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If You Turn on the Light, the Cockroaches Scatter

And if you boot ‘em off MySpace, they’ll just move on to Facebook. Simple as that.

Sex offenders having access to social networking sites is, understandably, a hot-button issue for many people. But it’s important to have some perspective here.  The Internet Safety Technical Task Force released a report at the end of 2008, Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies, in which it stated:

“Social network sites are not the most common space for solicitation and unwanted exposure to problematic content, but are frequently used in peer-to-peer harassment, most likely because they are broadly adopted by minors and are used primarily to reinforce pre-existing social relations.”

For some insight into the task force’s conclusions, check out this post by Larry Magid, one of its members.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).