I wonder how often extortion occurs online as people share self-generated, sexually explicit media. I read something similar last year about Craigslist casual encounters, albeit in that case the extortion was perpetrated for financial gain. My guess would be that it is much more common than is acknowledge. The scammer exploits an inherently emotional and irrational process to gain leverage over a truly unsuspecting victim.
For some reason, I have been thinking that Facebook membership was restricted to users over eighteen. I am obviously mistaken, but it occurs to me that this was their policy at some point. Does anyone know?
What that actually means is that you have to claim a birth date of over 13 years ago. There are certainly plenty of children younger than that on Facebook.
Yes, this is absolutely true. I should have worded my post more clearly to indicate that this is the policy not the reality.