People Hide Behind Myspace!

Have you ever thought you were talking to your Mr. Perfect online. He seems like he has everything that you could ever dream of. Well that's what you are thinking, but do you really think about are you talking to some fat and hairy guy on the other side of the screen. You may forget it is very easy for people to portray there image over myspace. Just because they have a sexy picture of them on there profile does not mean that its them. That's why everyone needs to be aware that Myspace is not all that its made out to be. Normen Oder discovered that "Fugitives in Philadelphia and Bakersfield, CA, using library computers to access Myspace, were caught by the police in December. Brandon Lee Bigsby, 24, a sex offender in violation of his parole, was arrested"(Oden). This just proves to the weird unreliable people that you can be trading your information with on Myspace.
Antone Gonsalves says" It is inferred that legal action is considered if Myspace does not increase its age limit to 16 and find a way to verify ages"(Gonsalves). This came from a family that is threatening to sue Myspace because there young teenage kids have had sexual encounters over Myspace. There problem is, is that the true ages of people need to posted on the users profile because, if there kids new that they were talking to forty and fifty year old men they wouldn't have been in this situation. That is why it is so important not to even put yourself into that kind of position over the web. Its normally doomed for disaster.
Parents are getting smarter about letting there kids go into the Myspace world. They are wanting to patrol Myspace and watch who there kids are talking to and who there kids are portraying to be. They have came up with a software Julia Angwin says "The article focuses on the development of parental notification software by the social networking website Myspace.com which would allow parents of children who use the website to see how their child is representing him or herself on the site. This would be a great way to stop people from portraying someone they really aren't.

Refrences

Angwin, Julia. (2007 January 17). Myspace Moves to Give Parents More Information. Wall Street Journal. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23699489&site=ehost-live

Gonsalves, Antone. (2007, January 22). My Space Teen Troubles. Information Week. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=23837905&site=ehost-live

Oder, Normen. (2007, February 01). Fugitives at PLs on Myspace. Library Journal.

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