Um, well, actually, no they can't. You can post whatever photo you wish on your profile page. Big sister. Ugly girl up the street. Why...you could even find a picture on the internet and post that. Here's my picture:
Aren't I pretty?
Posted on 03/02/2006 9:05:04 AM PST by george wythe
if an 11 year old is online giving out her name and address..you damn right im blaming the parents
"FIFTY MILLION USERS? Try a few hundred thousand."
they have programs to let you see what they are saying and doing..if you got an 11 yearold online then one of these programs is a good idea
Um, well, actually, no they can't. You can post whatever photo you wish on your profile page. Big sister. Ugly girl up the street. Why...you could even find a picture on the internet and post that. Here's my picture:
Aren't I pretty?
Not enough. A man who investigated hundreds of cases of abuse (read about it in a thread on FR) in which teens were paid to show themselves naked on their webcams, decided to check the backgrounds in hundreds of these teen webcam caches. It made him ill but he did note that overwhelmingly the backgrounds were middle class dens, living rooms, dining rooms. "Public" rooms. Parents normally do leave teens alone in the house, sometimes just for brief shopping trips.
Care to weigh in...?
Hullo, Doncha think the teenager you pick up is gonna be a bit alarmed when YOU show up, instead of Ms. Portman? And, by the way, people have gone to prison for posting false identities to e-Harmony... because e-Harmony cares about preventing false identities.
It's like locking your door. If someone is determined enough, they can break in. But the fact that even entering your premises now becomes an obvious crime, and the fact that it is considerably more difficult deters most would-be break-ins.
The internet is the last of that those kids problems it sounds like to me. Why would you want to regulate the internet when it is the parent that is at fault? By your description it sounds more like you should regulate the parent.
Just my obersvation.
>> From the full story at the link. Reading is FUNdamental: <<
I know how to read. I'm just not stupid enough to believe an outrageous claim like that. Do you seriously believe that one in five Americans has a myspace.com web site? What they pronbably are measuring is the total cumulative number of hits they've gotten.
It's not just Americans who have Myspace accounts. We live in a big world.
But some of the myspace accounts are probably duplicates. Also, you need to sign up if you want to use some of the functions, so there are probably a significant number of myspace accounts that have only been used a couple of times.
"Hullo, Doncha think the teenager you pick up is gonna be a bit alarmed when YOU show up, instead of Ms. Portman? "
How do you know that I'm NOT Natalie? You don't, do you?
Well, I'm not. Nor am I cruising MySpace looking to pick up teenagers. My point remains the same, though. What you see on MySpace is not necessarily who's writing there. It's the same on all these sites.
Your mystery date...Scott Ritter!
yeah maybe but I met me wife there.
"What they pronbably are measuring is the total cumulative number of hits they've gotten.
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Actually, that's not quite right. That's the number of accounts that have been set up by users. There are probably a bunch of people with multiple accounts, but the number of users is still really high. BTW, MySpace is not restricted just to teenagers from the USA, you know.
54 million? Probably not. I'd estimate something in the 20-something million actual people. Probably less than 1/3 of that number use the site regularly. Still a lot of folks.
How many are there with their real names? Probably not many. How many have their real photo on their profiles? Probably about 25%.
OK, then. You want to be REALLY frightened? Go to http://www.livejournal.com. Lots of teenagers there, too, and it's not a nice little site like MySpace.
There's this search feature up at the top of the home page. Type in something really nasty, then change the category to Interest and click Search.
You want to worry about anonymous sites where teenagers set up accounts and post stuff. Worry about livejournal. Forget about MySpace.
Not really. You would rather leave it up to the Gum't!
My daughter didn't have time to get in trouble. It took about an hour, for her to get on, off, and out. She set it up without my permission, and when I found out, I revoked her computer priveleges.
You tend to your own imaginary families and kids. You seem oblivious to real ones. Since when did "we" rely on Gum't for intelligence, or parenting skills? They sure do a good job with schools, don't they?
How many attorney are out there slavering for the chance to file a criminal liability lawsuit against MySpace dot com? All they need is one parent with a dead teenage daughter that they can blame on MySpace; for allowing minors in, along with known pedeophiles.
It could yet happen...
Oh, please. No form of argument is lamer than "That's not so bad, look at this!"
Besides, livejournal is hardly the same type of web site as MySpace.
You have now bored me. Goodbye.
Whoa, MM - I'm going to have to start treating you nicer! ;-)
LOL, you guys are all too predictable.
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