Nearly 100,000 registered sex offenders were found and removed from the popular social page "MySpace.com" after a subpoena for security standards for social networking sites were criticized.
According to The New York Times, the sex offenders found on MySpace total to about 90,000 users. It is a serious issue to address in the media due to the fact that children and teenagers are less likely to know about these situations. Kids and teenagers are less likely to read the dangers of social sites.
The more shocking and scary news is that although 90,000 profiles of sex offenders were removed and banned, those were only a fraction of nearly 700,000 sex offenders in the United States alone.
"These are just the convicted sex offenders who used their real names," said John A. Phillips, chief executive of Aristotle.
With the increase of 10 percent of new additions to the MySpace community, the technology used to find these sex offenders has caused the registration of profiles by sex offenders to drop 35 percent.
Facebook.com, another popular social networking site has set other high priority decisions to keep the danger away from online use. They only provide a small thumbnail and name when a person is searched on the site. When the request is sent to the user, they are given information about the request, such as mutual friends, school networks, and age.
I am grateful for the increase in security for online networking. It is unfortunate to read about violence and sexual abuse caused online. I have younger siblings who use MySpace and I think this really helps provide a safer environment for them by removing these profiles. I also now look with better attitude the way Facebook runs. I understand better that it is safer to only provide the minimum information to these people sending friend requests.
I only hope that with this technology, it will be able to help stop the fake profiles that abuse users online.
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Nothing is safe now a days but that’s not right for them not to be able to have a life after they have served their time.
ReplyDeleteParents should keep their kids informed about the dangers of being on the Internet and how to be more cautious about talking to and meeting people from off line.
A sex offender could be living right next but if you attempt to have them removed, where will they migrate to next!
Trying to keep sex offenders from having a life is nothing but an everlasting cycle.
Sex offenders are definitely really disgusting people. They have mental health issues that I could never ever fathom. I do believe there should a much more strict sentence on sexual offenders simply do to the fact that they are not normal people functioning nor acting appropriate in public society. But, if you are too young on not leveled headed enough to avoid them on myspace or facebook than I suggest you delete your account. If I had children and they were under 16 they would not be allowed to involve themselves in that mess. Also my children would be far to educated by myself to fall for any of that hoopla.
ReplyDeleteA user can set up a security setting on their myspace profile that only allows a photograph and a tagline to be seen as well.
ReplyDeleteSex offenders are not good people, but some of them are listed as sex offenders because they slept with an underage girl who was willing. That doesn't make it right, but there name will forever be etched into the sex offender list. For example, if a 15 year old in FL. consents to sex with a 17 year old male and the parents decide to press charges against the male, bam...sex offender for life.
I think it's good that online websites are taking extra precautions to monitor sex offenders; the access to the internet these days has far surpassed anything accessible when I was a child. Especially with the development of high-speed internet.
Very well written blog. Keep up the good work!
This is sad the see that nothing is really safe anymore. The reason why they use such social sites like those is bc they know some teens are just not well-educatedd or even have that common sense when they meet people on myspace. They sometimes pose as imposters to attract teens.
ReplyDeleteThis is why if you have a myspace use it wisely. Set up a privacy so that your friends can only see your pictures and profile and if you dont know who a person is that friend requested you, then dont become their friend