Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 MG>>>>>> I read about guys like that at MyCrimeSpace.com
all the time.

 EH>>>>> Obviously anti-social personalities.

 MG>>>> Usually child predators on My Space. That's about as anti social
 EH> as it gets.

 EH>>> Indeed it does.

 MG>> It has gotten so bad that "Trench" (as the blogger
calls himself) has
 MG>> started reporting the same kind of crimes on Face Book, Craig's List,
 MG>> etc. What I don't understand is how so many convicted sex offenders
 EH> who
 MG>> have specific guidelines that they are supposed to follow (one of
 EH> which
 MG>> is to stay off of social networking sites like the above named sites)
 MG>> but never the less keep posting and reading on these sites. One of the
 MG>> reports from this morning is that My Space rid itself of (are you
 MG>> sitting down?) 90,000 registered sex offenders. How did they get on
 MG>> there to begin with?  (yes that's rhetorical I know you don't know the
 MG>> answer any better than I do.)

 EH> The anonymity of the Internet and sites like MySpace, Facebook, Craig's
 EH> List and others give sex offenders an opportunity they would not have
 EH> otherwise.

 EH> What I find alarming is that parents don't monitor their children's
 EH> activity on the Internet. It's astonishing how naive the parents are,

That is one of Trench's biggest complaints, "where are this kid's parents?"

 EH> let alone how naive the kids are. That 13 year old girl or boy wanting
 EH> to be friends is in all likelihood to be a 45 year old sex offender.

What amazes me is how many child sex predators fall for the "I'm a cop
posting as a 12 year old girl (or boy) and will go anywhere to have
sex" and then actually go to the place and get busted for intent to
have sex with a child under 14.

 EH> Plus, the parents not watching what their little 13 year old girl
 EH> posting as pictures. It's shocking!

 EH> I tell all my friends and acquaintances who have children to not let
 EH> that child have Internet access on a computer that is out of the
 EH> parent's sight and to regularly check the browser history and activity.


Good advice, hopefully they follow up on it.

 EH> The problem with MySpace, Facebook and other social sites is that they
 EH> trust each person to be truthful when they sign up for an account. It's
 EH> up to the courts and law enforcement to keep sex offenders off the
 EH> Internet. Or, at the very least, monitor their Internet activities.

In our generation many parents used the TV as a baby sitter, this
generation is allowed to use the internet as a babysitter. Both were bad
moves, the later is far worse.


-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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