Watchdog warns against the dangers of social networking

rock n roll fan.Nov 24th, 2007 - 05:34:00

further more , who exactly is the 'information' comissioners 'office'! i didn't read the article . the headline is so bizzare . i had to comment .

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terrie myrickNov 30th, 2007 - 23:31:46

In regards to a safe social network, here is a site that I discovered recently. This site appears to be have a lot of safety features in place.

This is a news clip about this site:
Our-Social.com Offers a Safe, Family-Friendly Social Networking Alternative

Nov. 13, 2007 – At a loss for family-friendly online social networking? Searching for a Web-based community that’s easy to join and not just for younger people? Our-Social.com offers a user-friendly environment free of profanity and pornographic material so that members can safely make new friends of all ages as well as connect with existing friends and family. As evidence of Our-Social.com’s commitment to extending a hand to everyone seeking a safe online community, membership is free.

'Our-Social is the clean alternative to the prominent social networking sites,' said founder Theresa Adams. The site’s word filter prevents members from being exposed to profanity and lewd or sexual comments - as well as racial slurs and other hate speech. To further ensure that the site remains clear of offensive material and is safe for all ages, Adams has all pictures, video and audio clips go through an approval process – which takes places within 24 hours of submission - before they are posted.
In addition, Our-Social discourages members from ever publicly displaying information such as their e-mail address, real name and geographical location. As another safety precaution, Our-Social does not have a chat area but does provide a members-only forum. The forum is moderated and has several different threads under the main categories of Family, Health, Faith, Pets and Social Stuff. In keeping with the site’s mission of providing a safe, clean environment, the forum does not allow images except for a profile picture. 'The profile picture does not have to be an actual photo of a person,' said Adams. 'Members can use an alternative image that fits their personality, such as a funny picture, cartoon, an animal picture or so on.'

Members have their own account pages, which serve as personalized control panels, where users can manage all aspects of their account. Management activities include editing profiles, setting privacy levels for the account, creating or editing articles, checking mail, inviting friends to join, sending out friendship requests and creating numerous picture, video and audio albums.

The albums (also called audio sets and video sets) can hold multiple photo, videos or audio files, and the titles of each appear on the creator’s profile page. Other site members can leave comments in the albums, and individual albums can be set to different privacy levels. That means while all members may be able to view a particular album, another album from the same person might only be accessible to members who have been designated as friends.

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no nameApr 6th, 2009 - 14:11:45

if people are going to be that dumb and lye about their age or all the other stuff they do they should be banned to use in a schools computers.

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no names brotherApr 6th, 2009 - 14:47:55

so basically what their trying to say is that most of the people using these sites are getting in trouble or not using it proper they give personal information so for that these web sites should be banned from all school computers so that the students are safe in school at home their in trouble if they give personal information or talk to someone they dont know

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