Simon Eroro
PORT MORESBY: Innocent female Facebook and Zorpia.com users in Papua New Guinea must now be aware that photos pasted with their profiles are being pilfered by
pornographic sites and recreated into explicit sexual graphics, reports the Post-Courier newspaper.
Many have been used, resulting in the creation of a Papua New Guinean pornographic site which is being accessed from anywhere in the world.
The site contains mainly young women from around the country, but in various sexual poses or acts.
These were created through clever art and graphical touches from the many plagiarised pictures plucked from the unsuspecting Facebook users.
Investigations carried out by the Post-Courier after a female student in a tertiary institution was posted a graphical image of herself has now revealed more innocent female members of these websites have been
targeted.
The Deputy Director of the National Censorship Board, Jim Abani, said yesterday that although the board was not aware of these cases, it thanked the newspaper for informing the country - especially the young women - about the exploitation by pornographic sites.
Abani said the paper has helped so much in the past on investigations into PNG local pornographic sites.
He said technology had allowed Papua New Guineans to try out new things, not knowing that they would become vulnerable to abuse.
“This country has developed a completely different culture where many without confirming anything for that matter; assume the false as true and urged young women and girls and the married ones to protect their future by making better decisions,” Abani said.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.
Users may join common interest user groups, organised by workplace, school, or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other.
Facebook allows anyone who declares that they are at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. - Post-Courier/Pacific Media Watch
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