Re: Youth Protection Policy and E Memberships

[Paul W Gossett <pwgossett@juno.com>]

Cheryl and All,

I too have no clue about Facebook since I do not use  nor do I know
anything about it, along with twitter and all of the other Internet chat
sites.


Paul








On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:33:56 -0700 cheryl deaton
<region15kids@hotmail.com> writes:
> Bob,
> I am clueless as to how Facebook works, but how would you know any 
> 'friend'
> was a youth member?  They are not identified in any way as a youth 
> member,
> just an AIS member, so unless they identified themselves to you as a 
> youth,
> you would not have access to that information.  I agree that if the 
> youth has
> a Facebook page and joins groups it is not the responsibility of 
> AIS, but
> there is the possibility that it COULD happen and the sickos are out
> there...just check the website of Megan's Law!
> Cheryl
> 
> > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:10:15 -0400
> > From: robertpries@embarqmail.com
> > To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> > Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Youth Protection Policy and E 
> Memberships
> >
> > As keeper of the AIS facebook page, I am not aware of any youth 
> that are
> friends. I do not seek out youth to join the page and if they did, 
> presumably
> they would already have their own facebook page. The fact that they 
> have
> connected to the AIS page should not be the responsibility of the 
> AIS. Members
> of AIS could be terrible felons but I we do not have a 
> responsibility to judge
> someone who wants to join. It is not AIS publishing data about 
> someone, but
> someone putting data about thenselves out, and connecting it to our 
> sites. The
> club sites, including AIS proper and the many affiliate sites are 
> putting out
> information about club activities and iris, not information about 
> individual
> youths. To think there is a problem here seems like a really 
> distorted idea of
> they way the world works. I do agree that youth should not be 
> putting some
> things on their facebook pages but that is their responsibility and 
> their
> parents not ours.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
> > To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:42:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Youth Protection Policy and E 
> Memberships
> >
> > Some initial thoughts on the Facebook issue:
> >
> > If the purpose of the Club Facebook page is to communicate with 
> club
> > members (only) then having a youth club member listed as a 
> "Friend"
> > would be restricted to club members who already know that they are
> > youth. The youth are of course responsible for their own profiles.
> >
> > If the purpose of the Club Facebook account is also to communicate
> > with, or be accessible by, non-club members (e.g., the general
> > public) then I would say it would be inappropriate to list youth 
> as
> > "Friends"
> >
> > Be that as it may, there is always a risk associated with 
> identifying
> > youth, and the most conservative position would be to not list any
> > youth as friends.
> >
> > I am sure that Bob Plank will be able to tell us what we need to 
> do
> > to adequately protect ourselves.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:11 AM, cheryl deaton wrote:
> >
> > > Also, if an AIS Youth Member has a Facebook page, is this in
> > > violation of the AIS Youth Protection Policy if their club also 
> has
> > > a Facebook
> > > account and the Youth members are listed as 'friends'?
> > >
> > > I think we need to address the Youth Protection Policy 
> guidelines
> > > in light of
> > > the fact that many youth members are on the Internet for a 
> variety
> > > of reasons
> > > and when the policy was implememted our reasoning was valid, but
> > > may not be at
> > > this time. I value your imput.
> > > Cheryl Deaton, AIS Youth Chair
> > >
> > > 
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