techcrunch.com - 2/3/2009
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MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.
John Cardillo is a former New York ...
tinycomb.com - 2/5/2009
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In an effort to thwart off time-theft and
loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the...
list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius’ today whether or not anyone noticed the change, they all said that ...
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blog.facebook.com - 2/3/2009
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Tomorrow is Facebook's 5th birthday. This is a
happy occasion for Facebook, but much more significant to...
the Facebook team is the fact that over 150 million people around the world are using Facebook to connect with the people in their lives.
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Facebook's 5th Birthday
obsessable.com - 2/5/2009
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obsessable.com —
Which camp are you in: Get your Twitter
out of my Facebook, or bring on the social...
integration? Has civilization been improved by the wanton throwing of sheep, or is the world clearly at its end? Check out our picks below, and we want to hear from you about your best and worst Facebook apps.
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MySpace, Facebook, spar over family safety
Webware.com —
... John Cardillo, the CEO of Sentinel, gave an interview to TechCrunch in which he said that thousands of those who were banned from MySpace can now be found on Facebook -- not yet one of Sentinel's clients. ...
MySpace purges 90,000 sex offenders
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles —
... the offenders following an agreement struck last year with state attorneys general to improve child safety and crack down on threats to minors. The figure, which MySpace provided to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, was 40,000 more than what MySpace first reported last year. Facebook, which also signed a similar agreement with the AGs, told Bloomberg that it is actively searching for sex offenders and is working with law enforcement to identify them and remove them. A Tech Crunch post , however, suggests that about 8,000 of the 90,000 offenders purged by MySpace ...
Roundup: Google sees results in Washington, sex offenders out of MySpace, Motorola’s big loss and more
VentureBeat —
... some 90,000 of them — so they moved to Facebook? That’s what a security tech firm says that represents a bunch of social networks, including MySpace…but not Facebook. TechCrunch has more. ...
News Bits: MySpace Blocks 90,000 Sex Offenders
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... . Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said in a statement that the company had "not yet had to handle a case of a registered sex offender meeting a minor through Facebook." Also: "Unlike MySpace or other social networking sites, Facebook has always enforced a real-name culture and has developed and deployed social verification and powerful privacy rules that allow people to interact in a safer and more trusted environment." However, Sentinel CEO John Cardillo argued on ...
Thousands of MySpace sex offender "refugees" booted off Facebook
Tech Digest —
... more stringent safeguards - preventing older users searching profiles of sub-18-year-olds, and finding better ways of age verification. Facebook relies on using people's real names, and that helps, but the amount of people I know on Facebook who aren't using their exact real names makes that reliance rather concerning. There'll always be sex offenders on the sites, I suppose, and what's most needed is a bit of common sense, and education, in kids of the dangers. (via AP and TechCrunch) ...
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