thoughts on myspace

[xzvrw2]

There is a feature on myspace that you can make your profile private.
That means only your friends can see your profile.
That will help, it wont solve it.
I think that myspace is not to blame.
If myspace wasn't there, perverts will find another website that they can stalk kids on.
Even here on ChiefDelphi.
All i need is your picture, and where you live.
If i dint see where you live, and i really want to find you, learn the site.
Find out what those numbers mean by team number.
Then once i find out, look at the FIRST website, find out where that team is at, what school it is, and sit outside of it until i see you.
There is any number of ways that perverts can find you, even without myspace.
So you need to look at what are the other factors, the factors that the people not don't see, but don't want to see.
Those parents and even children, don't want to see that it is also their fault.
It is the parents fault by not watching over their children and seeing what they are doing, they let their kids do what ever they want.
It is the kids fault for posing that they are older then they actually are, agreeing to talk to those people and agreeing at add them and agreeing to meet them.
Tell your kids that if they ever agree to meet any one, they will not be meeting any one except at school and home until they are 24.
Why 24, thats because thats when they leave your insurance when they are a full time student at college.
And you know the way to monitor your kids on myspace or face book or anything like that, you know your child's password, if they change it, they are done till 24.
If they delete their messages, they are done till 24.
That will not solve it.
I grantee it.
But it will help.

[Nawaid Ladak]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Just as an aside, here's a draft of the House resolution, which would "ban" MySpace. (Dated May 9^th; it may have changed since then.)

Note this definition:That covers a whole lot of the internet. And it puts a great burden on the people and organizations who would be forced to implement the protections outlined in the resolution—librarians, for example.

But it's not outlawing the service itself, as was previously suggested. That's very probably unconstitutional.

Tell tom to get a new website

www.myspace.ca
www.myspace.co.uk

those are all good options to buy out
it's not like you have to have Bandwidth and servers in the US.
Try Niagra Falls Canada...... It's close enoguh to be legel lol

and anyways, doesn't this break the 1st amendment. FREE SPEACH even on the net. maybe have a disclaimer when you first go on that directs you to the Terms and Conditions of www.myspace.com

there, thats my $0.02

[Bill_Hancoc]

I agree with the majority of the people here saying that its the parents responsibilty. But on a few other things i kinda disagree but still dont warrent putting the blame on myspace. Just another twist to the story, if im not mistaken this is the same one that the mother also had a myspace detailing how she goes and gets high after she drops her daughter off at school... Just checked that was a differnet story not this one but still another story about the "EVIL" myspace.

The young (<15) girls that post pictures of themselveson myspace that portray themselves to be "SEXY" or lie about their age or do other things that perverts go around and look for to seduce are automaticly removed from my sypathy to a degree.


The people who dont do the things listed above and are contacted by perverts to meet them at a spefied location at a certain time and they will go spend time together. These are the real victims. These people who by no fault of their own were contacted for some reason by a person who seemed to want to know them and appeared to be their friend. Then they were attacked by some pervert that lied about their own age.

To add more to the roasting pot the girl who we are talking about also was allowed to go to parties where drugs and alochol were present. Parents need to keep better track of where their kids are who they hang out with and what they are doing with them.

I think that the parents are to blame and only in a few cases should they be held liable for possibly meeting somebody through the website who attacked somebody else.

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by BurningQuestion

SNIP
because of the fact that it is extremely distracting and potentially addictive.
SNIP

Remind you of anywhere...?

[artdutra04]

Myspace is one of those things if used responsibly, it can be a great website. But more and more often as of late it is becoming increasingly "fake". This is not the fault of the website, but the users. Americans need to stop trying to pass the blame off to someone else (i.e. it's not my fault I'm fat because I eat fast food every meal of the day, it's McDonald's fault) and start taking responsibility for their own actions.

[aallen88]

The internet is a scary thing. Whether you're careful or not, its still dangerous. I don't think there's anything wrong with a website that you can talk to your friends with, etc. if you're safe about it, but I am NOT a big fan of myspace.

Do you want to know how much time is wasted over myspace? Ok, granted you're not nearly as obsessed with it than CD , but here, there are adults and students regulating and keeping things safe, but even then, its not completely safe.

Its not just girls younger than 15 putting "revealing" pictures of themselves on their space...I couldn't believe how ridiculous some of it was when I was looking through one's of kids I know. And I'm talking high school seniors and juniors...where you're almost 18.

I'll never forget what my friend, a silly programmer said to me...how he even scared himself of how easy it was to find things out he shouldn't on the internet. Parents need to find a way to explain to their kids how unsafe and unstable the internet can be.

Of course...that's just how I feel.

[Travis Hoffman]

Apparently there is new legislation in Congress now to block MySpace in all public schools and public libraries across the United States.

MySpace has no place inside a school building or a library, period. Students are in school to learn. Stop posting blogs about that crush you have on Billy Joe or Mary Jane (or worse) and start studying instead.

Outside of that, I agree with the rest of what was posted. Parents - do your dang jobs and pay better attention to what your kids are doing with their free time.

I'd also say that Brandon should write a script that blocks Chit-Chat from any user who's logged on from a school or library computer. Brandon can do that real easy-like, can't you Brandon??????

[Donut]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

MySpace has no place inside a school building or a library, period. Students are in school to learn. Stop posting blogs about that crush you have on Billy Joe or Mary Jane (or worse) and start studying instead.

Outside of that, I agree with the rest of what was posted. Parents - do your dang jobs and pay better attention to what your kids are doing with their free time.

I'd also say that Brandon should write a script that blocks Chit-Chat from any user who's logged on from a school or library computer. Brandon can do that real easy-like, can't you Brandon??????

What's odd is Myspace is so addictive that kids at my school that barely know how to operate word can use a proxy to get around the web blocker at our school so they can access myspace because so many people want to use it the information gets shared around.

On an unrelated note, my school already blocks both myspace and chiefdelphi at school (kind of annoying during build season, when I say "I'll just look it up on CD", then realise I have to wait until I get home to do it).

[sanddrag]

Why do they block ChiefDelphi at school? Because they are scared that you might learn more here than what they can teach you?

[CmptrGk]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Why do they block ChiefDelphi at school? Because they are scared that you might learn more here than what they can teach you?

this is complety off topic, but since the words "game" or "games" shows up a bit on cd, those fancy autoblockers block it.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Originally Posted by Donut

What's odd is Myspace is so addictive that kids at my school that barely know how to operate word can use a proxy to get around the web blocker at our school so they can access myspace because so many people want to use it the information gets shared around.

On an unrelated note, my school already blocks both myspace and chiefdelphi at school).

That's perfectly true. Our school's webfilter blocks myspace.com, but if you walk into any computer classroom, there are at least 5 kids logged into myspace. Luckily, Chiefdelphi isn't blocked.

For my thoughts on myspace though, it's just one of those things that works in theory, but in all reality, can turn out to be somewhat of a problem.

[Donut]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Why do they block ChiefDelphi at school? Because they are scared that you might learn more here than what they can teach you?

Actually, Chief Delphi is currently blocked because it is a "message forum" (despite the fact it somehow misses proboards forums). When they used an earlier blocker (I think it was back in 2004 or so) it was blocked because the word "balls" appears too many times

Anyway, my whole take on the myspace debacle is it was a good idea to start with, and now it's just gotten kind of silly. And it has no place in any school.

[xzvrw2]

I am not saying that innocent children don't get kidnapped, but most of the kids that got kidnapped and raped from myspace, that i have seen on the news, have shown that they are 18 have 10 pounds of makeup on, and go looking for guys they don't know. Those are most of the kidnappings and rapes from myspace, that i have seen on the news here. If it is different where you are then please inform me, but from all i herd is that it has only been those kid of girls.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by xzvrw2

I am not saying that innocent children don't get kidnapped, but most of the kids that got kidnapped and raped from myspace, that i have seen on the news, have shown that they are 18 have 10 pounds of makeup on, and go looking for guys they don't know. Those are most of the kidnappings and rapes from myspace, that i have seen on the news here. If it is different where you are then please inform me, but from all i herd is that it has only been those kid of girls.

Why does it matter what kind of girls it is, exactly?

[Greg Perkins]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

Why does it matter what kind of girls it is, exactly?

I dont think it nessesarily depends on the "girl" its more of the actions that are taken to get themselves into "hotwater". Since we are talking about girls (and my cousin is a glowing example of this), they don't have common sense about the internet. They think its all funny when they get talking to someone, and it's usually just a big joke..until it goes horribly wrong. My cousin, was 17 and attending highschool, she met this 26 year old man, and the day she turned 18 she never returned home. Her foster parents had a big party all setup, and when she NEVER showed up they got concerend. The police put out an APB across the US, and about 2 weeks later she recieved a call from a payphone in Las Vegas. She and her "boyfriend" met up at the school, and they drove across country. Now there was nothing to be done legally since she was 18 and the foster parents had no custody after she turned 18 so she's now living on the run with a strange man. The internet is serious ladies (and gents) don't EVER give out your informatoin unless you know the person directly.