Website Makes It Easy For Teens To Post Personal Info, Risque Photos

[Roland99]

My local NBC affiliate (whose General Manager is a big *-bot) is calling MySpace.com some haven for underage girls to be exploited by sexual predators.

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4096732


SEX SEX SEX!!!



All parents need to do is keep an eye on what their children do on the family PC. I keep an eye on my daughter's websites on MySpace and Xanga and make sure nothing too personal or too revealing is put up there but this TV station is making it into practically an online orgy.


They did just mention that Rupert Murdoch is looking to buy MySpace for about $500 million and direct teens to FOX TV shows. Interesting....

[info being]

1. Its actually true

Myspace can be a lot of fun.

[Angry Girl]

2. Oh, no! Not Murdoch! damn it

That's really bad news about him wanting to buy MySpace.com and directing users to POX TV....

On Edit: Actually it's not bad news until the guy actually buys the site but, hell, I'd buy MySpace.com if I could afford it!

[Newsjock]

3. It Must Be Sweeps™

November is one of the key TV-ratings months, and that's why local news shows from coast to coast are dragging out the most sensationalist tripe they can find. And if you compare notes, you find that the same "shocking!" stories get used on station after station after station.

Catholic High School Girls In Trouble... The Shocking Story You Won't Believe!... plus Windy Stormfront with your Tri-State forecast, tonight at 11.

[Roland99]

4. True. They're also doing an expose on RED LIGHT RUNNERS!!

Murderers in waiting.

[LTR]

11. I heard one yesterday

Drivers who have their licences revoked or suspended are still driving around, and they're trying to kill you!

:scared:

[aden_nak]

5. The internet is full of sex? Holy crap, would have been news in 1997!

[LeftHander]

6. Myspace...interesting.

My daughter and all her friends are on myspace. This is where kids mostly link up, meet and learn about new music. A myspace site is pretty much standard for bands and the under 30 crowd.

acocrding to my daughter teens that "date" to much from myspace are known as myspace sluts.

No doubt these kids are expressing some sexuality on myspace it is mixed with 20 somethings and teens.

Plus the ads are all from Victoria's Secret and dating services.

I check my daughters site now and them and leave a comment just to let her know I'm watching. In fact because she found out I was checking up on her some of her friends changed their pictures....teens in underwear and bikinis laying on beds is just a bit over the top...one girls mom found out she was doing this and put the skids on her.

YOu basically have to watch kids like a hawk. Give them freedom and rein them in when they get out of line.

It's called parenting. Someting that repuke suburbanites with heads in television know nothing about. I hear all the time from my daughter how parents of some of her friends are tottally clueless about their teens. And how they hardly ever talk to them....that is really sad.

You have to be an involved and active parent when you have a teen in the house....

Where are you going what are doing, how long, call if plans change, tell us where you are going and who you are with.....all the time.

[Roland99]

7. Hear! Hear!

[Little Star]

8. My-space is dangerous for kids

All the kids in my grandsons 6th grade class were on there. My daughter monitored closely. All of a sudden some unknown individual was there asking where my grandson lived. My grandson was immediately taken off that site and is not allowed to use anything like that again. My daughter got some special software to monitor every move he makes and he knows it! Too dangerous for kids.

[Beaverhausen]

9. We have a DU group on MySpace

it's pretty quiet in there.

http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=101167770&Mytoken=2cc8e091-e18f-4c98-afd5-9378a0d57fc6

[Roland99]

12. Cool. Thanks for link.

[gauguin57]

10. Keeping an eye on my niece's Xanga, I've seen some really scary

stuff on the sites of her friends that link to hers. If some of these parents knew what their kids were revealing -- their cellphone numbers, what towns they live in, when their dads are gonna be out of town. Yikes. I think some of their folks have put the kibosh on, though, cuz things seem to be getting better. It's mostly just music and high-school gossip now (and the girls sending supportive messages to depressed friends, etc.), not so much of the underwear photos.

But I see kids whom I know must be 14 claiming to be 16 and 17, and talking about a lot of suggestive things on their sites -- they're playing with dynamite, and don't even know it.

One of my niece's friends nearly got kicked out of school for what she was putting on her site (trashing the reputations of other kids -- criticizing teachers by name -- typical unthinking teen stuff).

Parents of computer-savvy kids need to get computer-savvy, QUICK!