MeetMe Reaffirms its Commitment to Industry Leading User Safety
24 August 2016 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
MeetMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a public market leader for social
discovery, today reaffirmed its commitment to industry leading user
safety for its more than five million monthly active users.
MeetMe makes user safety a top priority, devoting approximately
40% of its entire workforce to regulating the content of its apps
and website. MeetMe employs a variety of human and
technological filters to monitor content, including a real-time
human review of every newly posted image. MeetMe has also
developed a proprietary textual-monitoring threat detection system
that programmatically detects possible safety issues and alerts its
safety team of potential abuses.
MeetMe has a zero-tolerance policy for abusive behavior among
its users and encourages its members to report abuse, with a
simple, one-click reporting feature. MeetMe removes more than 1,000
user profiles per day as part of its content review process. MeetMe
also provides its users with various privacy-setting options that
allow them to manage who can see their profile and make contact
with them. MeetMe also allows its users to block specific profiles
entirely.
As part of its safety commitment, MeetMe promptly and
proactively reports instances of abusive behavior and inappropriate
content posting to the proper authorities. In addition, MeetMe
promptly and proactively reports potential safety issues (such as
self-harm or potential suicidal behavior) to local authorities.
MeetMe screens each new daily registrant against databases of
known sex offenders in the United States and regularly screens all
active users against these same lists, blocking registrations and
activity from known sex offenders. MeetMe has a proprietary
age bracketing system to prevent adults from communicating with and
viewing the profiles of minors (and vice versa).
MeetMe has taken numerous steps to educate its users –
particularly minors – about the dangers of online activity, and in
particular, the potential dangers of meeting a stranger in person.
MeetMe prominently displays safety messages to every new user of
its mobile apps. MeetMe never pinpoints users on a map, or
gives their exact locations.
MeetMe created and operates SocialSafety.org, an educational
resource for online awareness.
About MeetMe, Inc.
MeetMe® is a leading social network for meeting new people in
the US and a public market leader for social discovery (NASDAQ:
MEET). MeetMe makes it easy to discover new people to chat with on
mobile devices. With approximately 90 percent of traffic coming
from mobile and more than one million total daily active users,
MeetMe is fast becoming the social gathering place for the mobile
generation. MeetMe is a leader in mobile monetization with a
diverse revenue model comprising advertising, native advertising,
virtual currency, and subscription. MeetMe apps are available on
iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple languages, including English,
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Chinese (Traditional
and Simplified), Russian, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish and Korean. For
more information, please visit meetmecorp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including the percentage of our workforce we
will devote to regulating the content of our apps and website,
whether we will continue to employ a variety of human and
technological filters to monitor content, including a real-time
human review of every newly posted image, whether we will continue
to use our proprietary textual-monitoring threat detection system
to programmatically detect possible safety issues, whether we will
continue to encourage our members to report abuse with a simple,
one-click reporting feature, whether we will continue to remove
user profiles as part of our content review process and if so at
what rate, whether we will continue to provide our users with
various privacy-setting options that allow them to manage who can
see their profile and make contact with them, and to allow user to
block specific profiles entirely, whether we will continue to
promptly and proactively report instances of abusive behavior,
inappropriate content posting and potential safety issues to the
proper authorities, whether we will continue to screen each new
daily registrant against databases of known sex offenders in the
United States and regularly screen all active users against those
same lists, blocking registrations and activity from known sex
offenders, whether will continue to prevent adults from
communicating with and viewing the profiles of minors (and vice
versa), whether we will continue to take steps to educate our
users, whether we will continue our policy of not locating users on
a map or giving their exact locations, and whether will continue to
operate socialsafety.org. All statements other than statements of
historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements.
The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,”
“intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,”
“project,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they
relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our
current expectations and projections about future events and
financial trends that we believe may affect our financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial
needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that
our applications will not function easily or otherwise as
anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features
and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events
affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile
operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that
degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected
issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices.
Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and the Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended June 30, 2016. Any forward-looking statement
made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made.
Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may
emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict
all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by
law.
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Investors:MKR Group Inc.Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers,
323-468-2300meet@mkr-group.com
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