[Dallas59]

Good gawd. Can't they meet each other on regular "Hi, I'm Jane/Joe. I'm 25 and look like this..", chat sites?

[Sloth]

The social networking Web site allows users to create profiles that can include photos, personal information and even cell phone numbers.

ANY freaking webspace allows you to publish all those things, too. I wish people would quit blaming a particular technology or program (MySpace, file-sharing, chat, etc.) for stupid things some people do with it.

[wideminded]

A teenager who visits us frequently recently confided to my wife that she was concerned about one of her close friends. This girl was about 14-15 and unusually attractive. She hopes to be a model (quite plausible) and had put pictures of herself on myspace. Having seen these, many older men were contacting her with sexually suggestive comments. She doesn't have a father at home and her mother doesn't seem to keep a close enough eye on her. There was some concern that she was starting to communicate with these men.

Our babysitter didn't want to get her friend in trouble, but was also worried about her. It was decided that my wife would speak to the mother, which apparently was helpful.

[dawn53]

Our community policing officer told us at our Neighborhood Watch meeting to "Keep your kids off Myspace."

My problem with myspace is that parents aren't aware of the layers on the site. Sure it looks like a blog, but without even trying, any kid can pull up pornographic pictures, even if they're not looking for them.

See somebody's profile, click on to look at "more photos" and boom, their "more photos" are pornographic. Myspace tries to edit out these types of photos, but the site is just too big, IMHO, for them to keep up with all the posters, so parents should beware of the possibility.

[smith288]

I have a profile on myspace but I found the place to be
A) Horribly designed
B) Annoying with the crap people place on their page
C) Explicit - Seems to have no moderation for the images people place there.