Socail networking sites

You've probably heard of social networking sites. If you haven't then you must be living in a cave and still hunting for food. A social networking website is a service that focuses on people being in contact they know or would like to know. Its almost like an online community. They are able to share ideas, activities, events and interest within their own community or with everyone on that website.

They big thing about these sites are predators. I'm not talking about lions, tigers, and bears (oh my). But sexual predators that have been prosecuted and are know to the public. Every sex predator in the united states are posted on the internet and that information is legally aloud to be up there. With these social networking sites, it is very easy for a sex offender to pretend to be someone else that they are not. Lets say a 40 year old man that looks like image A could pretend to be a 24 year old female in image B.





Now we know young boys. Everybody knows young boys are just horn-balls. If a 24 year old girl messages a 14 year old boy, hes going to message back and want to get to know her cause he thinks she is interested in him. Then they start talking more and more, then sooner or later, they end meeting up somewhere. Thats when the man comes up in a white van and snatches him up.

Well that's the thing about sexual predators, but lets get back to the point of "formspring.me". This socail networking website lets people send annonomuse questions/statements. The user has the choice to answer the questions or to delete it. The questions are then only public when the person answers them. Now i don't know why but even when people talk crap about you on here, the users normally still postes the questions to the public. Actually i have myself, but i cannot recall a reason why i posed them publicly. I guess its because the delete options only apears when you flash your cursor over it. The delete option just isn't in your face, you have to look for it.


Formspring.me is even easier for sexual predators to luare kids/teens into their trapt. Formspring.me only askes for name/user name, state, and a picture if you want it there. There are no friends and no extra information to see if a person is lying about who they are. If your commenly sense smart, then you can pick out preditors and people beliveing they are someone else.


If a person has only been using the site for a week or two and they have 300 friends already, the best bet, its a bot or someone just adding as many people as they can. Also if a person doesn't have any pictures, or pictures of just their body, or professional pictures; its probly not a real person. Alot of people also say they are actors or actresses and then have crappy pictures.

Thing is, you can't belive everything you see on the internet. Alot of stuff is fake and alot of stuff is real. You've just got to know how to differenteriat the two.