Faceparty: the plot thickens
By Sarah Dobbs in Editorial
Posted in Web 2.0, Utterly strange, Social Networks, Security on
Never one to drop a story before I’ve completely chewed the life out of it, I went to check on the Faceparty situation, and found a message from the administrator in my account. After some blather about a new webcam service, it says this:
“There have been rumours and press stories saying we are deleting everyone over 36. This is not true (as you should notice by browsing and seeing people over 36). Nobody has been deleted because of their age, but we have deleted 7 million accounts for hundreds of different reasons… most importantly to get all the spammers, fakers etc out. Our plan has been working really well, and we’ll soon be opening our doors again to those who got deleted by unavoidable accident.
If any of your friends were deleted by accident, you can apply to have them re-instated in the Gossip section, under the thread “Friend Deleted?”.
All for now,
*hugs*
Admin x”
While it’s true that there do still appear to be lots and lots of members over 36 on the site, that’s really not what Faceparty announced about its policies. Is this some rapid backtracking, then?
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Loading ...Comment by - June 2, 2008 on 4:55 pm
check out http://www.facepartyexposed.com for a bigger insight.
Comment by - June 4, 2008 on 11:14 am
Yeah right, as I explain here (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2512.html) the Faceparty owners admit that age was indeed a reason for kicking people off.
How else can they explain, in their own words, posted as a statement on the site:
“Having discussed the use of our website with the home office and the police, and further some pretty serious crimes caused by older users, we were left with no option but to terminate a huge amount of accounts, and without notice, immediately. We understand that only a minority of older users are sex offenders, but you must understand that we cannot tell which - we can only delete all to make the site safe and we apologise for that. However, we are following the law and you cannot think we are wrong for doing that.”
Or even:
“Faceparty was set up as a youth entertainment portal. Anarchy Towers will not be purchasing profiles of people who use the website for the wrong reasons.” Reasons that include, so it says, “using it as a dating site for the over 50s.”
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