Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Official Statement from OurSpace.com Concerning the South Street Riots

An official e-mail was sent out from OurSpace.com concerning the events on Saturday:

Increase the Peace on OurSpace.com

Here at OurSpace.com we are pleased to report that the majority of our users have embraced the site wholeheartedly, using it to build new relationships and promote themselves in a constructive manner. To these users, we'd like to express our deepest gratitude. Thank you for positively representing our community.
As with any great opportunity, there is bound to be a small population who chooses to use it in an inappropriate way. Recent news reports have described shocking and appalling teen rampages happening in Philadelphia which allegedly have been linked to OurSpace.com .

View the report.

The OurSpace.com team would like to express our deep disheartenment with the recent events. We built OurSpace to be a positive venue for our users to represent themselves and their communities and do not condone the use of our site to incite violence, destruction, or harassment. We have taken these recent events and any potential ties to our site seriously and are investigating carefully. While we work hard to keep you and your site safe, we ask that you help us by reporting any threatening remarks, any organization of group violence, or other blatant misuse of the site by flagging the offenders or writing us using the OurSpace.com contact form.

-- OurSpace.com Team

Investigations on my end have met dead ends and no possible leads. Since they control the servers and could catch any data sent during that time that a user may had deleted, and its a short amount of time and, really, a fraction of data that would be easy to pinpoint, I think its safe to say that if they have some involvement from users, we'll see an answer soon.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

03-22-10 Ourspace.com does not enforce its terms of use. Accounts have been setup falsely using other people's identity. When notified, ourspace does not remove the offending accounts.

Mark Skull said...

Do you have any proof?

Anonymous said...

I have proof because they are using my name and its causing me grief since I'm trying to find a job and everytime a potential employer googles my name they get some half naked kid staring back at them claiming to be me. Its annoying and I've told them if they didn't put an end to it I'm going to take legal action against them. If you happen to know who they are please let us know. Thanks. Second Anonymous in need of a job.

Mykia said...

I cant even get to the website anymore where do i go?

Mark Skull said...

Looks like they were shut down. GOOD.