Social Networking

Popular websites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, Blogspot, and Xanga make it easy to build a web of friends and acquaintances, and share with them your photos, whereabouts, contact information, and interests. But be thoughtful about what you post; don’t put your safety or your future at risk. Never forget: the words and images you post on the Internet may be available for years, and your profile may be viewed by future employers and school admissions officials, as well as identity thieves, spammers, and stalkers.

TEXAS COURT DISMISSES MYSPACE SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE

MySpace has won what may be the first of many lawsuits over its child-safety practices, with a Texas court dismissing charges against the social networking Web site in the case of a 13-year-old girl allegedly molested by a man she met there. Criminal charges against the 19-year-old accused assailant are still pending.

 

 "BULLIED TO DEATH"

Natasha MacBryde, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who committed suicide after a remorseless campaign of internet bullying.

But that was not all. The malice that had led to her death continued on the internet, causing more anguish to her distraught family.

A Facebook website set up in Natasha’s memory was invaded by a deluge of offensive comments, ranging from sick jokes about the manner of her death to spiteful remarks about her character. This form of cyber bullying is known as ‘trolling’. Sadly, Natasha MacBryde's case is not unique.

I think that there should be certain age required for a person to make an account for any of these social networking sites. The people that own these accounts should be mature enough to handle them. Of coarse they can be very useful but also very dangerous at the same time

http://www.schoolbullyingcouncil.com/tag/suicide-stories-due-to-social-networking-sites/

www.cmswire.com/news/topic/social+networking

Prostitution

        Prostitution is commonly known as the one of the oldest "professions" known to man. The background and history of prostitution is long with shifting attitudes towards the profession throughout all recorded history. Political and social attitudes towards sexuality, women, and infectious disease shaped societies responses to prostitution. Laws on prostitution are almost as old as the profession itself.  Even in young civilizations, like the United States, social and political attitudes towards prostitution have gone through dramatic changes. In the United States, prostitution has always been illegal but it has gone through periods of tolerance and intolerance over the last 230 some odd years of American independence.

        The White Slave Traffic Act of June 25, 1910, applies to any case in which a woman is transported in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution or concubinage; pecuniary. This act is highly active throughout the CAMINETTI VS. UNITED STATES court case 

 CHILD PROSTITUTION IN CAMBODIA FLOURISHES

An appalling number of girls are being sold into prostitution in Cambodia. These girls are not adults, but children. Some are as young as an appalling five or six years old. One child, hoping to earn money for her family, received a job at a café. After being given the job, it did not take long for the girl to find out that she was going to be a prostitute. Not only that, the place she was working was not a café at all, it was a brothel, or a house of prostitution. Understandably, she did not want to be a prostitute, but if she had refused, she would have been beaten by her employer. Families who are poor and struggling to survive engage their children in prostitution because, sadly enough, it pays off. Surprisingly, tourists, American and otherwise, are to blame for the success of prostitution in Cambodia!

         I think that is a very sad thing that people are being forced into this form of employment, especially children. This profession should not be as successful as it has become, not only in Cambodia but world wide. Once these women have joined this path, whether it was forced upon them or a last resort for survival, it seems that there is no way out. For the safety of themselves and the people that they interact with, prostitution SHOULD NOT be legal! ):

 

http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2010/10/prostitution-ukraines-unstoppable.html

http://soc202events.blogspot.com/2007/09/child-prostitution-in-cambodia.html