NO, but there have been numerous other crimes that have generated from My Space. I’m shocked that an otherwise careful teen would have posted her picture and cell phone number there. CELL PHONE! I wonder if her parents knew?
My Space has figured in numerous sexual assaults, enticement, and stalking cases reported over the past 2 years. Also, police entrapment of sexual predators. Even if no crime emanates from use of the web site, why should we encourage our teens to frequent a site where the whole point seems to be banter with sexual innuendo?
I’ve never heard of a teen using My Space to study chess moves, or to research nuclear physics.
The issue centers on an excellent point you mentioned...did the parents know. All too often in todays society far too many parents have allowed the computer and video games to become the “baby sitters” of our kids. When we hire babysitters we should be checking references, meeting with the babysitter before introducing him/her to the kids to guage the character of the person we are allowing to supervise our kids in our absence.
Too few parents take the same time and effort to know what their kids are doing on the internet or in video games. This is not, and should not, be the role of government - well - unless you hold to Hillary Clinton’s perspective on kids and how we must all share in raising them.