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About Myspace.com
Topic Started: Jan 28 2007, 06:27 PM (123 Views)
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Here in this and other parts of this forum are some tips for parents who want to better understand MySpace. I hope that you will use these to become better-informed about how networking sites work and how to avoid their dangers, and will communicate with your child about his or her MySpace usage.

MySpace is a website where people can create profiles that include pictures, descriptions, links to/from friends' MySpace pages, and comments from other people. MySpace itself is not evil, and can be a very effective way for people to stay in touch, bands to publicize upcoming concerts, people to get moral support, etc.

The problems occur because not everyone is using MySpace for upstanding purposes. It's very easy for predators to find and contact unsuspecting youth, and for kids to cyber-bully one another. Many parents know that their kids use MySpace, but they think it's ok because the kids don't put in personal information. In most cases, however, one can easily surmise where that child lives, what activities she is involved in, and how old she is by answers to her survey questions or the friends on her contact list. So, not including personal information is not guaranteed to completely protect a child from predators.

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