"At last count, over 55 million people had "space" on the site, including countless teenagers who use their pages to communicate their thoughts on everything from school to music to the opposite sex."
With 55,000,000 people doing ANYTHING together there are are going to be a number of rapes and murders as well as incidents. Sad but true - it's human nature.
There is nothing about Myspace that makes it more dangerous than any other part of the internet where people talk openly about who they are.
"There is nothing about Myspace that makes it more dangerous than any other part of the internet where people talk openly about who they are."
Agree. Kids and adults have an opportunity to be stupid on millions of personal websites, including yahoo, msn, aol, etc. This has nothing to do with MySpace and everything to do with smearing Murdoch/Fox.
When I investigated "myspace" the thing that bothered me, as a parent, was that rather than an innocent blog site (where kids could get into trouble for posting TMI, much like LiveJournal), the site is "layered", and the "browse" feature can allow kids to access pornography without their parents having a clue. I will say, that they have gotten better at "policing" the photos, but some still make it through.
How many of those people with "space" are parents who login to monitor what their kids and their kids' friends are posting? I'm one... who else?
I have a very good picture of the group surrounding my daughter based on what I see there, and frankly it's scary. Since social services won't let me lock my daughter in a closet until she's 18, I just have to be aware and make sure she's not posting too much information.