Central Ohio Mother Keeping Facebook Clean From Living Room
July 30, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
For many of us, social networking websites such as Facebook are great ways to stay in touch with friends and loved ones.
But as with just about everything involving the internet, dangers can lurk even in the most innocent of places. These dangers can include child porn.
Now one central Ohio woman is taking upon herself to clean these sites and keep them safe for our kids.
Julie Ross logs into Facebook, but she isn’t trying to catch up on her friends’ statuses. From inside her Washington Court House living room, she’s doing her part to keep Facebook clean.
“We’re going after Facebook pedophiles, child porn basically,” says Ross.
Six months ago, she created a private Facebook group to track down child porn on Facebook.
It’s something she says has turned out to be an eye-opening and sickening experience.
“We have seen some things, you’d cry yourself to sleep seeing some of the things that we’ve seen,” says Ross.
She says one page usually leads to another, and then another and so on.
When she or the twelve other people in her Facebook group find something inappropriate, they report it immediately to the CyberTipline.
It appears as if Ross’ efforts are paying off. In just half a year, she says her group has helped close down around 100 Facebook pages.
“For each one of the pages that we’re bringing down, we know there is however many kids, it could be hundreds of kids they’ve already gotten to,” says Ross.
Two kids who won’t become victims are Julie’s own. She doesn’t allow them on Facebook.
“Not that I don’t trust them but you never know what somebody could talk your kids into saying or doing,” she says.
To keep others’ kids safe, she says she won’t give up on her mission to clean Facebook.
“We’ll probably never get them (pages) all but we are going to keep fighting it,” she says.
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