Facebook is encouraging 13-year-old girls to befriend middle-aged men, a Telegraph investigation has found, as the NSPCC has called for friend recommendations to be suspended for children.
Because middle aged men recall what teenage girls are like?
Facebook is encouraging 13-year-old girls to befriend middle-aged men, a Telegraph investigation has found, as the NSPCC has called for friend recommendations to be suspended for children.
Because middle aged men recall what teenage girls are like?
a Telegraph investigation has found,
Not much of an investigation.
Jeez.
Farcebook gives friend suggestions. Not exactly a secret practice. Some are appropriate (people you may know and want to be friends with), others less so.
What was this investigation? Someone got caught on Facebook at work and had to think quickly?
“no, I’m not checking my profile, erm, I’m doing, erm, an investigation, erm, children at risk?”
I doubt very much Facebook is ‘encouraging’ 13 year old girls to befriend middle aged men. Their algorithm may well be moronic enough to simply match friends of one person with friends of another, but that is not specifically encouraging this age mismatch.
Lots of fathers are facebook friends with their teenage daughters, thus they are likely to have their daughters friends come up in friend recommendations.
I fail to see any harm in this, especially when you consider how little contact people have with 90% of their facebook friends.
Wow, C-D, this could be the start of something big:
“Yeah, well I saw that advert on TV and now I’m friends with a donkey and I’m just checking him out. No, I’ve no idea what the naked girls on roller skates are doing…”
A Gaurdinian spicy #Metoo investigation begins…
It sounds like tripe on stilts but anything that hurts Zuckers–the bug-eyed censor–and his little gang of leftist stooges is A-OK in my book.
Lets hope a few million more folk leave his little website as a result of the publicity.
MC,
“Lots of fathers are facebook friends with their teenage daughters, thus they are likely to have their daughters friends come up in friend recommendations”
For a few years the only way to keep up with what our son was up to was to follow him on Facebook. I suspect it is the same with daughters.
Fortunately he’s grown up, mentally, and deleted his account which means I’ve been able to delete mine.
As a middle-aged man, I regularly get Facebook friend suggestions for my nephews. The neices seem to have their profiles locked down such that I don’t see theirs.
Aren’t all the kids on other networks these days anyway?
“MC
November 11, 2018 at 10:49 am
Lots of fathers are facebook friends with their teenage daughters, thus they are likely to have their daughters friends come up in friend recommendations.”
Not just that but, when I was still doing the Facebook thing, my friends children popped up in those recommendations too.
Unintended consequences. As a teacher I am “friends” with other teachers. Some of the female teachets are quite innocently “friends” with their students. Consequently I have a raft of “friend suggestions” for 13 – 15 year old girls all dolled for the camera.
A non problem that’s easily fixed. Just change your FB name to Mohammed.