Facebook stalker continues to harass 12-year-old girl
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[quote] Hot on the heels of a woman who's suing Facebook after the world's largest social network bounced her account (for reasons that remain unclear), comes a story from Australia about a mother who can't get Facebook to shut down a stalker using the site to harass her 12-year-old daughter and her friends.
"A Sydney mother-of-three, her daughter and daughter's friends have been subjected to a two-week ordeal at the hands of a Facebook stalker and they have been unable to get the social networking company to intervene," the Sydney Morning Herald reported Thursday.
This dramatic tale of a Facebook stalker hacking and harassing young girls on Facebook speaks to a couple of issues regularly faced in this brave new world of social media — the dangers awaiting children online and Facebook's oft-complained-about lack of customer service.
According to the newspaper story, the stalker gained access to the daughter's account and used her identity to gather information about her (including her address) from her Facebook friends, unbeknownst to the girl. The hacker was discovered, but continued to harass the girl, her mother and friends with threatening messages, pornographic images and the like.
Unable to shut down her daughter's profile, "We tried reporting [the account] on Facebook," the mother said. "We got all her friends to report it on Facebook. Facebook won't reply. They don't want to contact us. They don't want to know about it, basically. You cannot ring Facebook."
In a statement to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Australia-based public relations firm that represents the social network in that country pointed out Facebook's 14-year-old minimum age requirement. The firm also said that "Facebook cooperates with Australian law enforcement agencies to help ensure that Facebook remains a safe place for our users to connect with friends and family."
Authorities investigating the case first told the mother they had the ability to shut down her daughter's account, but eventually contacted her telling her they were unable to, and the profile remains live.
Update: A spokesperson told msnbc.com that Facebook is aware of this case and have been working closely with local law enforcement.[/quote]
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freaking pervs stalking 12-year-olds
[QUOTE]Authorities investigating the case first told the mother they had the ability to shut down her daughter's account, but eventually contacted her telling her they were unable to, and the profile remains live.[/QUOTE]
what.
What's a 12yr old doing with FB profile?? I thought fb was 13+
i knew the inability to delete facebooks would pop up in the news sometime.
[QUOTE=wheresmyfish;24558538]what.[/QUOTE]
I concur. That sounds pretty.. unusual.
"yeah lady we cant figure this internet shit out., maybe hes a haxxer or something i dunno"
I'm almost positive if they contacted the facebook administrators, they could just directly remove the account. I'm pretty sure you can get banned/removed on facebook.
[QUOTE=Vikingur;24558540]What's a 12yr old doing with FB profile?? I thought fb was 13+[/QUOTE]
kids do that sorta thing all the time
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;24558581]I concur. That sounds pretty.. unusual.
"yeah lady we cant figure this internet shit out., maybe hes a haxxer or something i dunno"[/QUOTE]
did they backtrace him?
[QUOTE=Lambeth;24558584]kids do that sorta thing all the time[/QUOTE]
Holy shit you can lie to get through an age gateway?
[QUOTE=Vikingur;24558540]What's a 12yr old doing with FB profile?? I thought fb was 13+[/QUOTE]
I thought that Grand Theft Auto was for people over 17. Little kids play it, though. So why not Facebook?
Whatever happened to the panic button :downs:
[QUOTE=alienmartian23;24558590]did they backtrace him?[/QUOTE]
Using a GUI interface built with visual basic?
Why would they be complaining about a lack of "customer service" if the site is a private and free service? There's also an extremely-easy-to-use block feature.
[QUOTE=Funky Pickle;24558685]I thought that Grand Theft Auto was for people over 17. Little kids play it, though. So why not Facebook?[/QUOTE]
irresponsible parents
Normally, if something is rated R/M/18+, don't be suprised if u c kid who talk liek dis!!!1!
And, I bet the same thing will happen to twitter some time soon.
[QUOTE]an Australia-based public relations firm that represents the social network in that country pointed out Facebook's 14-year-old minimum age requirement.[/QUOTE]
So its only against Facebook's ToS to stalk minors and their families if they are 14 years of age or older. Got it.
Open Local Hosts file.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;24558775]Why would they be complaining about a lack of "customer service" if the site is a private and free service? There's also an extremely-easy-to-use block feature.[/QUOTE]
or simply use strict privacy settings.
The girl is 12 and you have to be 13 to sign up for facebook, therefore I don't think they should do anything, and if worse comes to worse, just make a new facebook, and change your number. And I don't understand how the stalker got her address and phone from her friends, isn't it suspicious when you're asking your friends what your address and phone # are?
jwk94, what the fuck. Just because she is a year, probably actually a few months under the age limit, doesn't mean facebook should be allowing someone to commit multiple online crimes. He's a sick fuck for posting porn on her profile for starters, porn isn't allowed on FB anyway. The fact that he's found out her address and things means he SHOULD be tracked down and stopped, and punished.
Jesus christ, if she wasn't so dumb as to put personal information on her facebook none of this would have happened.
Goddammit. It annoys me how many people freak after giving out their details on social networking sites, not expecting anything to happen.
I dont care if stalkers and pedophiles harass kids at facebook.
Those kids should stay at their homes than go to some kinda crappy "social" site.
they couldn't delete her account?
Are they fucking stupid?
Why do they want to delete her account when there's an option to permanently block any person from contacting you and seeing your profile?
[QUOTE=Dolton;24559023]Open Local Hosts file.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 facebook.com[/QUOTE]
What happens if you open remote hosts file
Solution: don't use Facebook.
[QUOTE=T2DM;24569539]Why do they want to delete her account when there's an option to permanently block any person from contacting you and seeing your profile?[/QUOTE]
The hacker gained her password I presume and facebook admins don't want to talk about it so there is no way to delete it. I think.
[quote=alienmartian23;24558590]did they [b]backtrace[/b] him?[/quote]
god fucking damnit
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