Facebooks Porn Cops – What This Means To Your Kids and Teens

"The Nipple Rule". "The Fully Exposed Butt Rule". "The Crack Rule".

Yes, those are Facebook's semi-formal policies about images that are
posted on their site. Yoursphere shared highlights of this story written by Newsweek in
our parent
newsletter. Since that inclusion, I've thought more about what this
policy means to my kids, and what it means to yours.

Newsweek writer Nick Summers states that these employees are key
weapons in Facebook's efforts to maintain its image as a place that's safe
for corporate advertisers, and a place for upscale
professionals. Facebook hopes to widen its appeal by requiring
everyone to sign up under their real name and to literally create a service for everyone.

I've known that Facebook wants to be utilized by everyone, but I had not
read, nor been told specifically that it's core focus – and the
driving force between its key employee weapons – would be focused on
"corporate advertisers" and "upscale professionals".

So where does that leave our kids?

If they have a profile on Facebook, it leaves them in a middle of a
community that allows "a young woman in panties only, covering her
breasts with her hands. "That's pretty close." Facebook employee Simon
Axten says. In this photo there's no visible areola, he
decides, so it stays.  The next photo is a male clad
only in a black thong and angel wings. Axten OKs the picture."  (I
wonder which corporate ad appears next to that photo…)

In case you were wondering, bare breasts with our without visible
areola, are not allowed in Yoursphere. Read more about our member conduct and terms of
use.

Police departments are learning that Facebook accounts can offer rich
information about criminal suspects. When Facebook was young, most
police requests were about underage drinking. "Now it's murders, missing
kids – basically all the worst things you can think of" according to
Max Kelly a former FBI computer forensics analyst who now works for
Facebook.

Teen drinking and runaways will be a part of our kid's lives and
subsequently their online communities. But murders and criminals now a part of
our kids online experience and community?

Parents, you need to know.

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