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I did a bit of research to find out what \"FaceBook\" is, and this is what I found out:

Facebook faces more legal trouble
Has to hand over sex offender info
By Ciara O'Brien, ElectricNews.net → More by this author
Published Friday 5th October 2007 09:25 GMT
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Social networking site Facebook has been ordered to turn over information on whether registered sex offenders have set up profiles on its site.

The Attorney General's office of New Jersey has supoenaed the popular social network, along with 11 other social networking sites, ordering them to release the information.

Facebook was sent a list of registered sex offenders in the state in September, and any matching profiles were removed, although the company will not divulge an exact number.

However, Anne Milgram, the attorney general in New Jersey, is seeking names and email addresses of those the site identified. The return date for the subpoena is 12 October.

Only a few weeks ago Facebook had fallen foul of New York state officials over its claims that younger users are more protected from sexual predators on Facebook than on other websites. State investigators who registered on the site posing as 12 to 14-year-olds claimed they had been solicited for sex.

While Facebook's claim that it was safer than other social network sites may have had some truth in the past, from the days when Facebook was a closed shop to all but college students, New York state investigators disagree with the statement now, and have warned the site to amend its claims or face a possible consumer fraud charge.

Officials from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office are due to meet with the site again this week.

Facebook is keeping its head down on the matter, although it has already released a previous statement expressing its concern over the claims that predators could use its site to groom their victims.

This latest bout of legal action may be seen as an indication of Facebook's growing popularity among internet users; the site currently has an estimated 39 million active members.

www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/05/facebook_legal_trouble/

Post edited by: DAEMONICUSMEDICUS, at: 2007/10/07 14:20

Who Are FaceBook?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Facebook website that allows people to communicate with their friends and exchange information.

Launched on February 4, 2004, Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of the Harvard Class of 2006 and former Ardsley High School student.

Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard College.

It was subsequently expanded to other Boston area schools (Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern University, Tufts University), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and all Ivy League schools within two months.

Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year.

Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies.

Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to users with any email address[2], if they are within a certain age range.

Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region.

As of October 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 42 million active members worldwide and expects to pass 60 million users by the end of the year (also from non-collegiate networks).[3] [4]

From September 2006 to September 2007[5] it increased its ranking from 60th to 7th most visited web site, and was the number one site for photos in the United States, ahead of public sites such as Flickr, with over 8.5 million photos uploaded daily.[6][7]

The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of the campus community that U.S. colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.<br><br>Post edited by: Scott_1984, at: 2007/11/02 01:52

Personally, I have mixed feelings about these kind of websites, such as \&quot;myspace\&quot;, \&quot;Bebo\&quot;, \&quot;FaceBook\&quot; etc.

I prefer Faceparty.Com, even though it also has had bad press &amp; even though the Police were investigating them.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceparty

www.Faceparty.Com

What are your feelings regarding \&quot;myspace\&quot;, \&quot;Bebo\&quot;, \&quot;FaceBook\&quot; etc. ?