Myspace Security

The questions was asked What do you think will motivate Myspace to offer security settings? by Sara Hesslebroth. She also asks should the regulations be through government or social networking sites? My response to these questions is the only think that I think will motivate Myspace to do something is if someone really gets hurt and takes Myspace to court with the issue. My space is a dangerous place to be talking to people that you don't know. There are settings where you can go on and block yourself from anyone looking at your account. Myspace is trying to help the matter somewhat but they have not gone to the extreme yet. Currently according to Robert Lemos of Security Focus he says "Myspace is advocating a law that would require those found guilty of sex crimes to register all there e-mail addresses with the national database". This doesn't stop alot of the sex offenders from getting on here still. It is so easy for anyone to create a new email account through the hundreds out there. They need to go to the extreme by asking for social security numbers. I do think Myspace could be regulated by social networks if they right people are doing it. But if problems continue to proceed then I think the government will have to get involved.


Lemos, Robert. (2006). Myspace teams to create sex-offender database. www.securityfocus.com/news/11428