{"id":518,"date":"2008-03-07T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/buddhist-monks-warned-not-to-flirt-on-social-networks\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:43:59","slug":"buddhist-monks-warned-not-to-flirt-on-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/buddhist-monks-warned-not-to-flirt-on-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Monks Warned Not to Flirt on Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story that shows the widespread use of social networks around the globe, the Thailand Prime Minister&#8217;s Office has requested that the government ministry of Information, Communications and Technology monitor the use of the Hi5 social networking site by Buddhist monks.<\/p>\n<p>The request came after allegations that a monk used the internet to lure a young girl to his temple and raped her.<\/p>\n<p>Thai government officials are considering blocking access to the site to resolve future problems, but current law requires permission from a judge to block the site.<\/p>\n<p>A Thai minister has requested that Hi5 site operators monitor the Web site for use by monks and kick them off.<\/p>\n<p>The Hi5 social network claims to be the third largest social network in the world, with 70 million registered users around the globe, including over 800,000 in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The Hi5&#8217;s online safety section warns users to beware of personal postings that could embarrass them or be viewed by friends, family or employers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206902124\">Information Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story that shows the widespread use of social networks around the globe, the Thailand Prime Minister&#8217;s Office has requested that the government ministry of Information, Communications and Technology monitor the use of the Hi5 social networking site by Buddhist monks. The request came after allegations that a monk used the internet to lure [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/buddhist-monks-warned-not-to-flirt-on-social-networks\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Buddhist Monks Warned Not to Flirt on Social Networks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}