Myspace and Kids?

According to CNN.com a 13 year old girl made friends with a guy named Josh....he later broke off their friendship and she commited suicide the next day....come to find out Josh was made up but they know that it was someone affliacted with the girl...........Do you think Myspace is too advanced for children under 16......what are your views on Myspace and the other websites like it?

Myspace and Kids?

No offense.. but myspace.com is not nearly as bad as people make it sound. I'm only 16 years old, but have had a myspace since I was 14. I consider myself a very mature person. For me, and almost everyone I know, myspace is just a convenient tool to keep in touch with friends. I have a lot of friends on myspace that I don't get to see on a daily basis and it's nice to see what's new with them. Yes, of course, there is that SMALL percentage of people that get involved with people they don't know at all and they get mixed up in bad situations. If you are a parent and don't want your child to have a myspace remember that they can always have it set to private - so only their friends can see their profile. Myspace is like anything else in this world - somebody's gonna find a problem with it...no matter what the circumstances are. And for the parent who said that they don't let their child use the internet... that's not a good idea. The internet can connect you to FAR more good things than bad things. The internet is who we are in technology today and your son/daughter will probably have a really hard time making it in the real world - and I mean this with all due respect.

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Hate it.

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i don't use myspace at all and i would never let my son use it either, actually i don't let him use the computer much at all. Myspace has had lots of publicity over the last yr. Did yo hear about the girl and guy who started talking on there and the girl convinced the guy they couldn't be together unles he killed her parents which he later did.

That site grosses me out and i think they should remove it from the WWW

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I do not like my space and do not believe children should interact on it unless they are 18. I believe the computer is a learning tool and social life is done face to face not a computer. especially for kids.

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myspace is too advanced for kids under 16

im 15 and i agree

when i was 14 i became the victim of a myspace crime.......

police and everything got involved

lost a lot of friends

i was stupid, she was stupid, myspace is stupid

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Sounds like this girl had untreated health problems to being with. I do not blame myspace. You find the horror stories we blame myspace for in our communities. Our homes, churches, schools, and safe havens meant for children. Adults need to open their eyes a little more and know that kids are social, and they will use these tools.

I firmly believe children should be allowed to use networking places like myspace. What better way to teach them how to be safe about their personal information in your home, then letting them goto college and make stupid decisions, based on the simple fact no one taught them any better.

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I dont think that is a sutiable website for a kid under 14 ...

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its not a problem unless you let it be. ppl under the age of 18 can make private profiles. private pictures. and if you are a parent then regulate what your kid even puts on the page. otherwise theres no real harm. you can even block users over the age of 18 from contacting you if you are underage. and vice versa from younger ppl if you are over 18. there are a lot of safeties, people just need to know how to use them.

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You won't stop the people who want to talk to their friends 24/7 from getting on.

I think it's just a place for people to be idiots.

Facebook seems to be better, but at this rate, I'd rather not deal with any of it, and usually the people on Myspace has parents who never taught them about internet safety...

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I do not approve of myspace. Many kids think it is ok because they can switch their accounts to private so only their friends can see it. Well what if they accept a bad guy on their list that they think is their friend or someone they think is ok for them.

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i love myspace! my kids do too! they are 7 and 9 and on it ALL THE TIME just chatting all day long. those little rascals... but oh what little joys they are : )

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As long as the teen is responsible enough to handle the responsibility of myspace they should be able to use it. If you just add people you know, and you don't give out any personal information you should be safe. Its these idiots who "collect" friends, have their real names on there, are getting on web cam, or something like that that are getting in trouble with it. Don't think all teenagers are that stupid.

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Yes, I am 20 and I recently got a myspace account just to find out what is so great about it. I was surprised because I just uploaded one picture and really was confused about setting to a private profile and you have no idea the perverts that are out there and was getting nasty messages and IMs and name calling. I just don't think its a good place for kids under 18 its sick.

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i just did an article on this story. I think parents need to be more responsible and quit blaming myspace and others when something goes wrong. its a website, it has no porn or drug advertisment how is it too advanced?

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to all the mspace haters that gave answers BITE ME!!! IT'S NOT MYSPACE'S FAULT THAT THE GIRL COMMITTED SUCIDE. It's aparent that she had some issues that should have gotten professional attention. Myspace is a good site QUIT BLAMING THEM FOR STUFF LIKE THIS DOPES!!!

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Look, if you're a concerned parent don't worry. MySpace is your friend. I'm in my teens and you know what, my dad has a MySpace. I got a MySpace back in 2003 when there were only 15,000 people on the network and 25 of them were my friends. I never talked to anyone I hadn't met in real life.

Seriously, kids after my generation must be wack or something, I mean who the F talks to strangers over the internet?

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Nothing is wrong with myspace. Ill tell you why.

Scenario 1: Slutty girl age 15 makes a myspace doesnt set it to private and post slutty pics of herself on myspace adds a bunch of guys over 18 years old and is very provacative. She and a guy begin talking and they meet up somewhere and shes raped and she gets pregant and HIV.

Is it myspaces fault for her being raped? Is it the guys?

No it isnt, its her fault for acting slutty and its her parents fault for not raising her better.

Scenario 2: Girl age 15 makes a myspace, makes it private, users need to know her last name or email to add her and she only adds her friends she knows in REAL LIFE and keeps her pictures decent and nothing happens to her.

Well how about that?!

The girl in scenario one was slutty before she made the myspace, myspace didnt make her slutty. If she hadnt met a guy on myspace it would have been somewhere else.

The girl in scenario 2 is alot like me. Im 18 years old I made my myspace when i was 15 years old, I kept my profile private, I added only my friends, I made it to where if you didnt know my last name or email you couldnt even send me a friend request. Ive had no problems whatsoever. Ive never had a stalker, Ive never had to deal with any creeps and I dont see any of the nasty content people say there is on myspace.

Some people would argue take down myspace because of the perverts or naive slutty girls. Ok say youve taken down myspace, does that eliminate the pervs and the naive slutty girls who feel invincible on the internet, does it eliminate those people? No, they are still out there in the world.

So you may ask what should be done about this?

Hmm omg this is so hard......or not.

Educate your children on:

1.The dangers of the internet.

2.That you are not invincible online.

3.Meeting people online isnt ok.

4.That you shouldnt give out personal info to people you dont know.

5.If you wont say it in person dont say it online.

You need to instill in your children:

1.Morals.

2.Right v. Wrong.

3.Not to be a slut.

4.Common sense.

5.Self-Respect.

Most importantly:

Being BA with a keyboard doesnt make you cool, taking slutty pictures of yourself knowing perverted 50yr old guys are going to jerk off to them is gross and that you arent invicible online but you are actually more vulnerable.

Yeah... for all you those that are against myspace you should really educate yourself on what is really the danger and educate others and do some about the pervs online, help them get caught.

Like I said Im 18 but I look as young as 13, whenever I get a chance Im going to help my local PD with catching online predators.

And remember a predator just isnt a predator online, they dont log off and become normal. They are always preying, at malls, at movie theatres or anywhere, you cant stop your children from doing something because there are danger potientals but you can educate them on how to lessen the chance for danger and what to do if they get in that situation.

Being ignorant on a subject doesnt protect you from it, it does the opposite.

After reading other people comments Id like to add myspace doesnt make people the way they are, they were like that before they had one.

I think outlets such as myspace are good population control for ingnorant people, if your dumb enough to get raped and killed by a stranger you met on Myspace well what were you doing breathing anyways and why in the hell did you parents procreate?

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I dont think kids should be on myspace, there are too many FREAKS out there.

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MySpace is not "too advanced" for under 16yo-s.That 13yo girl had a psychological problem. If not for that boy, she would have committed suicide for something else. It's not MySpace's fault about that. People with psychological problems don't need only MySpace to say "OK, now I found out why would I commit a suicide - here is MySpace". That girl would have committed suicide as soon as she goes to school and one of her schoolmates tells her "You are ugly" or something. Such children haven't been raised from their parents to have high self-esteem and dignity.

About MySpace, my friend (she is 13) has one already 1 year and everything is fine. She keeps in touch with people from other countries and doesn't pay attention to "sex-messages", she even laughs at them. If a 13yo is fine with MySpace and another kills herself, I think the second has a problem in her head, not a probem with MySpace.

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Just NO for kids for any of these social networking sites. WAY too dangerous.