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Sexual content causing a real danger to young kids on imvu say parents and study groups:
DA Warns of Dangerous New Chat Room IMVU.com
(by RaycerX)
First there was MySpace.com, then Runescape, now prosecutors believe the chat room alternatives have taken an alarming turn for the worse. They have literally entered a new dimension. IMUV.com is a new, 3-D environment using animated Avatars. Avatars have generally been an Internet user�s representation of himself or herself in the form of a three-dimensional model sometimes used in computer games. IMVU participants design an Avatar which becomes a fully 3D character. They create their own persona and choreograph activities with others they meet in this chat room.
In the last two days District Attorney Investigator Mike Harris has received numerous calls from concerned parents about IMVU.com. In the interactive IMVU environment participants create a profile as in other chat rooms, but they also create how they look, act and interact with others. A quick look at the list of profiles in Colorado alone shows kids aged 11 through their teens, and adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.
Participants in IMVU have hundreds of options for their physical attributes including skin color, hair color and style, eyes, brows, hands, etc. They then have hundreds of options for clothing: tops, bottoms, sleepwear, shoes, gloves and accessories. The newly created persona then enters one ofa choice of several chat locations, waits to be approached and the visits begin. There are many choices of demeanor and actions such as flirty, bashful angry, and several different types of hugs and kisses. The characters look like animated kids, boys and girls. To one concerned parent, it appeared that her child was simply playing an interactive game on the computer with dolls.
District Attorney Scott Storey warns, The use of Avatar animation on this site will make it even more appealing to younger users. It appears to kids to be a perfect world where they can create themselves to look like they want to look and dress like they want to dress. They can direct and star in their own video. In reality it is just one more resource for predators to hide behind a facade as they lure our unsuspecting children.
http://izzyneis.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/imvu-avatars-ar-
e-trending-dangerous-ground/
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It does seem interesting that imvu clearly has no real security at all, anyone can join, no email validation needed, once on can upload pics and take them and become creator easily, if got cash. Imvu does nothing to put in safe guards to stop ufi and ap stuff coming through to GA area. Anyone can lie about their age also, giving them access then to the younger teen search options, a haven for sexual predators and pedophile putting at serious risks young teenagers on imvu: The following puts it rather well I feel:
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/website-reviews/imvu
parents & educators say
75% say language is an issue
75% say sexual content is an issue
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that the anime feel of this beautiful 3-D social networking site will encourage younger teens to log on, but it really isn't for kids. To access most of the content (nudity and raunchy catalog items), you need to pay $20. You need credits to buy stuff for your avatar, and teens can get creative by designing and selling catalog items or public rooms.
Sex: Many user home pages have sexual innuendo, racy graphics,...Many user home pages have sexual innuendo, racy graphics, and titillating discussion.
Language: Many home pages are full of swearing. ...Many home pages are full of swearing.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking: Found on user home pages. ...Found on user home pages.
Privacy & safety: Kids can potentially give away personal information....
On the same link above, here is what another says of their experience on imvu.
This is not SAFE!
Well i have played and they do use cyber sex and my parents let me continue on the website but then it was an issue but i knew to get off of it when a teenager asked me where i live, whats your address,don't worry i wont hurt u,i will take care of u and i will make u feel good so i ran to my mom and i was to be asked to never be on there again the guy got in trouble and found out he was 30.so it can happen to teens to so thank u and thank u for listening!
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Another thing to is I noticed a pedophile chatting on line with other kids and that is why I cancelled the whole thing. This company attracts pedophile, crooks, and software is very hard to remove in your hard drive.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/imvu.html
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Here is what one mother says about the safety of imvu from www.blogsafety.com
My 10 year old has an account on this site & has somehow set up her own email address. I can't even contact them to get it deleted! I am annoyed that these sites seem 2 manage 2 slip through parental security settings on the computer. It means we have to watch over their shoulders the whole time they r online and lock the computer away at bedtime! So much for the innocence of children these sites are deliberately luring in young teens who want 2 be young teens too early! there should b tighter security & better checks made by the sites themselves. They only delete accounts that r reported to them, they should have ways of preventing these accounts from even being set up other than trusting that a child wanting something other kids have got will tell the truth and not have it! Maybe if site owners began getting sued by the parents of the children they had allowed to view innapropriate content, they would have some better security.
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To highlight the possible dangers on imvu: A postman admitted grooming hundreds of children for sex over a five-year period, using social networking sites to prey on his victims. Michael Williams, 28, from Penryn, Cornwall, yesterday pleaded guilty to 27 child sex offences, including sexual activity with a child aged between 13 and 15, grooming and voyeurism, when he appeared at Truro Crown Court. Williams asked for 460 similar offences to be taken into consideration. From 2005 to 2009, Williams pursued hundreds of schoolchildren, on Facebook and Bebo, pretending to be a child. After befriending children he sent them questionnaires, asked where they lived, asking for mobile numbers, and if they had had sex. He would often ask them to use an internet video camera, or webcam. Detective Inspector Simon Snell said after the guilty plea: "He is a manipulative and predatory paedophile."
Williams has been remanded in custody for psychiatric reports and will be sentenced on a date to be fixed. A Facebook spokesman said the company was "deeply concerned" by the scale of the crimes committed by Williams.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/postman-admit-
s-internet-grooming-1986199.html
Given the nature of profiles on imvu and stuff going on in chat rooms as well as the shopping area at times with graphic sexual images in GA this has to be a real cause for concern to say the least.
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Re: IMVU and virtual sex
Oct 2, 2010 10:04 AM
I have 3 daughters on this website. I read each of their messages and check out all of their friends everyday. They tell me who they've added and the age they said they were. But of course you can't trust anyone on the internet. This website I would say isn't the safest,or the best. I love my kids very much and I would hope that some freak wouldn't find them and harm them in any way. I trust my oldest daughter on this website she is 14 years old and is very mature about what she says on this website and know what NOT to say to boys that she meets, or even girls. I talk to them and find out what has happend.. But it was very interesting when a 30 year old man called for my daughter Hollie,She was scared and left for about a year or so.. later on she decided to re-join. Since then, no problems at all and lets hope there won't be.
http://www.blogsafety.com

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