{"id":9540,"date":"2019-03-28T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:08:23","slug":"sexually-explicit-facebook-friend-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"Sexually explicit Facebook friend requests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as Facebook is battling white supremacism and fighting accusations of racial profiling, there is more nonsense going on.<\/p>\n

In the past few days, I received several Facebook requests from accounts purportedly owned by young women, whose profiles contain sexually explicit, rather pornographic images and videos.<\/p>\n

Here is one of the mildest ones (the majority of the images in this and other accounts from which I received friend requests were far, far more explicit in nature, including images depicting intercourse):<\/p>\n

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I do not wish to be a prude here; I am, after all, a middle aged male in relatively good health, and certainly not immune to, ahem, shall we say, visually stimulating images (though I admit I was never a fan of hard-core pornography. Not my cup of tea.)<\/p>\n

But these Facebook accounts are obviously not accounts owned by bona fide<\/em> young women trying to seduce older, happily married males like myself. They are probably overweight middle-aged male scam artists doing their shady business from their parents’ basements. Or worse yet, organized crime operating out of shady boiler rooms somewhere in Eastern Europe or Asia.<\/p>\n

Thanks but no thanks. I have presently no desire to break my marital vow, but even if I did, there are better, safer ways.<\/p>\n

As for these friend requests, I just block them and report the accounts to Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even as Facebook is battling white supremacism and fighting accusations of racial profiling, there is more nonsense going on. In the past few days, I received several Facebook requests from accounts purportedly owned by young women, whose profiles contain sexually explicit, rather pornographic images and videos. Here is one of the mildest ones (the majority […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-personal","category-51-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}