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another myspace thing
| Wed, 02-08-2006 - 2:24am |
this is gonna sound stupid, but I'm not as savvy as my teen. Close, but not as much. He has a myspace page. I have a link to it but I don't know how to navigate the site. Sounds totally stupid, since I clearly can get around here. Anyone wanna help out a lame mom who thought she knew what she was doing, but thinks there must be more?
Leslie

so, this is his myspace page. It never changes. I can see the public comments, but they don't make any sense. It's like hearing only one end of a conversation. He has a lot of stuff on it, but it never really changes. Am I missing something?
Edited 2/8/2006 3:48 pm ET by momtb4
I haven't posted here in ages but do lurk pretty regularly. I have been following the MySpace thread with great interest since learning my neice had one a few months ago. Seeing her site was a real eye opener to say the least.
Just this past week one of our local news channels did an investigation regarding teens using MySpace. The reporter spent some time surfing through kids sites and collected enough information from the kids sites and their friends sites that she was able to go and knock on their doors at their homes !!!
You should have seen the looks on the parents faces when they learned how their kids had been found. Some kids had a lot of information such as their name, DOB,school and a picture. Others just their first name and a picture and some only a first name but through their friends sites the reporter was able to put the pieces together and find each kids home.
One girl had a dad that is a local police officer. A couple of the parents said they monitor their kids sites.
I think the site can be used to keep tabs on kids and their friends which could be a good thing as in my neices situation. But the only safe way to have one of these sites is if your kid and all of their friends are set to private.
My daughter doesn't have a MySpace butI have spent some time looking through MySpace sites of kids my daughter goes to school with. Even when one of them is set to private...unless the friends sites they are posting on is also private...your kids are still exposed.