Thread: Is social media an open door for predators??!

HEY GUYS!!

SOCIAL MEDIA!!! Social media has a great impact in today's life. Everyone has a Facebook account from a 10 year old to a 60 year old person. Social media both gives us a good as well as bad impact. Recently there has been a lot of issues because of this social media thing in Sri Lanka. There has been a lot of issues in Sri Lanka mostly for girls due to this social media.

PREDATORS: What predators do is they secretly engageon their pray!

HERE IS THE MOST COMMON SCENARIO FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PREDATORS MOSTLY DOWN HERE IN SRILANKA:

• The predator opens a fake account using a fake name with a fake birth date

• The predator will post a picture of someone else, usually a picture of someone around the same age of the predators.''TARGET GROUP''

• The predator is then open to troll around the social networking site as A 16 YEAR OLD BOY/ GIRL WHERE AS THE PREDATOR IS ONLY 42 YEARS OLD

A RECENT STUDY HAS SHOWN THAT ONE IN THIRD OF THE CHILDREN IN THIS GROUP AGE (10- 17) ARE BECOMING VICTIMS OF ONLINE SEXUAL SOLICITATION!!

WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? HOW CAN THIS BE STOPPED OR PREVENTED?? GIVE ME YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!

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Originally Posted by Shivani

HEY GUYS!!

SOCIAL MEDIA!!! Social media has a great impact in today's life. Everyone has a Facebook account from a 10 year old to a 60 year old person. Social media both gives us a good as well as bad impact. Recently there has been a lot of issue because of social media in Sri Lanka. There has been alot of issues in Sri lanka mostly for girls due to this social media.

PREDATORS: What predators do is they secretly engageon their pray!

HERE IS THE MOST COMMON SCENARIO FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PREDATORS MOSTLY DOWN HERE IN SRILANKA:

• The predator opens a fake account using a fake name with a fake birth date

• The predator will post a picture of someone else, usually a picture of someone around the same age of the predators.''TARGET GROUP''

• The predator is then open to troll around the social networking site as A 16 YEAR OLD BOY/ GIRL WHERE AS THE PREDATOR IS ONLY 42 YEARS OLD

A RECENT STUDY HAVE SHOWN THAT ONE IN THIRD OF THE CHILDREN IN THIS GROUP AGE (10- 17) ARE BECOMING VICTIMS OF ONLINE SEXUAL SOLICITATION!!

WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? HOW CAN THIS BE STOPPED OR PREVENTED?? GIVE ME YOUR SUGGESTIONS!!

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You raised a very important question Shivani, we can minimize the crime by making awareness among the school students and a strong law and order against the crime.
If We follow our self discipline correctly then we can avoid most of the problems
I Think it's a both government and social responsibility to take action against it

Originally Posted by Gobi

Prevention is better than cure. The only way we could prevent this is through knowledge and precaution about these felons.
We should be able to give this awareness to the teens, by taking away this topic from the traditional taboo list. These kinda things happen everywhere and the reason why this is still happening is victims are scared to speak up. They're scared of the society to judge them as criminals instead of victims.That is the sad reality.
When someone becomes a victim in cases like these, they're the ones to be seen as on the wrong. We should get them talk and that is how people are gonna know the reality in social media.

Gobi, I totally agree with your point! But, WHAT IF THE VICTIM DIES?? SUICIDES?? WHO WOULD SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THEM?? Even if the government does or did I have never seen or heard that the government ever has given a satisfied decision for all the dead victims!

Originally Posted by Arthi

Prevention is better than cure. Instead of worrying after the crime we have to take some actions before it’s happen. Awareness may reduce the percentage of crime but it’s not a solution. All the crimes are happening because of those fake Id . Everyone have one passport right and one National identity card right? Why can’t we use this concept in social medias? One person should allow for one social media account and it’s should be verified. You may think this is not realistic. We are at top level of technology . If we enforce about it, social medias will work on it. Each of the life is important and priceless so these crimes should be prevented as soon as possible.

Arthi, you're absolutely right! But from my point of view I think not all crimes are happening because of this Fake ID thing only, we literally cannot stop something that is about to happen.
Fault is from our side as well as parents. WHY ARE PARENTS HANDING OVER MOBILES TO THEIR KIDS EVEN BEFORE THEY FINISH HIGH SCHOOL? ( I have even seen a 4 year old taking selfie with her mom's cell phone on the bus)

No there are fake passports as well and they are being supported legally by being bribed so I guess you can understand to whom all the fault falls onto!!!!!!!
This fake ID problem has been happening down here in Sri lanka for ages and there has been so many victims still now both alive and dead till no actions has been taken.Which makes us understand that no change ever will be made unless until WE change ourselves!

Originally Posted by parijat

You raised a very important question Shivani, we can minimize the crime by making awareness among the school students and a strong law and order against the crime.
If We follow our self discipline correctly then we can avoid most of the problems
I Think it's a both government and social responsibility to take action against it

Parijat! You are right, school students should be council led and taught both theoretically and practically about these Fake ID problems. But I think that creating only awareness wouldn't really make a change. While counselling some would not even pay attention to it I have seen it in my own school. SELF DISCIPLINE?? Yes right point, if we start thinking about our own self respect and safety we would never fall into these temptations BUT it is our age (hormones) which tempts us unconsciously to fall into trouble I guess. So according to me it is us who have to be aware of such things and mostly our parents way of raising us!! They should raise us by sharing incidents that happened before because of social media from our childhood on wards however once we grow up nothing can stop as from falling into trouble EXCEPT OUR OWN MIND!

Originally Posted by Neo

I don't think awareness is sufficient. No matter how many times we give awareness to the target group, people become victims of social engineering. Awareness may support upto certain level. Additionally, approaching the target group also will be very challenging to provide such awareness on this. Social media companies should take adequate action or place control in the platform to eliminate fake account creation. As far as I know, this issue is there from the inception of all available social media platforms. I don't think our government will take action on this. Even we don't have a data privacy act in our country.

Neo, right! Unless until we make complaints to the social media companies by our own no change will ever be made in Sri Lanka by the government. So many cases so many deaths, STILL NO SOLUTION! It is only in the hands of the social media companies because people in our countries ( I mean those craving predators will never change)