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Sexual content causing a real danger to young kids on imvu say parents and study groups:
It does seem interesting that imvu clearly has no real security at all, anyone can join, no email validation needed, once on can upload pics and take them and become creator easily, if got cash. Imvu does nothing to put in safe guards to stop ufi and ap stuff coming through to GA area. Anyone can lie about their age also, giving them access then to the younger teen search options, a haven for sexual predators and pedophile putting at serious risks young teenagers on imvu: The following puts it rather well I feel:
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/imvu
parents & educators say
75% say language is an issue
75% say sexual content is an issue
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that the anime feel of this beautiful 3-D social networking site will encourage younger teens to log on, but it really isn't for kids. To access most of the content (nudity and raunchy catalog items), you need to pay $20. You need credits to buy stuff for your avatar, and teens can get creative by designing and selling catalog items or public rooms.
Sex: Many user home pages have sexual innuendo, racy graphics,...Many user home pages have sexual innuendo, racy graphics, and titillating discussion.
Language: Many home pages are full of swearing. ...Many home pages are full of swearing.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: Found on user home pages. ...Found on user home pages.
Privacy & safety: Kids can potentially give away personal information....
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Another thing to is I noticed a pedophile chatting on line with other kids and that is why I cancelled the whole thing. This company attracts pedophile, crooks, and software is very hard to remove in your hard drive.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/imvu.html
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Here is what one mother says about the safety of imvu from www.blogsafety.com
My 10 year old has an account on this site & has somehow set up her own email address. I can't even contact them to get it deleted! I am annoyed that these sites seem 2 manage 2 slip through parental security settings on the computer. It means we have to watch over their shoulders the whole time they r online and lock the computer away at bedtime! So much for the innocence of children these sites are deliberately luring in young teens who want 2 be young teens too early! there should b tighter security & better checks made by the sites themselves. They only delete accounts that r reported to them, they should have ways of preventing these accounts from even being set up other than trusting that a child wanting something other kids have got will tell the truth and not have it! Maybe if site owners began getting sued by the parents of the children they had allowed to view innapropriate content, they would have some better security.
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To highlight the possible dangers on imvu: A postman admitted grooming hundreds of children for sex over a five-year period, using social networking sites to prey on his victims. Michael Williams, 28, from Penryn, Cornwall, yesterday pleaded guilty to 27 child sex offences, including sexual activity with a child aged between 13 and 15, grooming and voyeurism, when he appeared at Truro Crown Court. Williams asked for 460 similar offences to be taken into consideration. From 2005 to 2009, Williams pursued hundreds of schoolchildren, on Facebook and Bebo, pretending to be a child. After befriending children he sent them questionnaires, asked where they lived, asking for mobile numbers, and if they had had sex. He would often ask them to use an internet video camera, or webcam. Detective Inspector Simon Snell said after the guilty plea: "He is a manipulative and predatory paedophile."
Williams has been remanded in custody for psychiatric reports and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed. A Facebook spokesman said the company was "deeply concerned" by the scale of the crimes committed by Williams.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/postman-admit-
s-internet-grooming-1986199.html
Given the nature of profiles on imvu and stuff going on in chat rooms as well as the shopping area at times with graphic sexual images in GA this has to be a real cause for concern to say the least.
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Re: IMVU and virtual sex
Oct 2, 2010 10:04 AM
I have 3 daughters on this website. I read each of their messages and check out all of their friends everyday. They tell me who they've added and the age they said they were. But of course you can't trust anyone on the internet. This website I would say isn't the safest,or the best. I love my kids very much and I would hope that some freak wouldn't find them and harm them in any way. I trust my oldest daughter on this website she is 14 years old and is very mature about what she says on this website and know what NOT to say to boys that she meets, or even girls. I talk to them and find out what has happend.. But it was very interesting when a 30 year old man called for my daughter Hollie,She was scared and left for about a year or so.. later on she decided to re-join. Since then, no problems at all and lets hope there won't be.
http://www.blogsafety.com
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