Re: Youth Protection Policy and E Memberships

[Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>]

In answer to Cheryl's point that a youth could join and not identify themselves as a youth and then I would not know it. Seems to me a bit silly that if I did not know it then the SYkos you speak of would not know it either. Nothing appears on these sites that is untoward or it will be deleted alomg with the person who put something like that up. It seems we are trying to invent problems that do not exist. It would be far more profitable to talk about what are some good ways in which you use the internet with our youth members.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul W Gossett" <pwgossett@juno.com>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:55:59 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Youth Protection Policy and E Memberships

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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