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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:25 pm

I'm heartbroken. Honestly Wink

Can't you see the tears running down my face? Rolling Eyes

(edit) Whoops, I should have said faceparty. That's what happens when you're old. Your memory goes Laughing

** Retired ** Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 750 Location: Air

I think you should write an email to facebook condemning this ageist bullsh*t !

Id also write to Faceparty and do the same to them aswell ... !

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

What makes 36 the magic age for sex offenders? Confused

And of course, sex offenders who want to join there won't lie about their ages.
What a bunch of ridiculous reasoning.

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:05 pm

Quote:

"Despite malicious rumours spread by a few people on the website, it is not true that we have deleted members due to 'ageism',"

Really? I'd be curious what they call that then since the accounts have only been deleted on the basis of age. Not to mention that would do nothing to stop things. Whether or not they are 'required' to register, there are enough free email address services for them to have multi accounts. And if they think 36 is the magic number, they need to check out court records more frequently. Not even close to the median age in the papers where I am.

Just another whack idea that does more harm than good. Rolling Eyes

Elite Baiter Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 1455

What utter crap!

And what sex offender would register themselves as 36 anyway? You ain't gonna pick yourself up 12 year old saying you are 36?

Surely the best thing for them to do would be delete the accounts of everyone under 36? That way they are deleting the accounts of all the people who might be lying about their age to try and snare kids. Confused

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:53 pm

Or how about having a MINIMUM age to keep kids off the site for predators to even hit at? No kids, no risk. Of course, kids can lie about their age too. But the kids who do that to gain access to restrictive sites put themselves to higher risk regardless of authority.

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:58 am

Quote:

"We understand that only a minority of older users are sex offenders, but you must understand that we cannot tell which"

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank goodness there are no offenders under 36 to be concerned about.

Rolling Eyes

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

@Wayne, are you in Burma by chance? Click

The headline instantly made me think of you. Laughing

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:25 am

Colour me cynical, but this sounds like a ploy on the part of a very minor player amongst networking sites to get itself discussed all over the net. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:28 am

Whatever their reasons, implying that anyone over 36 is a potential paedophile isn't going to bring them too much good publicity.

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:04 pm

in a bid to cut down on sex offenders misusing the site.

Where the Evil or Very Mad

did they get this information that folks over 36 are more a risk to children than those under 37 ?!?!

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:44 pm

Here's something interesting. I went over to perverted-justice.com and checked out the ages of the people shown there. In the first 20 I looked at, 14 were 36 or younger compared to only 6 that were 37 or older.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

LINK to a local story.

Note that one of the adults was over 36 TWO were younger at the time of the offence.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 13

Juan Freizwidatt wrote:

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank goodness there are no offenders under 36 to be concerned about.

Yeah, since I'm only 20 I can stalk as many children as I like with no hassle. \o/

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:21 am

FaceParty is just attention. Their owner/management obviously doesn't have a clue about the real world.

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