Predators Invade Social Media Apps!

Sexual predators exist online. Even this asshole is considered creepy.

The company which owns Match.com, POF, OKCupid, Chemistry.com, Tinder, Twoo and HowAboutWe is under fire.

They are not protecting folks from racists, sexual predators, honey traps and scammers.

It seems like you can find love in the wrong places. Mind you that I'm a "surprise dad" because of social media. However, I am also a person of rational thought when it comes to social media.

I've learned to stay out of the fast lane of getting upset over friends dropping me, ex-girlfriends, political views and random memes. I am a visual person and I rather see you face-to-face than online.

Stay low and never go too far.

Buzzfeed did some investigative reporting on the dangers of social media. They found that the social dating apps are allowing convicted sexual predators online to lure victim into danger. Yes, there a sexual offenders who can be reformed. However, the danger is too great to allow them to exist online.

I mean reforming people is a difficult task. Sex is a drug. But to be safe than sorry, these companies should keep the nuts out of the tree.

For nearly a decade, its flagship website, Match, has issued statements and signed agreements promising to protect users from sexual predators. The site has a policy of screening customers against government sex offender registries. But over this same period, as Match evolved into the publicly traded Match Group and bought its competitors, the company hasn’t extended this practice across its platforms — including Plenty of Fish, its second most popular dating app. The lack of a uniform policy allows convicted and accused perpetrators to access Match Group apps and leaves users vulnerable to sexual assault, a 16-month investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations found.

Match first agreed to screen for registered sex offenders in 2011 after Carole Markin made it her mission to improve its safety practices. The site had connected her with a six-time convicted rapist who, she told police, had raped her on their second date. Markin sued the company to push for regular registry checks. The Harvard-educated entertainment executive held a high-profile press conference to unveil her lawsuit. Within months, Match's lawyers told the judge that "a screening process has been initiated," records show. After the settlement, the company's attorneys declared the site was "checking subscribers against state and national sex offender registries"

IAC/Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match — but not on Tinder, OkCupid, or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, "There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products."

Plenty of Fish "does not conduct criminal background or identity verification checks on its users or otherwise inquire into the background of its users," the dating app states in its terms of use. It puts responsibility for policing its users on users themselves. Customers who sign its service agreement promise they haven’t committed "a felony or indictable offense (or crime of similar severity), a sex crime, or any crime involving violence,” and aren’t “required to register as a sex offender with any state, federal or local sex offender registry." Plenty of Fish doesn’t attempt to verify whether its users tell the truth, according to the company.

Like social dating apps, Facebook is experimenting in this game. Facebook is literally driving people crazy. The social media has driven folks to commit acts of violence. Facebook is looking the other way when it comes to politics. The company is literally allowing influence peddlers into the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Facebook is still allow misinformation on their platform. Donald J. Trump ranted to Mark Zuckerberg about how conservatives being marginalized. In the wake of Tomi Lahren, Candace Owens, Diamond & Silk and Terrence K. Williams being placed on Facebook's warning list, Trump has demanded Facebook to stop silencing conservatives.

Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Laura Loomer, Paul Nehlen, Louis Farrakhan and Joseph Paul Watson are banned from Facebook.