In his article on Wired, Venkatish found that "sex workers were turning to Facebook: 83 percent have a Facebook page, and I estimate that by the end of 2011, Facebook will be the leading on-line recruitment space."
Friending on Facebook is step one for prostitutes who wish to establish a base of customers via the popular social networking site. Men looking for a woman who provides adult services can connect with a provider who is on Facebook via mobile phone or their computer.
Facebook may be easier and less risky than flagging down a prostitute on a street corner, but quite possibly with the same dangerous consequences. Technology is so advanced now that just about everything that we say and do online is tracked, so there's no escaping the fact that connecting through Facebook to find a pay-for-sex provider may come back to haunt you.
Venkatsh states in his article, How Tech Tools Transformed New York's Sex Trade that Facebook allows a prostitute to "control their image, set their prices and sidestep some of the pimps, madam.”
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Source: How Tech Tools Transformed New York's Sex Trade, Sudhir Venkatesh
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Professor Venkatish's conclusions are faulty and here's why...the percentage of ALL of the population on Facebook is about 83% as well. I've worked in the adult entertainment industry for 35 years and more recently as a social media consultant to escorts, dancers, and actresses and the majority of them went over to the Village Voice Media's "Backpage" online classified who are now tightening up their posting rules on adult ads as well shifting the trade to smaller, regional online forums like Red Book, Lovings, The Erotic Review and Eros Guide. Facebook's Terms of Service and posting content has always been too restrictive for most in the industry and their recent upgrade made it even more restrictive. My 2,000+ member "Erotomania" was going strong for over 2 years and last week was removed without warning by Facebook....excuse me, they sent 5 warnings all at once and canned the page. It's ok, I have over 3o other pages and groups on FB and there are plenty of other platforms who do accept adult content but the professor here is just tossing out a number based on skeptical emperical data at best and thus his conclusion is equally tainted. He fails to isolate and identify a control group. Sorry Prof....I grade you with an "D-"
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