Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2010, as a news item. Tuenti, then a popular Spanish social network among teenagers, later shut down its social network, so the Plan Contigo profile and its contact address are very likely no longer active.
Spain’s National Police (Policía Nacional) has opened a user account on the social network Tuenti, in response to some parents’ concern about their children’s “friends”. Plan Contigo (“Plan With You”) is the name of a new friend you should have on Tuenti, because they’ll be at your disposal if you suspect that someone your child is talking to isn’t who they claim to be.
This user, or page, also aims to inform users (above all minors) about the identity fraud that can happen on social networks, as well as about drug use and dealing and other dangers hidden behind new technologies, which today are far too accessible to our children.
It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a 50-year-old man has passed himself off as a 13-year-old girl for purposes that have nothing to do with friendship.
We share information, photos of our home, places and holiday dates with our friends on social networks, but… who is hiding behind those friends who aren’t really our friends? How many profiles on the social network could be gathering information for later contact?
You can clear up all these questions, and ask whenever you’re in doubt, with your new friend on Tuenti, Plan Contigo.
You can receive all kinds of information and send any questions you think necessary about this new user at the following email address: [email protected].
Further reading
- Facebook to be investigated for violating users’ privacy
- Truths and lies about Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Featured image: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
