Facebook NSFK (Not Safe For Kids)?
October 16th, 2007 at 06:25pm
Deen Freelon
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The NYT reports today that Facebook will be revising its child safety
information in response to a recent investigation by the New York state
attorney general’s office. State prosecutors discovered that fake teen profiles created as part of the investigation attracted “sexually suggestive” messages within days. This is something we’ll definitely need to keep strongly in mind, as our site will target kids under 18 almost exclusively. Perhaps this is another reason to outsource the social networking aspect of our project to the experts . . . ? In any event, the upcoming full set of legal disclaimers and privacy policies that Savannah and I are working on will no doubt shed additional light on this troubling issue.
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1. ctugwell | October 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 am
I went and did a little research to find out how many youth websites allow you to post comments without being logged in. Here are the results:
uthtv.org - login to post
youthnoise - login to post
dosomething.org - login to post
youthoutlook.org - reviews all posts before publish
takingitglobal - login to post
http://www.headsup.org.uk - login to post
There is a reason why all of thses sites require you to login before being able to participate fully in the site. I suggest we follow the lead of these other sites and require users that would like to comment to login.
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