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Myspace: Good or Bad?
By uhshawk31 - Posted on February 18th, 2007
Tagged: Media
I've done a lot of research lately on Myspace.com, which many of you have probably heard of or even have your own profile. When doing my research I have found that Myspace is very beneficial to people. Myspace allows users to post videos, picture, blogs. Users can chat with their friends and share personal information. A unique thing that I found out was that teens use myspace to mourn the passing of their fellow classmates and friends. I thought that was pretty cool. The main reason why I wrote this blog is because teens might think that Myspace is fun and they can do anything on it, but its the highest rated site for having the most sexual predators. Every month I see something in the news about how a girl is filing a lawsuit against someone she met on myspace because according to her, he sexually abused her. This is a big thing in the world right now because Myspace is expanding internationally and already have sites in many countries. Teens have to use a little common sense when they talk to people on sites like Myspace.com. I mean come on, should you even be talking to someone you don't know and have never heard of? Myspace is doing a very good job to help with the safety of minors, but its really not enough because they still allow teens to do what they want.
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This topic is something that I would like to help out on as much as I can. I want to continue writing about this topic because teens need to know what can happen to them on a place like this.
myspace is an amazing link for friends who have moved away, especially for college and high school friends... it's an easy way to keep in touch. There are certain bits of information that kids should not include in their profiles however, such as their phone #, even town or school! There are ways that worried people can protect themselves. The privacy settings help a lot as well. Also, kids need to be monitored by their parents now and then and should be talked not to talk to strangers on the web.
I personally, have no myspace! I am completely against it! I just dont feel comfortable with people I dont know being able to see me and my information. And people say it is for their friends, well the people that are important to me see and hear from me often, so there is really no need for them to look me up online. There is just too much at risk for that kind of thing.
Take Care,
Nikki
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I think that myspace is a great tool and site, it is just missused by a lot of people. It shouldnt be up to the site to have to make it 100% secure and safe, it should be up to the blogger. They should be smart enough to not befriend strangers, go meeting strangers, put up innappropriate pictures, etc.
It is the bloggers' fault. Not Myspace's.
A bible could be used to murder someone, it doesnt make it a weapon or by anymeans bad.
in terms of Social Darwinism, to people who get hurt by myspace in some way and aren't smart enough to protect themselves from online predators, i say "good."
i hear about sexual predators being caught through myspace now and again. but since i read this post, i know it could possibly happen to me. thankyou for writing this. it was very informative. good thing i don't use myspace much anymore.
I think myspace is bad though because someone stole my identity on it. well not my identity, but they got my password and my email address. i had to change my password to use it again. i hear that happened because you know when you type your password wrong sometimes and the screen says "you need to log in to do that" or something like that, well it goes somewhere else where others can view what you're typing.
I think it's ridiculous that Myspace is blamed for sexual abuse. I agree that Myspace is a generally beneficial tool. That's interesting about the mourning thing! I did not know that! I did have a friend who made a page for her missing brother for a while though - she was trying to find him. He actually got in touch with them again (but I don't know if it was through the page she made or not. I think she actually found his NEW page and that was how she found him, I'm not sure...) though, so that was good.
Anyway, I agree it's mostly useful. I personally use it to keep in touch with my old buddies from high school and new friends in college <3 Things like sexual abuse are the responsibility of people themselves, not a website.