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Liz D

UK online safety expert proposes Pet Society feature as dangerous to children - 2 views

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Social awareness virtual_world facebook pet society

shared by Liz D on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Conway, a self-touted "online safety expert,"
  • stranger danger"
  • By being in the Cafe, you're bound to meet strangers. Even though all you can do once you get to another pet's home is some pre-set actions (e.g. hug, kiss, dance, laugh, and punch), there's also the option to visit the real Facebook profile of a someone you might not know at all. Conway demonstrated this by creating an avatar named "BunnyPig" to demonstrate to a group of foster care and social workers.
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  • Because Facebook games require players to have lots of friends to earn virtual money and goods, Conway concludes that kids will be tempted to friend strangers
  • And in turn, he estimates that malevolent strangers can scope out kids who play the game. This "Go to profile" option is clearly a valid concern and does exist in the game.
  • kids under 13 years-old could still lie to Facebook about their age just to have a Facebook account.
  • Liz D on 21 Oct 11
     
    This article is by Charles Conway. He says that children must friend a lot of people to get coins or money for Pet Society , a fast growing Facebook game. This means children under the age of 13 are becoming interested in this website. They might even lie to create an account. Adding people they do not know will be a bad habit for children at this youngof age.
Tristan S

Dizzywood - fun free kids games - 1 views

www.dizzywood.com

virtual_world

shared by Tristan S on 23 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Dress up your avatar and enter fashion shows! Play with cool pets, including dragons and unicorns! Decorate your tree house and throw huge, fun parties! Play games and challenge other people Attend talk shows with famous people Explore, go on Quests, defeat evil throughout the world!
Liz D

How Facebook rewards kids for talking to strangers | PR Fire - 1 views

www.prfire.co.uk/...alking-to-strangers-77407.html

Social awareness virtual_world facebook

shared by Liz D on 21 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Stranger Dange
  • Pet Society
  • Charles Conway
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  • It also starts to explain how parents can find that instead of the 50 or 60 close friends that they know in ‘real life’, their child has a Facebook friend list that numbers in the hundreds or even thousands”
  • “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once said ‘If Facebook were a country, it would be the 6th largest country in the world’. Based on current figures, it would now be the 3rd largest country, with a population of over 800 million people.
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