Sex on Myspace

According to Lewis Perdue "Just as sex has shaped the Internet, the Internet also influences sex and our society in ways that could have very substantial cultural implications, including changes in the community standards definition of obscenity, empowering women working in the sex field. and moving adult material from its traditional male orientation to one that caters to women's desires as well"(Perdue). This is what kids browse all day. They don't know what to click on when they are on Myspace. There are not signs on the site saying only for people over the age of 18. Parents need to be careful of where there kids look on the Internet. They may soon be coming to you asking about the birds and bees.
Brad Franklin with Websafekid.com says "Myspace tries to have controls and its has monitoring procedures in place but many things have slipped through. There are groups that promote homosexual practices as well as groups that show pornographic photos"(Franklin). Myspace needs to come up with different ways to screen this pornography from certain age groups. They need to do some experimenting and testing to find the right answer.
You would never think that older men are trying to meet up with your young kids to have sex from the Internet. But your wrong there are so many sex offenders out there that love Myspace because they are able to lie about there age and they can say something to grab kids attention. For example ABC 7 Dan Noyes says "Martin Nguyen is a sex offender guilty of assault with the intent to commit rape, sodomy or oral copulation and On Myspace, he's Might Mouse who's definitely fun to hang around with"(Noyes). Now what young child wouldn't want to become that persons friend. He names himself Mickey Mouse then says hes lots of fun. These are people out there that try to lure young kids in to become their victims. Its just not older people trying to meet younger kids somewhere its also sharing pornorgraphic shots of themselves posing or touching themselves. This could ruin a kids life if they really new what they where looking at.
Overall Myspace needs some huge security. They need to start doing background checks on people to make sure they aren't sex offenders trying to get on the web to persuade some young innocent child to meet up with them. If Myspace isn't more careful they could find themselves in alot more lawsuits.

References

Franklin, Brad. (2005). The Pros and Cons of Myspace. http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/The-Pros-and-Cons-of-MySpace/104924

Noyes, Dan. (2006). Registered Sex Offenders on Myspace. ABC7. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=4773729

Perdue, l. (2006). Eroticabiz: How sex shaped the Internet. In D. D. Waskul (Ed.), Net.seXX: Readins on sex, pornography, and the Internet (p.259-293). New York: Peter Lang.