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How to find someone on myspace/Disturbing things
Topic Started: Jan 28 2007, 06:29 PM (120 Views)
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How to find someone on MySpace:


Check it out for yourself - ask your child to show you his or her profile. If your child's not available at the moment and you're curious, here's how you might find it:

- Go to http://www.myspace.com/
- Sign up for a free account (takes two minutes!)
- Click on "Search" in the light blue band at the top
- Enter your search criteria
- If you don't see who you're looking for, look for friends or other kids at the same school.



Then, when you're at their profile:

- Click on "View all of ___'s friends." You may have to do this many times to find who you're looking for.
- Look in the comments the person's received—the person you're looking for may have written one.



Here are is a small sampling of some of the disturbing things I've personally seen or heard of with local kids on MySpace:

- Most jr. high kids state their age as 16 or 17, since MySpace doesn't allow public pages for kids under 16.
- Some kids are making fake pages about other kids. Not only are these pages slanderous, but in many cases other kids believe that's the child's real page, at least for awhile.
- Someone copied a girl's face from her MySpace picture and pasted it onto a pornographic picture.
- In order to look "cool," some kids create online personas that include cursing and sexual innuendo that doesn't represent who they really are. (or maybe it does??)
- Kids will delete profiles to satisfy parents, and then create another profile they never tell the parent about.



Other networking sites:

MySpace isn't the only networking site around. Other networking sites include (but are not limited to): Xanga, Friendster, Blogger, Facebook, Alldumb.com, Rotten.com, FaceParty and Livejournal.com. Often, the kids from one school will tend to concentrate on one or two sites.

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