Free App Checks Your Friends List For Sex Offenders
Friend Verifier
There’s a free Facebook app called ‘Friend Verifier’ which
will scan through all of your friends on Facebook and lets you know if any of
them are registered sex offenders.
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The app searches through the sex offenders registry based on
name, location and date of birth. Once it’s completed a full scan of your
Facebook it will let you know the results and if you are friends with any
registered sex offenders.
There are three different kinds of matches, a yellow match
means that just the name matches the registry. An orange match means that both
the name and location match. Lastly, a red means that name, location and date of
birth all match. Which might mean that you’ll be wanting to defriend all your
red matches. But that’s for you to decide.
Friend Verifier could prove very useful for keeping people
protected online. It would be nice to know if a person who won’t stop messaging
you is a registered offender giving you more than enough drive to just delete
them off the bat. Furthermore, it could also be utilised by parents in
order to make sure that their children are staying safe on social media. Raising
children in the digital age is going to be a nightmare, I think I could use
some help come the time.
Founder and CEO Joe Penora created the app in 2012 after
hearing stories about a woman getting attacked.
‘Four years ago I saw a woman had been sexually assaulted by
a man she met on Match.com, So I thought this crazy idea I had years ago, maybe
there's something to it.’
Though it was created 3 years ago, it’s only just now
started to gain real traction and popularity.
‘I would say 99 percent of the responses have been fantastic,
People most of the time say, when they first hear about Friend Verifier, they
think wow this is weird, why haven't I heard this before?’Penora said.
Friend Verifier has led to 12 million people being scanned
to date and Penora is keen to branch out to the other social networks. He’s
mentioned working on an app for Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Friend Verifier is a great way to keep your friends list
offender free. Now if they could just make one that would show me which of my
friends are voting UKIP and they’ll get a download from me.
If you're interested in trying the app out, find out more here.
Tom Welby
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If you're interested in trying the app out, find out more here.
Tom Welby
Tom has a degree in Creative and Professional Writing and now he currently manages, edits and writes for this blog. His other interests include Arnold Schwarzenegger films and his dog. Follow him @TomAtSMF
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