Is Facebook dangerous?

[Lace Neil Singer]

The main reason why I use an alias on Facebook is cuz I don't want bitches from school searching me up and trying to friend me, or stuff like that. I can talk to my close friends and family on Facebook on my private profile, and I don't need to worry about my former bullies trying to muscle in.

[Ree]

It's been well known that meeting strangers is a bad idea. Especially over the internet. This kind of stuff has been happening before facebook was invented.

Exactly!!

Long before Facebook, the website "Perverted Justice" existed, where the members used chatrooms to catch the slimeball predators and pedophiles.

Before the internet, there were personal ads in newspapers.

When will personal responsibility for actions actually become a consideration, and rather than putting the blame on the tools, put it on the person using those tools?

[muses_nightmare]

One of my instructors is kind of paranoid when it comes to Facebook, he regularly goes on huge rants about how horrible it is. Though honestly it seems like it's because he's a bit socially inept and doesn't know how to use it.

[Evil Red Briggs]

Heh, being socially inept myself, I can see the virtues of facebook on the flip side. I am horrible at remembering birthdays and I hate talking on the phone. I prefer talking to people through the internet and while I hate talking on the phone, video skype is a freakin godsend for keeping in contact with people.

But it's true that people need to stop blaming the tools and look to themselves for accountablilty. But, if that was the common sense thing to do, we wouldn't have parents blaming television and video games and other mediums for why their kid's are so f'd up.