Is social media an open door for predators??!

**Neo** · 05-09-2018, 08:13 PM

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 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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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.

**Moana** · 05-10-2018, 10:09 AM

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)