Report, edit, etc...Posted by Slyence on 2006-05-23 at 09:13:57
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edit: Once again - please indicate clearly where you have copied material from somebody else. If you're 'Judge Hatchet' and 'Addison' then I apologise. -CaptainWill
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Do you consider MySpace or Facebook, etc to be controversial and put children in danger? I was skeptical of MySpace initally because of all the media attention it was recieving about murders from people who met there but now i read an article that MySpace is being proactive to teach children internet safety while using these sites. I guess my question is, if you have kids do they use these social networks and do you give them any guidelines to keep them safe?
In response to criticism of its social-networking Web site MySpace.com -- which has been used by stalkers to contact teens -- News Corp. is launching a multimillion dollar public-service ad campaign across its many media properties, including MySpace.com, the Fox broadcast television channel and Fox-owned cable channels such as FX, National Geographic and Fuel TV.
Created by the nonprofit Ad Council, the print and television spots promote online safety in conjunction with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The campaign promotes the children's center's cybertipline.com1, which offers online safety tips for children and teens and cautions teenage girls against men they meet online. Its tagline is "Don't believe the type."
The spots, originally launched in June 2005, represent the largest public-service campaign sponsored by a company that the children's center or News Corp. has ever run. "We have never had this kind of corporate commitment from a single player in this industry," said Ernie Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
One of the spots New Corp. is airing on its Fox and other channels as part of a multimedia public-service ad campaign to promote online safety for children and teens.
The ads don't mention News Corp. or MySpace but speak to a persistent problem on MySpace and other social-networking sites: Teenage girls as young as 14 post profiles of themselves on the site often using revealing photos and identifying details such as their school names or even their phone numbers. Stalkers have sometimes used those details to develop an online relationship and then find the girl offline.
"Quite frankly, some girls think it's OK to develop a relationship with older men online," says Peggy Conlon, president of the Ad Council. "These girls need to understand that they are being played."
The ad campaign is one of many steps News Corp. is taking to counteract the negative press about MySpace.com. In recent months, several reports have emerged of teen girls being sexually molested by predators who met them through MySpace. Parents and schools also have complained of the pornography and offensive content on some users' Web pages. In the wake of those reports, News Corp. vowed to stake out an industry-leading position in educating children, teens and parents about online safety.
News Corp. also is in the midst of negotiations with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who has been publicly pushing MySpace to make its site safer for teens. Mr. Blumenthal has urged the company to institute a number of safety measures, including providing parents with free software letting them block access to MySpace from home computers, raising the minimum age for MySpace users to 16 from 14, preventing users under 18 from viewing adult material and banning users who repeatedly post porn and other explicit material.
"This site now exposes young people to a perilous cyber environment with people posting sexually explicit materials and looking for sexual relationships," Mr. Blumenthal wrote in a letter to MySpace last month. In an interview, Mr. Blumenthal said, "the ads seem to be a step in the right direction" but that he still was waiting for MySpace to formally respond to his letter.
MySpace already has taken some preliminary steps to make the site safer. The company is beefing up the technology it uses to scan photos and videos for nudity. It has removed more than 250,000 profiles posted by children under the age of 14. It also has removed a section of the site that lets users browse for swingers seeking casual sex.
The concerns about MySpace have caused some trepidation among the Web sites' advertisers. Recently, for instance, Verizon Communications Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. pulled their ads from the site after a reporter pointed out instances of their ads running near pictures of scantily clad women on pages created by MySpace users.
MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said "advertisers are for the most part very happy with what we're doing."
In response to criticism of its social-networking Web site MySpace.com -- which has been used by stalkers to contact teens -- News Corp. is launching a multimillion dollar public-service ad campaign across its many media properties, including MySpace.com, the Fox broadcast television channel and Fox-owned cable channels such as FX, National Geographic and Fuel TV.
Created by the nonprofit Ad Council, the print and television spots promote online safety in conjunction with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The campaign promotes the children's center's cybertipline.com1, which offers online safety tips for children and teens and cautions teenage girls against men they meet online. Its tagline is "Don't believe the type."
The spots, originally launched in June 2005, represent the largest public-service campaign sponsored by a company that the children's center or News Corp. has ever run. "We have never had this kind of corporate commitment from a single player in this industry," said Ernie Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
One of the spots New Corp. is airing on its Fox and other channels as part of a multimedia public-service ad campaign to promote online safety for children and teens.
The ads don't mention News Corp. or MySpace but speak to a persistent problem on MySpace and other social-networking sites: Teenage girls as young as 14 post profiles of themselves on the site often using revealing photos and identifying details such as their school names or even their phone numbers. Stalkers have sometimes used those details to develop an online relationship and then find the girl offline.
"Quite frankly, some girls think it's OK to develop a relationship with older men online," says Peggy Conlon, president of the Ad Council. "These girls need to understand that they are being played."
The ad campaign is one of many steps News Corp. is taking to counteract the negative press about MySpace.com. In recent months, several reports have emerged of teen girls being sexually molested by predators who met them through MySpace. Parents and schools also have complained of the pornography and offensive content on some users' Web pages. In the wake of those reports, News Corp. vowed to stake out an industry-leading position in educating children, teens and parents about online safety.
News Corp. also is in the midst of negotiations with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who has been publicly pushing MySpace to make its site safer for teens. Mr. Blumenthal has urged the company to institute a number of safety measures, including providing parents with free software letting them block access to MySpace from home computers, raising the minimum age for MySpace users to 16 from 14, preventing users under 18 from viewing adult material and banning users who repeatedly post porn and other explicit material.
"This site now exposes young people to a perilous cyber environment with people posting sexually explicit materials and looking for sexual relationships," Mr. Blumenthal wrote in a letter to MySpace last month. In an interview, Mr. Blumenthal said, "the ads seem to be a step in the right direction" but that he still was waiting for MySpace to formally respond to his letter.
MySpace already has taken some preliminary steps to make the site safer. The company is beefing up the technology it uses to scan photos and videos for nudity. It has removed more than 250,000 profiles posted by children under the age of 14. It also has removed a section of the site that lets users browse for swingers seeking casual sex.
The concerns about MySpace have caused some trepidation among the Web sites' advertisers. Recently, for instance, Verizon Communications Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. pulled their ads from the site after a reporter pointed out instances of their ads running near pictures of scantily clad women on pages created by MySpace users.
MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said "advertisers are for the most part very happy with what we're doing."
edit: Once again - please indicate clearly where you have copied material from somebody else. If you're 'Judge Hatchet' and 'Addison' then I apologise. -CaptainWill
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MillenniumArmy on 2006-05-23 at 11:27:23
I don't really use MySpace.com too much, so I really can't say.
But honestly, internet dating and all that stuff is just plain stupid. Why the hell would you do that? Is socializing with people face to face physically a little too much for you? There's plenty of people in this world and I'm sure there's more than enough people around you that's perfect for you. Unless you guys already knew/met each other in person before parting, then there's no reason to date some random dude you've never met in person online.
Sure, being friends and all that is fine, but taking your relationship to the next level online is just plain ridiculous. How do you know your "date" isn't a smelly snob with bad, rude habbits? You can only see pictures of them (that is IF they really are pictures of them), or maybe talk with them through the mic, but that's not enough when you truly want to know a person.
I remember a while ago, while I was near Seattle WA on vacation last winter, I watched one of their local news thing, and they did a special program on online predators. I dunno where this took place at, but basically they had two agents or something pretend to be little girls and they would just go online and try to engage in sexual and horny talks, hoping to lure the online predators. Once they've engaged in conversations with whom they believe to be online predators, they ask those people to come on over to "their house." They give those people their address and ask them to come over so that they can do stuff, which the predators assume would be to have sex.
Now if you're a really horny predator, and some young girl asks you to come on over to her house to do "stuff," then yes of course you're going to want to sieze this golden opportunity. And so that's what happens to alot of these predators. One by one, they would arrive at this house they were "lured" into. This house isn't a girl's house however; it's a set up. There's cameras everywhere and men with cameras hidden everywhere. The predator would come into the house and end up at the kitchen. Then the host of this whole program comes out and starts asking tihs dude "is this really what you do? Prey on little girls online?" and would give every predator that they catch a talk about how what they were doing was extremely bad and stuff.
It was quite funny but sad to see what kind of predators they caught. They lured all sorts of people like doctors, surgeons who work at the hospitals, and even rabbis and priests. One guy even showed up completely naked with only a towel to cover up his private parts. And so the host of tihs whole program interrogates every one of these predators that they lured into the house, but the predators denied that they were preying on little girls. All of this was caught on tape, but the predators didn't know it so they think they could get away with lying. And so once the host got all of the necessary information, all the camera men would come out of hiding and just suddenly swarm around the predators just to let him know that everything he said and done was caught on tape.
It's pathetic actually to see people who have nothing better to do but to stalk little girls online.
But honestly, internet dating and all that stuff is just plain stupid. Why the hell would you do that? Is socializing with people face to face physically a little too much for you? There's plenty of people in this world and I'm sure there's more than enough people around you that's perfect for you. Unless you guys already knew/met each other in person before parting, then there's no reason to date some random dude you've never met in person online.
Sure, being friends and all that is fine, but taking your relationship to the next level online is just plain ridiculous. How do you know your "date" isn't a smelly snob with bad, rude habbits? You can only see pictures of them (that is IF they really are pictures of them), or maybe talk with them through the mic, but that's not enough when you truly want to know a person.
I remember a while ago, while I was near Seattle WA on vacation last winter, I watched one of their local news thing, and they did a special program on online predators. I dunno where this took place at, but basically they had two agents or something pretend to be little girls and they would just go online and try to engage in sexual and horny talks, hoping to lure the online predators. Once they've engaged in conversations with whom they believe to be online predators, they ask those people to come on over to "their house." They give those people their address and ask them to come over so that they can do stuff, which the predators assume would be to have sex.
Now if you're a really horny predator, and some young girl asks you to come on over to her house to do "stuff," then yes of course you're going to want to sieze this golden opportunity. And so that's what happens to alot of these predators. One by one, they would arrive at this house they were "lured" into. This house isn't a girl's house however; it's a set up. There's cameras everywhere and men with cameras hidden everywhere. The predator would come into the house and end up at the kitchen. Then the host of this whole program comes out and starts asking tihs dude "is this really what you do? Prey on little girls online?" and would give every predator that they catch a talk about how what they were doing was extremely bad and stuff.
It was quite funny but sad to see what kind of predators they caught. They lured all sorts of people like doctors, surgeons who work at the hospitals, and even rabbis and priests. One guy even showed up completely naked with only a towel to cover up his private parts. And so the host of tihs whole program interrogates every one of these predators that they lured into the house, but the predators denied that they were preying on little girls. All of this was caught on tape, but the predators didn't know it so they think they could get away with lying. And so once the host got all of the necessary information, all the camera men would come out of hiding and just suddenly swarm around the predators just to let him know that everything he said and done was caught on tape.
It's pathetic actually to see people who have nothing better to do but to stalk little girls online.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2006-05-24 at 06:15:58
The real pathetic thing is that little girls have nothing better to do then to go on social networks.
I have always seen those places as having no real purpose. (As a current event listing maybe... Iffy at best)
I have always seen those places as having no real purpose. (As a current event listing maybe... Iffy at best)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-05-24 at 16:09:31
This is the thread of long posts.
These people are stupid. No one should trust anyone (Even people on SEN) over the internet. Espically telling them where you pinpoint live. You can stuff like "New Jersey" or "Boston" but don't be like "I LIVE ON 30 BAKER PLACE LOL COME GET HERE"
These people are stupid. No one should trust anyone (Even people on SEN) over the internet. Espically telling them where you pinpoint live. You can stuff like "New Jersey" or "Boston" but don't be like "I LIVE ON 30 BAKER PLACE LOL COME GET HERE"
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-05-24 at 16:24:11
Uhh, Golden-Fist, you told me where you pinpoint lived, the exact street and number. ;p
And yeah, I think these "social networks" are stupid. I read the comments on these, and most of them are just chain letters, and LOL JUS DORPIN BI 2 SHO U SUM LUV and stuff.
Oh yeah, I'm not worried about them though.
And yeah, I think these "social networks" are stupid. I read the comments on these, and most of them are just chain letters, and LOL JUS DORPIN BI 2 SHO U SUM LUV and stuff.
Oh yeah, I'm not worried about them though.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Merrell on 2006-05-24 at 16:30:42
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Back to the old Sylence I see. C'mon man, you were banned for it before, haven't you learned anything?
The only thing I see bad is the girls putting 50 pictures on their myspace publically, and setting their age to 18 so anyone can view it. Also, girls will post their AIM screenname and their CELLPHONE number.. right in their public profile..
Back to the old Sylence I see. C'mon man, you were banned for it before, haven't you learned anything?
The only thing I see bad is the girls putting 50 pictures on their myspace publically, and setting their age to 18 so anyone can view it. Also, girls will post their AIM screenname and their CELLPHONE number.. right in their public profile..
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-05-24 at 18:04:58
Some people are like this that I know, they really dont care about themselves. Internet dating never works. You never see the person, and its wierd because it could be like a guy or girl (oppasite sex) That would be kinda wierd and that is why internet predators are here today
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Oo.Insane.oO on 2006-05-24 at 18:41:35
No I dont think myspace is dangerous normally they only go after little nymphomaniacty dumb girls that want to act like they are 18 without facing the conciquences of taking a dick up the ass
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Golden-Fist on 2006-05-24 at 19:26:32
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Uhh, Golden-Fist, you told me where you pinpoint lived, the exact street and number. ;p[right][snapback]492028[/snapback][/right]
That's because I can beat you up
Report, edit, etc...Posted by l)ark_13 on 2006-05-24 at 21:05:31
Nexopia, myspace, all those places are just communities just like Staredit.
Make friends, talk to new and interesting people, share ideas and opinions; these are all the goals of the organization. But some creeps, who like little girls, will be surfing through there. And some nymphos, because we know there are, will be surfing through there too...
Nexopia is a place where I can just contact all my friends if I ever need to (I dont have everyone's number..). Basically if I ever need to find a party really fast, I go on there n ask as many people as I can lol (even just like random strangers who live in my area haha). i've even made very good friends because of nexopia (actually around 8). i met this one girl on nex, we talked on msn, we decided to meet in a public place (swimming pool), she brought her friends, i brought some of mine, we hung out a lot from there.
i basically agree with that too.. if little girls want to show pics of them in hooker clothes to dirty old men (and yes, they know there are dirty old men, they have been told) then its up to them
Make friends, talk to new and interesting people, share ideas and opinions; these are all the goals of the organization. But some creeps, who like little girls, will be surfing through there. And some nymphos, because we know there are, will be surfing through there too...
Nexopia is a place where I can just contact all my friends if I ever need to (I dont have everyone's number..). Basically if I ever need to find a party really fast, I go on there n ask as many people as I can lol (even just like random strangers who live in my area haha). i've even made very good friends because of nexopia (actually around 8). i met this one girl on nex, we talked on msn, we decided to meet in a public place (swimming pool), she brought her friends, i brought some of mine, we hung out a lot from there.
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No I dont think myspace is dangerous normally they only go after little nymphomaniacty dumb girls that want to act like they are 18 without facing the conciquences of taking a dick up the ass
i basically agree with that too.. if little girls want to show pics of them in hooker clothes to dirty old men (and yes, they know there are dirty old men, they have been told) then its up to them
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Who-the-hell-ru on 2006-05-30 at 02:12:27
We consider "forums" to be social networks right? Basically, the internet itself is a large social network. I wouldn't consider facebook and those "personal social networks" to be dangerous at all, unless of course you're purposely exposing yourself out to unknown territory and actually stepping into the area. But even then, there are "privacy settings" to limit anything that you don't want to be revealed to strangers, or people you don't know that well.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Sarah_K on 2006-05-30 at 10:05:20
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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kellodood on 2006-05-30 at 13:13:58
QUOTE(MillenniumArmy @ May 23 2006, 08:27 AM)
It's pathetic actually to see people who have nothing better to do but to stalk little girls online.
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I totally agree with you.
QUOTE(Rantent @ May 24 2006, 03:15 AM)
The real pathetic thing is that little girls have nothing better to do then to go on social networks.
I have always seen those places as having no real purpose. (As a current event listing maybe... Iffy at best)
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I have always seen those places as having no real purpose. (As a current event listing maybe... Iffy at best)
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Ditto. But they serve me a purpose: To keep in touch with friends back home
QUOTE(Oo.Insane.oO @ May 24 2006, 03:41 PM)
No I dont think myspace is dangerous normally they only go after little nymphomaniacty dumb girls that want to act like they are 18 without facing the conciquences of taking a dick up the ass
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