There were minors who tried to signup when the threshold was 18. Some would post elsewhere in their profile that they were younger.
It is harder for a 14 year old to pass for 18 than a 17 year old.
Funny thing is that I and many of my friends list our ages in the high 90s. We don't WANT to be trolled upon by random online daters. We use it to network with our friends and friends of friends we've met a few times.
I know a number of monogamous couples approaching 50 who are on there.
What I want to know is if ANY of this same behavior goes on at Friendster (I have a Friendster account but early on Myspace was more stable and had a couple better features).
Myspace gets dinged for behavior that exists on other sites and existed at Myspace prior to Murdoch's ownership. I am not a Murdoch defender (and the entertainment on Fox is often NOT respectful of or "conservative" in nature) but believe that some of this is misdirected rage.
I've tried to feed some conservative hosts, like Laura Ingraham, some additional details about the strengths and failings of Myspace (because she'll discuss it on her show at times). I don't know what if any of my comments have gotten through her staff.
It serves as a "topical" issue but the sell-out of major stores like JC Penney, Target, and Lord & Taylor to stocking slutwear (and promoting it as such) should have been a bigger story. And parents paid those shopping bills.
We meed more parents than parents trying to be "best friends" to their kids.
I don't understand why we need to defend Murdoch at all. Sure, Fox News isn't as nutty as CNN, but Murdoch knows that is what makes it sucessful. It isn't as if Murdoch has some kind of inner moral beacon guiding him to produce (relatively) unbiased news broadcasts, and FN would go as far left as any of the other networks if there were any indication that such a change would help the bottom line.
Moreover, everything else Fox makes is base, disgusting crap. Let the libs pount on Murdoch, I'll shed no tears.