You’d think, given Facebook’s popularity, that they would have answered the inquiries from authorities, or at least responded to the complaints before it got to this point.

The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.

“We expect an immediate correction eliminating the dangers exposed by our investigation,” said the spokesman, Jeffrey Lerner.

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Lerner said Facebook’s contention of being safer than most sites was accurate when it started out as a closed site 3 1/2 years ago. But it’s now much larger, and the safeguards and apparently the response times for complaints aren’t what they once were, he said.

Then again, once you get as big as Facebook, even a little bad publicity seems to be a good thing, right? But how do you go about “securing” Facebook for young people? Seriously? I have yet to see a system where the young people didn’t “break out” or the pervs didn’t find a way in…

If they’re not careful some of the victims might start talking to a few Raleigh personal injury attorneys about the whole matter, then it could get even nastier for Facebook.

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