{"id":1722,"date":"2006-07-10T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/07\/10\/study_shows_fea.html"},"modified":"2010-07-15T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:15:35","slug":"study_shows_fea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/07\/10\/study_shows_fea.html","title":{"rendered":"Study shows fear of MySpace predators is overblown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Larry Rosen, a psych prof over at Cal State, has just released data on MySpace and predators showing that the fear is completely overblown (duh).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csudh.edu\/psych\/PRESS%20RELEASE%206-26-2006.pdf\">The press release is here.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csudh.edu\/psych\/Adolescents%20in%20MySpace%20-%20Executive%20Summary.pdf\">A longer report is here.<\/a> Some of the findings are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 7% of those teens interviewed were ever approached by anyone with a sexual intent and nearly all of them simply ignored the person and blocked him from their page.\n<li>Two-thirds of the parents were sure that there were many sexual predators on MySpace, while only one-third of the teenagers shared this concern.\n<li>When asked about media coverage, 66% of the parents felt that it was either understated or close to the truth.\n<li>Conversely, 58% of the teens felt it was vastly overblown.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>(Tx <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.northwestern.edu\/gradstudents\/huffaker\/\">David<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Larry Rosen, a psych prof over at Cal State, has just released data on MySpace and predators showing that the fear is completely overblown (duh). The press release is here. A longer report is here. Some of the findings are: Only 7% of those teens interviewed were ever approached by anyone with a sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}