I hope parents who are trying to keep their kids off MySpace and YouTube know about user-produced social sites that specialize in pornography, because they’re reportedly proliferating. One of the more disturbing things about them is the content that’s uploaded without the video subjects’ permission. This takes social-networking reputation concerns to an extreme. “There are over 250 ex-girlfriends currently featured among the tens of thousands of sex videos on [one such site],” Alternet reports. And how does this happen? “About 15% of women have knowingly made sex videos, according to a recent poll in Cosmopolitan magazine. If true, that’s how many are at risk of having an ex post X-rated files of them on a porn-sharing site.” The piece leads with the news that the video of one “ex-girlfriend” has been viewed by 138,629 people on one Germany-based porn video-sharing site (or “aggregator of amateur-generated porn”). The article goes in-depth on the tagging, rating, discussion groups, and other social elements of Web 2.0’s red-light district. It says “Every day, there are 266 new porn sites on the Net. Every second, 28,258 users are viewing porn,” the article says, adding that these sites that aggregate the homemade kind make it easier to find.
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