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Lucylastic -> 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 7:28:00 PM)


By Mike Underwood
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - Updated: 01:50 PM EST

The state’s attorney general has vowed to help safeguard the Internet from cyber perverts after Myspace.com revealed yesterday that more than 29,000 sex offenders have profiles on the wildly popular service.
    Martha Coakley’s office would not disclose how many of the offenders were from Massachusetts, but said it was working with other attorneys general to make the popular social networking site safer.
    “We have been working with Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Conncecticut on this very important issue in an effort to make Myspace safer,” said Melissa Sherman, a spokeswoman for Coakley’s office.

The rest of the article can be found here
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1013242


Lucy



CuriousLord -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 7:32:31 PM)

29,000?  On MySpace?!  Wow.  They must've only searched one city- or a particularly large ZIP code
 
Edit:  Fair warning that this subject will boarder dangerously close on the TOS, as MySpace is largely a site that catters to, and serves, minors.  While it maintains quite healthy other populations, these populations are the minorities- and not the ones sexual predators are likely after.
 
To comment, if this thread isn't whiped-  I had a MySpace.  Minor girls kept adding me, constantly, without even bothering to say 'Hello' first.  Friend invites spammed my inbox on Hotmail, so I did away with it pretty quickly.  Since, I've found a couple of decent music links on it, as the site was orginially intended for.  Still, I try to avoid it, as it really is a site for the kids.  (While, again, yes, it does have an adult population; I'm aware.)



Sinergy -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 7:40:41 PM)

I get 15 friend requests every time I log on.  I simply respond with an email saying "hello" or something innocuous.  If they dont respond intelligently after 2 weeks, I deny the request.

Sinergy



Aileen68 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 8:02:43 PM)

I deny any requests.  I only use the profile to spy on my babysitter and make sure she's  not fucking in my bed.



popeye1250 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 8:50:54 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I deny any requests.  I only use the profile to spy on my babysitter and make sure she's  not fucking in my bed.


Aileen, how does that work?



TankII7871 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 9:03:46 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I deny any requests.  I only use the profile to spy on my babysitter and make sure she's  not fucking in my bed.


You can relax we used the couch,floor, washing machine kitchen counter top  but we never made it to your bedroom.  When are you going to the movies agian?

Eric



Aileen68 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 9:11:38 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: popeye1250

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I deny any requests.  I only use the profile to spy on my babysitter and make sure she's  not fucking in my bed.


Aileen, how does that work?


I look at her profile and read what she writes back and forth with her girlfriends.



girl4you2 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 10:01:52 PM)

Ed.
quote:

ORIGINAL: CuriousLord

29,000?  On MySpace?!  Wow.  They must've only searched one city- or a particularly large ZIP code
 


i believe it was two cities:

"The new figures were first released by officials in two states - North Carolina and Connecticut - which have been pressing MySpace to reveal data about sex offenders found to be using the site.

"The exploding epidemic of sex offender profiles on MySpace - 29,000 and counting - screams for action," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

In North Carolina, Attorney General Roy Cooper wants a state law that would require children to obtain parental permission before creating profiles on sites such as MySpace, and require the site to check parents' identity.

He said such a law would mean "fewer children at risk, because there will be fewer children on those web sites".

Under current rules, users must be over the age of 14 to register with MySpace."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6914870.stm

the problem is that kids lie and say they are 14 or over.
one way around the problem of unwanteds is to have the kids make their page private and not allow anyone as their "friend" that they don't know.



popeye1250 -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/25/2007 11:40:43 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

quote:

ORIGINAL: popeye1250

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I deny any requests.  I only use the profile to spy on my babysitter and make sure she's  not fucking in my bed.


Aileen, how does that work?


I look at her profile and read what she writes back and forth with her girlfriends.


Ahhhhhh, sneaky!

I went into the sex offender site for S. Carolina and the one thing that 98% of those guys have in common is that they're incredably ugly!
I mean we're talking "you're mother's so ugly they put her in the zoo to keep the monkeys from jerking off" ugly.



Vendaval -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/26/2007 12:00:11 AM)

Only 29,000 perverts on MySpace ?  That number seems a little low to me. 



Estring -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/26/2007 12:16:22 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Vendaval

Only 29,000 perverts on MySpace ?  That number seems a little low to me. 


The rest of them can't remember their password.[;)]



YesMistressIrish -> RE: 29,000 Myspace perverts identified (7/26/2007 4:38:52 AM)

And, there's this stat also for MySpace: 75,000 Nigerian scammers. And that stat doesn't include all the Russian's! *snicker
 
Oops, I forgot the liars, and players. (smile)
 
It would be very satisfying to see MySpace cleaned up and safe from predators. We can dream, right?



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