MySpace Blamed???!

Dapper Dan

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I swear people are mindless morons. Too stOOpid to do the right thing so they blame someone or something else to make themselves look victim...puke gag hoark. gimme a break
Anybody happen to catch Nightline last night on ABC? In case you didn't, one of the hot topics discussed was MySpace. It is no secret to anyone who reads the newspaper or watches the 6 o'clock news that MySpace has been in the limelight because of "sexual predators" trying to "abduct and corrupt" the youth of the world. To this I say bullshit! I see dozens of profiles a day showing 14 year old girls dressed like sluts, wearing four inches of make up and 32 layers of eyeliner, displaying their age as 18 years old and profile lines stating "Oh, I'm So Sexy" or "Hey There, Wanna Check Up On It?" Come on! The youth of today's world are already corrupt enough due to the undying need to be "older" than they really are. I seriously doubt there are tons of people on MySpace stalking "innocent young girls" who just happen to have tramped up profiles and ages 4 years greater than their own.
On Nightline, there was a story of a 12 year old girl who was a drug-addict and attributed it all to MySpace. She claims that Myspace allowed her to easily find drug dealers in her area, as well as older men to have sex with her. Now, at the age of 14, she has been checked into a drug-rehabilitation clinic and has been away from her family for 5 months. Her parents would rather place the blame squarely on the shoulders of MySpace instead of their daughter, who even admitted that at the age of 12, had already tried weed, crack, X, and had slept with numerous guys older than herself...but of course, it wasn't her fault, it was all because of MySpace.
Once again, COME ON! When are parents and children going to stop passing the blame and grow up enough to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their children.. Parent's, monitor your children online, take some responsibility for YOUR children. Children, if a profile name sounds like something that comes out of a cheap horror movie, like "DARK ANGEL OF DEATH WHO EATS THE BRAINS OF GIRLS" or "DARK_POPE""...chances are you DO NOT WANT TO ADD THEM AS A FRIEND. Apparently there is new legislation in Congress now to block MySpace in all public schools and public libraries across the United States. All because little girls want to act grown and don't want to accept the consequences and parents don't want to accept the fact that their "innocent little girls" are posing as 18 year old crack whores trying to buy drugs.
Eventually, if this continues, MySpace could be totally outlawed from the Internet. Restrictions will be put in place in order to make MySpace "safer". I don't know about you, but I use MySpace to keep in touch with my family and friends, use it for messages, and just to have a space that is my own. Just because some children want to act grown, does that mean I may have to eventually give up my MySpace?
A 14 year old girl, and her mother have filed a law suit against Myspace.com(what?) because she was sexually assaulted by another user. She said he lied by saying he was on the high School football team, and THAT gained her trust. Obvisiously if thats all it took to gain her trust, she easily trusts pretty much anybody and anyone. She's suing Myspace.com for $30 million because she believes myspace has poor security. WHAT A CROC! Myspace is not a babysitting service, take responsiblity for your own actions!!! What happened to her is a terrible thing and should never happen to anyone period. Where were her parents? Why are they not held responsible for what their daughter does in thier own home? Myspace has many many ways of blocking out/screening people, some are: you have to ACCEPT the person you may or may not know as well as deny people you do or do not know, you can have certain sercurity measures added like asking for last name and email address, you can block a person, you can only associate with people you ALREADY know or simply you can NOT be on MySpace if you lack common sense.
 
I completely agree with everything you're saying. I joined MySpace to keep in touch with my friends back home. And by browsing around on it i've seen the numerous sluty profiles that these girls have been putting up. So for those girls to ruin it for everyone else because their parents don't know how to put parental controls up or monitor their kids internet access is ridiculous. I've heard so many storys about MySpace on the local news and nationally, and how it's such a horrible site. Honestly I find it fun and addicting. People only make it out to be as bad as they want it to be because they do want to place blame somewhere. Two years ago it was he interactive site, Xanga. Now it's MySpace. It's stupid already.
 
Persephone said:
I completely agree with everything you're saying. I joined MySpace to keep in touch with my friends back home. And by browsing around on it i've seen the numerous sluty profiles that these girls have been putting up. So for those girls to ruin it for everyone else because their parents don't know how to put parental controls up or monitor their kids internet access is ridiculous. I've heard so many storys about MySpace on the local news and nationally, and how it's such a horrible site. Honestly I find it fun and addicting. People only make it out to be as bad as they want it to be because they do want to place blame somewhere. Two years ago it was he interactive site, Xanga. Now it's MySpace. It's stupid already.

Ditto to Sam and Dan. I'm also on myspace, and although I barely write blogs, I have caught some skanky profiles. But, whose to really say if there are sexual predators there? There could be, but we also have some slags as well. :D
 
It always creeps me out when I get friend requests from teenage girls who dress like they're ready to be passed around by the football team like a party favor. <shudders>

Myspace is what you make of it. I personally use it to keep in touch with friends and to write the occassional vent blog.
 
It's just like Dan said: It's easier to blame a third party than yourself or sibling for their actions. I personally think that these girls would never dream of acting like this in real-life so they think that setting up a profile that is aimed at "Bwad-Bwoys" means that they are "cool". Of course when said "Bwad-Bwoys" do what they do and they don't like it they go running off, having bitten off more of the real-world than they can chew. And from there it is easier for parents to believe that their "precious little girl" has been led astray rather than the truth of them going looking for it.
 
I agree myspace isn't to be blamed. I feel that anyone stupid enough to give out their last name, home address and/or phone number to someone who's shady/they just met deserves everything that's coming to them. It's darwinism, people. Get the stupid people out of society.

Kids have been told time and again not to give out their address/contact information and to not give out their real name. If you're too stupid to figure out *why* you're not supposed to give all that out on the net then you shouldn't be on the 'net in the first place.

For me, personally, I've been on the 'net since I was 14. I've made alot of friends on it. I've never once met a sexual predator, although I frequented sex chats in the beginning of my 'net career (I was too naive to truly *understand* what was going on in there, though I never traded any contact info with anyone except email addys with one person who never emailed me back). I only did this for the first couple of weeks I had the 'net, and then I discovered Safe Searching, and spent all my online time there. I only started trading contact information and using it when I got onto Charmed-boards. In fact, most of my friends are from charmed-boards, or are people my friends from CB know.

I've given out my last name and address to six people, and not once have I gotten anything threatening in the mail from them, or stalked by them. I waited until I knew these people for about 3 years before giving them my address (we traded addresses either to send gifts, write snail mail, or send holiday cards).

I place intellect at a high value, and even when I was 14 and naive, I *knew* exactly *why* you aren't supposed to give out your address. And if some people don't get this is the real deal from being warned at school about sexual predators, hearing about it on the news, or seeing the extra security warnings/security add-ons, then they're too stupid to be in this soceity, and the only way they're going to learn is to be abused by someone online. No one else is going to be able to convince them that this *is* the real deal, that if you give out your address to someone you met 20 minutes ago, bad things shall happen.
 
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