Monday, October 17, 2011
Facebook..."Friends"?
You know what really Grinds My Gears? Stalkers on Facebook. As if there weren't already enough concerns about weird, middle-aged creeps finding ways to communicate and locate our under-age children. Here comes Facebook that has practically interconnected the entire planet into one enormous online community. The problem is that usually we don't let the molesters hang out at the playground with the kids...or at the Chuckie Cheese. Now, these predators can pose as much younger individuals in order to gain access to people's lives, and there is no way to tell. Facebook pages can be completely fabricated in order to present desirable traits and characteristics that will attract the interest of certain individuals. In addition to this, there are also now apps that can be used to alert Facebook Friends where and what an individual is doing, at the exact time that they are doing it. This also opens the possibility to make them prime targets for these online predators. Adding someone you don't know on Facebook is a risk every time you do it. They might be genuine people that are randomly adding you or have a legitimate interest in you as a person. Or they might really like the way your living room furniture looks through your window from behind the bushes...
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The only way to really eliminate this is to only accept/add people that you know. Like you said, anyone can just get on there and make up a fake profile. It has become a personal responsibility to not communicate with anyone you don't know.
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