Social networking has taken over porn surfing for most time spent on the internet. Link-
Porn passed over as Web users become social: author | Technology | Reuters
Are people tired of looking for p0rn and busy looking for people to mate with?
geez that was a weird article…thanks for sharing woofie! Really makes you think…hmm..
Or too busy looking popular online than doing either? For some people it is their entire social life..sad.
yeah, I knew I personally was spending more time online searching personal ads, and social sites, but I didn’t think I was the bulk of the porn surfers. I can’t remember the last time I went directly to a p0rn site. But some have come up on their own…
I know, it’s sad isn’t it… the local high school had 5 kids in trouble for posting provocative pictures online.
Interesting! Who the F found those pictures for the kids to be in trouble over? Some pervert teacher trolling for teens on the net?
When schools start invading the kids social lives outside of school and try to control what they do, I believe they’ve gone to far and that’s a step closer to a Nazi government than I’m comfortable with.
Am I saying that 14 year old kids should be stripping or showing their goodies on the net? Absolutely not! But, I don’t think that’s for their schools to decide! Schools are to educate, not to dictate ethics, morals or the students social lives outside of school. That’s the parents job!
I think it was facebook and myspace who came to the school because the pictures were posted from their computers. Further investigations found more posters, but they were not the original ones who got into trouble.
I don’t really know for sure but they did have some class contest going on, guess who’s bra, boobs, thong/butt or something like that.
Yes, I agree kids under 17 should not be allowed to post partially clothed pictures online, especially from school or library computers. but who is there to stop them other than their peers?
That gets even more interesting, because to post pictures on the net from a school computer means that they either had to connect a camera to the computer, insert a storage disk into a card reader, have webcams setup on the computers, or scan a picture in. And, the permissions on those computers would probably have to have been set to allow the kids access to even do so.
Was nobody responsible for watching these kids? And if not, the school should be shut down or the teachers that were responsible for the children should be charged with neglect. If parents are held accountable for their children’s actions outside of school, then the school or the teachers need to be accountable for their behavior while they’re under their charge.
or it could have been done from a PDA or personal laptop over the wireless network.
still they had to get access to the network, then to the Internet.
They did not say on the news, but I know the school has several 30 computer computer labs, it is a little hard to watch 30 computers all at the same time. and all the kids have thumb drives to carry their files on. (I know because I had to help a couple of the kids with their laptops, nothing is as junked up as a teenage girl’s computer, mostly spyware, malware and assorted junk)
Why would the school have an open wireless network in the first place. Second, unused USB ports, card readers, etc. should be disabled.
A kid with a thumbdrive carrying antivirus could wipe out the computer, and on a wireless network could wipe out all the computers!
And I’ll reiterate: By law parents are required to send their children to school and entrust them to be watched for and taken care of by the school system. I don’t care if they have 3,000 computers, the schools are responsible for the children and need to be held accountable for what the kids are doing on their watch.
It’s a pretty sad state when a parent can be held accountable for their kids actions, but those entrusted to watch over them for the better part of their waking lives aren’t.
Gee, I’m not even sure where to start on this one. 
Mark, I completely agree that schools need to educate, and not dictate ethics, values, morals, etc..
I also agree that school’s need to be responsible for the children in their custody, but unless you run the school like a prison, you can’t keep watch on every child at every moment.
And honestly, maybe it is because I’m still young, but once you get to high school, that’s what it’s about. 
No guy in their right mind is going to discourage these girls, and every generation of kids includes their own risks for fun. In the 1700s maybe just showing a leg was risky enough for fun. In my experience it is pretty much the same as others, alcohol, drugs, sex and violence. Just varying degrees of each..I’m not much of a drinker or fighter. 
Basically…oh no, a kid posted provocative pictures, the parents should do something about it, not the school, and the only thing the school should be concerned about is not letting it happen on campus, or be uploaded on campus. But kids will always take risks, it’s a part of growing up. I often contemplate how boring my kid’s lives will be if I let them do anything anytime. A large part of the fun is ‘getting away with it’.
As far as absolute numbers go, I think more guys are geting laid, but I can’t help but wonder if the rise of technology (and the inevitable transfer of culture, and thus sexual culture) is responsible for the rise in PUAs and the overarching structure of that field. How ironic it is then, that as people become more provocative online, they actually start having less natural sex. You’d expect the opposite, but then again this whole situation is twisted to begin with.
Girls post provocative pictures to fulfill their egos and insecurities. Guys will inevitably respond with enthusiasm and that validates her beliefs on the state of her beauty. Guys that do message said girl is thinking..hey she’s showing skin, maybe she’s looking for some good fun? Girls get the message and complain, what’s with all these creepy guys messaging me? (As in, Dammit, I just wanted compliments, not stalkers!) That isn’t the source of the problem either, but it’s a step in the right direction, IMO.
The internet is turning from anonymity of it’s users to attaching identities to screen names and emails. If you trace the corporate interests of Facebook it goes all the way back to DARPA and the CIA.
Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?
DARPA some years ago wanted a big centralized national database. People were naturally up in arms about it. Facebook was a great solution to this issue. Give people the choice to be on there. Let them hand over as much information as they’re willing to put online for the convenience of social networking. At the very least it attaches a name to an email address.
This isn’t paranoia. This is reality.
Your rights and freedoms only exist on paper. They can be violated at any time, for any reason. The freedom you possess now is only an illusion. So as long as you stay complacent and submissive shall the illusion continue to exist.
being a network admin, I can understand the problems,
blocking kids actions is considered freedom of speech, and blocking websites is considered censorship.
yet places that have active filters in place tend to get circumvented or shutoff because they block legitimate stuff.
I am a stickler for security, disabling executable programs from removable media is one of my favorite things to do to standard users.
it prevents a lot of issues, the next is having a good antivirus program, update system and software firewalls in place , that scan and filter applications as they are being downloaded. Connections to viruses and media files larger than 2.5MB are immediately dropped, or reset every few seconds. more technical users are allowed to install or run execuatlibles. The more things you have in place the faster and harder people work to bypass them. Students in highschool now are 100 times better at using computers than I was at that age, and I was one of the best in my classes. But then that was way back before Al Gore invented the internet.
Then you have issues like in Cali- where the guy driving the train was texting. that is just not right!.
kids sit in class with their cell phones texting, personally I am all for instiutions being allowed to have Cell blockers installed, to prevent Cell phone use during certain time periods or in particular locations.
then you get the “what if it’s an emergency” crowd, if it is an emergency call the School, you will have to anyway to get the kid relased from school, or if the kid is having an emergency they should be leaving the area anyway.