SafeSpeedv2 wrote:
You are a sensitive soul ! I was explaining my possible earlier thought ! OF course I have no knowledge of this - am now curious though that you claim to have a great deal of knowledge on this.
Yep this is now all totally off topic and I am going to move it ...
Yes, I do
claim to have a lot of knowlage about this.
If you wish I can send a PM detailling what I know. Either way, you take me at my word or not.
The reason I am so 'sensitive' as you put it, is because it looks to me like your downplaying it without having the slightest clue as to what went on. If you knew some of the effects in this case, you would understand. I stress this is how it looks to me.
And when I said about his account being banned, I didn't mean you should keep it. More the confusion about his totally unrelated sex charge making him banned, rather than the huge amount of driving offences he had and lies he told on this forum.
Basically saying that people will be banned when convicted of a crime, but not if they lie and spread disinformation on this forum?
Edit: I just reviewed my PM's. I did send all the information back then as was requested by you, including the court date and time of his driving offence along with the offer of proof if needed. I said he should be banned or at least made to tell the truth on the forums - I never heard back from this. Anyway, as for social networking sites, whatever the usefulness you think, they are here to stay, and will doubtless evolve. Education is by far the best key, there is simply no other answer.
You can't rely on the site itself, even the best security measures can't do much to anyone reasonably intelligent and determined.
You cannot rely on yourself either, there are some incrediably smart predators out there, I can assure you that you wouldn't always know when your child was talking to one.
And with it becoming common on mobile phones etc, you can't police it effectively.
The only way, is too stress that theres no need to give out details to people. And try and teach how even seemingly innocent bits of information can be used.
I've seen men have a massive library of pictures of someone they claim to be, so they can say 'Here's me on holiday...heres me at home chilling'
It's quite scary really!