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	<title>Comments on: MySpace blamed for alienated youth&#8217;s threats</title>
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		<title>By: Diane</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12121</link>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m honestly so sick of MySpace right now. A lot of people I know that are younger and have a myspace don&#039;t normally think twice about whats featured on their page. Nearly 51% of all discussions taken place on myspace are about sex, drugs, and violence. Teens aren&#039;t really thinking who is viewing, and that person could be just anyone who might be influenced. As a parent, I constantly struggle with the balance of watching out for my kids (when they go online or otherwise). I use internet filter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internettimer.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ez Internet Timer&lt;/a&gt; that allows to control Internet activity for my kids.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m honestly so sick of MySpace right now. A lot of people I know that are younger and have a myspace don&#8217;t normally think twice about whats featured on their page. Nearly 51% of all discussions taken place on myspace are about sex, drugs, and violence. Teens aren&#8217;t really thinking who is viewing, and that person could be just anyone who might be influenced. As a parent, I constantly struggle with the balance of watching out for my kids (when they go online or otherwise). I use internet filter <a href="http://www.internettimer.net" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.internettimer.net?referer=');">Ez Internet Timer</a> that allows to control Internet activity for my kids.</p>
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		<title>By: myspace</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12120</link>
		<dc:creator>myspace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am sure nothing whould happen about any threats by teens on myspace i am sure it was just to scare someone a little for revenge i am sure from something.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sure nothing whould happen about any threats by teens on myspace i am sure it was just to scare someone a little for revenge i am sure from something.</p>
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		<title>By: Lauren</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12119</link>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yahh thats purtty gay!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yahh thats purtty gay!</p>
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		<title>By: Delaney</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12118</link>
		<dc:creator>Delaney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You want to know why kids are addicted to Myspace? It gives them the attention they don&#039;t get. I&#039;m not saying poor me, aw, I&#039;m such an emotional teenager. I&#039;m just saying that parents these days don&#039;t give their kids the confidence sooooooooo essential to survive todays society. We&#039;ve seen how corrupt it is today, and how else are we to deal with it, but post our queries, and maybe&lt;i&gt;hopefully&lt;/i&gt; get some advice on how to handle our situation. So. Do what you like.. delete their Myspace or monitor as much as you can because you know, I agree. But they wouldn&#039;t be doing that stuff in the first place if you had just given them some self-esteem.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You want to know why kids are addicted to Myspace? It gives them the attention they don&#8217;t get. I&#8217;m not saying poor me, aw, I&#8217;m such an emotional teenager. I&#8217;m just saying that parents these days don&#8217;t give their kids the confidence sooooooooo essential to survive todays society. We&#8217;ve seen how corrupt it is today, and how else are we to deal with it, but post our queries, and maybe<i>hopefully</i> get some advice on how to handle our situation. So. Do what you like.. delete their Myspace or monitor as much as you can because you know, I agree. But they wouldn&#8217;t be doing that stuff in the first place if you had just given them some self-esteem.</p>
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		<title>By: Delaney</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12117</link>
		<dc:creator>Delaney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I deleted my myspace. I didn&#039;t have to go through the trouble with the emails, but I did go through the withdrawals. See. Myspace is addictive. What&#039;s addicting is the way it allows the younger generation to express themselves when otherwise, they really aren&#039;t able to. By maybe listening to our younger generation [[ of which the inability to do so has been shown in previous posts I.E. the school blaming myspace for the two boys and their charade ]] we could all prevent such acts of reaching out, such as Myspace bulletins or half-naked minor aged girls taking provocative pictures of themselves to get that one commment.. that one that gives them that attention for that one second. It just takes an adult to sit their kid down and give them some confidence. Let your insecurities aside and let your child know they&#039;re worth it, and that they don&#039;t need that. Someone very special to me helped me with this very subject, and here I am.. Myspace free and 234556 IQ points higher.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I deleted my myspace. I didn&#8217;t have to go through the trouble with the emails, but I did go through the withdrawals. See. Myspace is addictive. What&#8217;s addicting is the way it allows the younger generation to express themselves when otherwise, they really aren&#8217;t able to. By maybe listening to our younger generation [[ of which the inability to do so has been shown in previous posts I.E. the school blaming myspace for the two boys and their charade ]] we could all prevent such acts of reaching out, such as Myspace bulletins or half-naked minor aged girls taking provocative pictures of themselves to get that one commment.. that one that gives them that attention for that one second. It just takes an adult to sit their kid down and give them some confidence. Let your insecurities aside and let your child know they&#8217;re worth it, and that they don&#8217;t need that. Someone very special to me helped me with this very subject, and here I am.. Myspace free and 234556 IQ points higher.</p>
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		<title>By: Jake</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12116</link>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Myspace is total bullshit. I have a word of advice for the people above trying to get their accounts deleted.


I tried for days on end to get myspace to take my account down. As silly as it may sound it became almost like an obsession. I decided I wanted it gone but, just like the guy above, they would not remove it.


I repeatedly followed the instructions on the myspace site to remove the account myself. Each time it told me an email would be sent out, and that I had to follow the instructions in that email to follow through.


Just like William, the email was never sent. I can not even remember how many times I went through this proceedure, Basically every time I checked to see if the account was still active I would send another deletion request. I never got a single confirmation email and the account still stood.


I sent numerous requests to myspace to have them delete the account for me and nobody ever got back to me. At this point I actually became somewhat obsessed with having the damn thing down.


I went throught this for about five days.


Today I came up with a plan. I visited a website and downloaded five pornographic images. one hardcore and the other four nudes. I posted them on the page, with the hardcore image as my profile image, and changed my name to &quot;MYSPACE SUCK MY @@@@&quot;


An hour later my account was deleted.


Thats just ridiculous. That is what it took to have my page deleted. Half naked underage girls = ok. Copywritten porno not so ok.


Concerned parents are not a priority on myspace. Removing copywritten material, in this case porn, is.


Myspace should burn in hell.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Myspace is total bullshit. I have a word of advice for the people above trying to get their accounts deleted.</p>
<p>I tried for days on end to get myspace to take my account down. As silly as it may sound it became almost like an obsession. I decided I wanted it gone but, just like the guy above, they would not remove it.</p>
<p>I repeatedly followed the instructions on the myspace site to remove the account myself. Each time it told me an email would be sent out, and that I had to follow the instructions in that email to follow through.</p>
<p>Just like William, the email was never sent. I can not even remember how many times I went through this proceedure, Basically every time I checked to see if the account was still active I would send another deletion request. I never got a single confirmation email and the account still stood.</p>
<p>I sent numerous requests to myspace to have them delete the account for me and nobody ever got back to me. At this point I actually became somewhat obsessed with having the damn thing down.</p>
<p>I went throught this for about five days.</p>
<p>Today I came up with a plan. I visited a website and downloaded five pornographic images. one hardcore and the other four nudes. I posted them on the page, with the hardcore image as my profile image, and changed my name to &#8220;MYSPACE SUCK MY @@@@&#8221;</p>
<p>An hour later my account was deleted.</p>
<p>Thats just ridiculous. That is what it took to have my page deleted. Half naked underage girls = ok. Copywritten porno not so ok.</p>
<p>Concerned parents are not a priority on myspace. Removing copywritten material, in this case porn, is.</p>
<p>Myspace should burn in hell.</p>
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		<title>By: William</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12115</link>
		<dc:creator>William</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In response to netwoman.


Your comments are the epitome of ignorance. You obviously do not have children, or you have no compassion. Perhaps it is a combination of the two.


What, exactly, is so &quot;warped&quot; about fariza&#039;s point of view? I do not recall her suggesting that it was the job of myspace to monitor her children nor do I recall her suggesting that everyone who uses myspace is abusing it.


It seems to me she is concerned about her children&#039;s activities on myspace and is taking action to counter them but is receiving absolutely no help from myspace. Regardless of what you may think it is the legal obligation of myspace to remove profiles of children under the age of 14. It is also their legal obligation to remove profiles of minors when requested by parents. Do you really find something to be so wrong with that?


For Christ&#039;s sake she is not asking myspace to shut down. She is concerned about her children&#039;s use or abuse and is simply asking them to remove the profiles.


My son is abusing myspace. I have been trying for days to have his profile removed and am getting absolutely no help. He has given me his account password and I have followed the instructions to manually delete the account. Each time I am told that I will receive a confirmation email and to follow the instructions from there. I have done this at-least seven times and this confirmation email simply does not come.


I have sent at-least four emails requesting myspace to delete the account on their side and still have not received a response. The only response I did receive was an automated reply instructing me how to delete the account myself. The same thing I have already tried SEVEN TIMES.


You are very quick to point out that it is not the job of myspace to monitor children, but what happens when perhaps previously naive parents decide that myspace is not for their kids yet myspace refuses to delete the accounts?


What then?


Again, I don&#039;t think anyone is suggesting what you have said, only that myspace should be more forthcoming in assisting parents that are concerned.


Why you are so threatened by that concept I have no idea, perhaps you are one of the slutty girls who measure their self worth by the size of their myspace friends list?




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In response to netwoman.</p>
<p>Your comments are the epitome of ignorance. You obviously do not have children, or you have no compassion. Perhaps it is a combination of the two.</p>
<p>What, exactly, is so &#8220;warped&#8221; about fariza&#8217;s point of view? I do not recall her suggesting that it was the job of myspace to monitor her children nor do I recall her suggesting that everyone who uses myspace is abusing it.</p>
<p>It seems to me she is concerned about her children&#8217;s activities on myspace and is taking action to counter them but is receiving absolutely no help from myspace. Regardless of what you may think it is the legal obligation of myspace to remove profiles of children under the age of 14. It is also their legal obligation to remove profiles of minors when requested by parents. Do you really find something to be so wrong with that?</p>
<p>For Christ&#8217;s sake she is not asking myspace to shut down. She is concerned about her children&#8217;s use or abuse and is simply asking them to remove the profiles.</p>
<p>My son is abusing myspace. I have been trying for days to have his profile removed and am getting absolutely no help. He has given me his account password and I have followed the instructions to manually delete the account. Each time I am told that I will receive a confirmation email and to follow the instructions from there. I have done this at-least seven times and this confirmation email simply does not come.</p>
<p>I have sent at-least four emails requesting myspace to delete the account on their side and still have not received a response. The only response I did receive was an automated reply instructing me how to delete the account myself. The same thing I have already tried SEVEN TIMES.</p>
<p>You are very quick to point out that it is not the job of myspace to monitor children, but what happens when perhaps previously naive parents decide that myspace is not for their kids yet myspace refuses to delete the accounts?</p>
<p>What then?</p>
<p>Again, I don&#8217;t think anyone is suggesting what you have said, only that myspace should be more forthcoming in assisting parents that are concerned.</p>
<p>Why you are so threatened by that concept I have no idea, perhaps you are one of the slutty girls who measure their self worth by the size of their myspace friends list?</p>
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		<title>By: Jabbadaddy</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12114</link>
		<dc:creator>Jabbadaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 10:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a 14 year old daughter who is on My Space. Much to her dismay, I monitor her site and use. I&#039;m afraid I&#039;m addicted to being a good parent and attempting to protect my child in a world gone crazy with too much too soon. I could prohibit her from joining, but would that do any real good? She might just be tempted to join and use a new ID that I don&#039;t know about.
Therein lies the problem. It should be absolutely mandatory that a credit card be used to sign up for My Space or ANY other Web Site and a charge levied that will show up on the CC statement. I really don&#039;t care if it is $1 and is refunded later. This would make sure that (1) Parents are aware that their children have signed up and are using the site. (2) Allow the establishment of age verification.
The minimum age preferably should be 18 or over, but I might see my way to perhaps 16 (with parents knowlege and permission)as a minimum.
If this site persists in being what it is and run as it is, if there continues to be abuse, molestation,preditors of younger more naive kids threats, x rated content and even connection to murder (Pennsylvania case recently). I am relatively sure there will be very vigorous action taken to impose restrictions.
The site should be responsible and institute the needed changes and usage parameters on their own.
In short, My Site needs to CLEAN UP IT&#039;S ACT Now!




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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a 14 year old daughter who is on My Space. Much to her dismay, I monitor her site and use. I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m addicted to being a good parent and attempting to protect my child in a world gone crazy with too much too soon. I could prohibit her from joining, but would that do any real good? She might just be tempted to join and use a new ID that I don&#8217;t know about.<br />
Therein lies the problem. It should be absolutely mandatory that a credit card be used to sign up for My Space or ANY other Web Site and a charge levied that will show up on the CC statement. I really don&#8217;t care if it is $1 and is refunded later. This would make sure that (1) Parents are aware that their children have signed up and are using the site. (2) Allow the establishment of age verification.<br />
The minimum age preferably should be 18 or over, but I might see my way to perhaps 16 (with parents knowlege and permission)as a minimum.<br />
If this site persists in being what it is and run as it is, if there continues to be abuse, molestation,preditors of younger more naive kids threats, x rated content and even connection to murder (Pennsylvania case recently). I am relatively sure there will be very vigorous action taken to impose restrictions.<br />
The site should be responsible and institute the needed changes and usage parameters on their own.<br />
In short, My Site needs to CLEAN UP IT&#8217;S ACT Now!</p>
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		<title>By: MySpace = idiots</title>
		<link>http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/10/myspace_blamed.html/comment-page-1#comment-12113</link>
		<dc:creator>MySpace = idiots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well those kids are idiots for posting that kind of stuff on the internet.I mean seriously how dumb do you have to be. IF your going to make threats like that someone is going to believe it and get you in major trouble. MySpace is a cult and all who use it are pathetic.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well those kids are idiots for posting that kind of stuff on the internet.I mean seriously how dumb do you have to be. IF your going to make threats like that someone is going to believe it and get you in major trouble. MySpace is a cult and all who use it are pathetic.</p>
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		<title>By: katie</title>
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		<dc:creator>katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rather in response to lori ann. i apologize.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rather in response to lori ann. i apologize.</p>
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