Ban sex groups on Facebook

[seapig]

After MrsRickman's challenge to Coke over the use of pornographic references in the Dr Pepper campaign, I did some surfing on fb and am horrified a the amount of 'sex' groups that have been established for a variety of sexual interests, including scat and s&m. Am I wrong in assuming that there are adult web sites where these people can meet online and share there interests? I would like to see a complete ban on all sex interest groups being set up on fb, which after all, admits members as young as 13.

Then report them! Facebook make it known that they cannot police groups, page & people 24/7 & that is why everything has a report - or now flag - button on it.

There are now 500 million users on fb, so they can't police it all.

If fb don't know about it, they can't sort it out.

Is that good enough though? Surely there must be some sort of filters that can be applied. If fb are allowing young children to use it, it has a responsibility to make it child-friendly. I can't think of another social environment where children are allowed but the owners take no measures to ensure it is child friendly.

The responsibility is on the parent, imo. Not facebook.

"The responsibility is on the parent, imo. Not facebook."

It's going to be interesting to watch that one play out. US Law has a concept of an attractive nuisance, which covers things like unfenced swimming pools: even if the child shouldn't be in your garden, you shouldn't have something which will tempt them into danger. UK law has a more general concept of a duty of care, which means that simply erecting "here be dragon" signs isn't enough.

Facebook could trivially make their service 18+. They don't, because the kiddies are a valuable demographic to sell to advertisers, and because getting people on board as customers early is valuable. I think it's going to be interesting over the next few years to watch how real world mores come over into the virtual world. Because if the owner of a pub took to serving children alcohol, "their parents shouldn't let them in here" wouldn't preserve his license.