I agree my space needed and still needs to do more monitoring and so on. But I also agree my space is not the only place this can happen.

The person that got arrested not too far from here said it is so easy even on mental and medical health therapy and support groups. On one site all he had to do was match things like weather reports, parades, special events, Stuff people would not think that could lead to a persons location. It the cyber equivelent of scoping out your victims. In real life most if not all child preditors gather all the information possible about their prospective victim. especially if they are not into killing the victim after doing the crimes.

On line they pay attention to the little details and follow those clues to make sure they have availability to that victim. For example he followed this one 11 year old child for a year attending the special events, parties and so on she posted for 6 months and actually met her face to face giving her friend and her a ride home from a party while posing as a parent of a child he claimed he was looking for. He located this victim on a sexual abuse DID support group.

Yea it is in the news all the time about my space and the preditors that have gotten arrested because they found their victims on there

BUT

Just like in real life Sexual abuse happens no matter what the location, race, gender and age. It happens. It doesn't just happen to the children on my space. It doesn't just happen to the girls of my space. It happens to adults. It happens to males as well as females and it happens to black, white, red you name it.

On line or off - NO ONE is free from the possibility of being sexually assaulted.

In real life 1 in every 3 girls / women regardless of race in the USA are sexually abused at some point in their lives and 1 in every 4 boys / men are sexually assaulted at some point in their lives.

That statistic does not say some of those assaults won't and dont happen on line. So so I use these statistics to help keep in mind the situatioo.

for example if there is a website with 600 members equally divided 300 girls /women, 300 boys / men then figure

100 girls / women on that site are going to be sexually assaulted and or approached in a sexual way. and

75 boy / men are going to be sexually assaulted or approached in a sexual manner.

That is 175 people of the total population of a 600 membership site will be sexually assaulted or approached in a sexual manner on line regardles of gender.

Now you see why there are people out there that go on line posing as potential victims to catch these sexual preditors.

It happened on my space but it can happen on a dating website, a game website. And yes maybe even here.

Which is why I never give out my name and any personal information that can lead to my location and so on.

Yes cyberspace needs better rules but no security is fool proof. there also must be edutaction and parents need to do their part too by monitoring their children when on line. with technology there is no reason a parent can't know where their children go on line. There are rotors and internet access companies now offer parental control services where the "administrator (person who sets up the internet access profile that has to be done before the person can even serf the web) recieves an email weekly or monthly that tells the on line activities being done with that computer.

Also children are not the only ones that need to be taught to use common sense and safety precautions -

One of my neighbors children went to a sleep over party and they were using a friends computer -for fun these 12 year old children decided to do the equivelent of making prank calls - they posed as adults on a well known dating service and happened on to some family photos someone had posted and one picture was of one of their parents in the nude.