after New York conducted an undercover operation posing as teenagers on the site and reporting the illicit advances that adults made on their profiles."
"With the new plan, Facebook will place user complaints about “nudity, pornography, harassment, (and) unwelcome contact” into a high-priority category that will require a response from the site within 24 hours. “We’re committing to a 24-hour service level on addressing those complaints,” Kelly asserted. These complaints can be filed anonymously through new links throughout Facebook’s site.
Some language on the site will also be altered to make it clear to concerned parents that neither Facebook nor any other site on the Internet is wholly safe for children."
Of course Facebook isn't the only place where predators hang out, they are on other sites as well but most of those would if you made a complaint do something about it, Facebook wasn't doing anything and now it is which of course is a good thing .
2 comments:
Ain't no pedophiles on Facebook. Just elitist college students and grads.
that's exactly what Facebook said unfortunately when "fake" profiles where made to catch the undesirables they caught a few. Read the link and you will see.
Then again you make a profile saying you are a 12-15yr old boy/girl on any site its going to get hit with a few weirdos, don't matter where it is I've had strange men hit on me and I'm 41
You ever gone in a chat room on a girls name? Try it one day see how many "hits" you get its basically the same thing
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