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Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Sam Caldwell — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:22:37 -0000

The problem is not myspace. These crimes could happen (as they did when I was a child) in any public place. The problem we have here is poor education of children. We need to constantly remind children of the dangers associated with talking to strangers. It is imperative that we take responsibility as individuals.

If myspace wants to be proactive, then catch the first time and repeat offenders by (a) creating logs that can be viewed from the profile and a supervisory profile, (b) require any person under age 17 to have their account subordinated to the account of an adult during account creation, where the person authorizing the account can have their age verified through a credit card number or other comparable system, (c) Allow the supervisory account to view all activity of any subordinated account, and (d) Allow the supervisory account to set controls (such as age limits with which the subordinate account can communicate without express approval.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Maverick — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:19:55 -0000

Stupid ass kids. When I was 8 and using the net I knew exactly what information not to give out, but these teens these days are looking for so much attention they will do anything to get it. Fucking retards. Also, it is not myspace's fault, its the fucking parents fault. If you dont want your kids doing stupid shit like that, keep a fucking eye on them you cock suckers.

BAD PARENTS!!!!!!!

I could ride with that statement all day, because its only the truth.

Fucking
Parents
Need
To
Man
The
Fuck
Up
And
Beat
Their
Fucking
Children

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Edwin Porras — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:24:15 -0000

you are right about that it not myspaces fault that teenagers are stupid enough to do that crap!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

caligirl626 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:43:03 -0000

This is definitely a problem. Reread Ronald Lewis' post. At that time, this 18 year old had the "innocent" Playboy bunny as her myspace layout background. http://www.myspace.com/lil_... No worries her family and friends believed. Now, at 19, surprise surprise, she's pregnant. Maybe she planned it that way. Maybe all her other myspace friends she has on there, yes, similar 18-19 year old mothers planned it that way as well. But maybye, just maybe the problem is not Myspace. Perhaps it goes deeper into their family upbringing and education provided to these kids. Myspace is just an outlet, not the cause. Discretion is something you are raised with, and that begins at home.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

KANDY — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:04:48 -0000

YOUNG GRL ACT LIKE ESCORT AND DONT EXPECT TO PUT OUT....AND PARENT..U KNOW YOU CAN BLOCK SITES OFF THE FREAKING COMPUTER OR NOT LET THEM USE ONE AT ALL....AND THOSE KIDS, I KNOW THEY'VE HEARD STORIES ABOUT TEENAGERS MEETING UP WITH STRANGERS AND GETTING RAPED..AND THEY STILL DO IT...HOW DUMB IS THAT..Y BLAME MYSPACE..IT COULD HAVE HAPPEN ON ANY OTHER SITE....MYSPACE IS NOT SUPPOSE TO WATCH EVERYTHING THE TEENAGERS DO...ITS THE PARENT JOB...MYSPACE IS ALSO USED FOR GOOD TO...DONT COPS USED IT TO NAB CHILD MOLESTER AND ETC...ONLY STUPID LITTLE TEENAGERS AND THEIR PARENT ARE TRYING TO TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM A SITE THAT ALSO HELPS GET THE PPL THAT U DUNT WANT NEAR UR TEENAGERS...SO GAY

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

tayy — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:47:04 -0000

ok im just starting off that i think it is both myspaces and the parents fault! yes myspace could prolly make it more safe for underaged kids and parents will say lies saying "yes i watch my kids online activities and they would never do anything like that for attention!

even through i am only 14 i know better then to sell appeal in exchange for attention.and when its too much , they cry victim! Really the average girls myspaces are crazy they look like they are trying out for playboy magazines. how more stupid could you get to in life! im not sayin its only the girls fault but u have to realize the guys must be sick minded and just gross to acually do this!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Jose' — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:04:35 -0000

I both agree and disagree. People should have the right mind not to talk to random people on the web 'today.' Then again, Myspace, I think, should toughen it's standards. Some people are sometimes innocently hurt in some way. That, people, is when it is Myspace's fault. I must agree that Myspace's limits are, right now, very leniant, and flexible. It's very easy to get around it. THAT is Myspace's fault. It's too easy. So, overall, Myspace should bare down.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

watchful mom — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:34:24 -0000

I do agree that these young girls are too promiscuous,and their parents should be monitoring their activities more closely.Under MySpace safety tips, it says that inappropriate content should be reported to the authorities or to MySpace. MySpace should also be monitoring what these kids are posting... I've seen drinking alcohol, middle fingers,and alot of cursing. For you parents that haven't read the safety tips... at the end of the tips, there is a line that reads "Click Here to remove your child's profile from MySpace. Check it out.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

LaLa — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:58:12 -0000

Ithink myspace should be shut down completley its stupid and not safe.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

jenn — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:40:43 -0000

i think its deffinitely all the parents fault. its not there fault that some girls on myspace take pictures wearing absolutely nothing then expect not to get people hitting on them. and its their parents fault that they didnt know that their daughters were going out to meet some random guy they meet online. there daughters should know better then to go out and talk to an absolute stranger. so i think its both the parents and their daughters fault.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Mishi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:06:58 -0000

If you have an open and trusting relationship with your child and were competent to raise children before you had them this would not happen. If you can have open and honest conversations with your child about sex and drugs early they will know the dangers. My mom did and inspite of mostly having internet friends in my teens, and knowing more about the internet and tech than she did, I was never used, molested, or raped. And yes I went with my girlfriends on a road trip to L.A. to meet some internet boys. Because the people I spoke with did not view me as a sex object and had no reason to it was honest clean fun. I'm sorry for your lost Heart in Heaven but are you sure you don't feel a little guilty. You don't seem to be blaming myspace but you are still inappropriately lashing out. If you don't want to be responsible for a child don't have one.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

anonymous — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:02:55 -0000

it's clearly the parents fault u cant just expect ur daughters 2 b perfect n that they don't need 2 be looked after its da girls fault as well dey should've kept the details to themselves guys are so bad these days

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Heart In Heaven — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:57:06 -0000

Kelly!!! You are wrong!! Yes, my child was taught of the dangers of the Internet!! Do you think that teenagers listen to every single thing a parent teaches them?? With the technology today, there are ways to prohibit a 28 year old grown man from having his big creepy face on a 15 year old child's MySpace site. They just need to spend the time and money to implement it!! One would guess that the most critical here on this site don't have children. If you had children then surely you would have a dictionary to assist with fewer instances of the misspelling of words. OK . . .I see you may be only 13. It's not too late to buy a dictionary and USE IT !! People will hear what you write, even when you are WRONG .

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Heart In Heaven — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:39:57 -0000

Joe Lex is an ignorant @#$%^

When I discoved a MySpace account in 2005 that was NOT allowed I took my daughter's computer away for half a year. She used the high school computer to communicate with the creep predator and said all kids could pass the "block". After he used her and tossed her away, she got depressed and killed herself !!! He was 28 and she was 15 !! I worked from my home and was HERE for my kids. I had to sleep JOELEX and my daughter left my eye sight when she went to school. Under my horrible circumstances of loss I would rather be me JOELEX than ignorant YOU !!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

AnDr3A — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:57:30 -0000

Well what i think is that, is not MySpace's problem, little sluts go in myspace and out pics of their nasty body, which some guys might think is "sexy"... It could be the member's fault too, by adding like 10,000 people so people can say, oo they're so popular, i have a myspace, but evrytime someone adds me, they have to know my last name or e-mail... So i don't think myspace should be out.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

andre — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:19:32 -0000

I just hope that if myspace loses, it won't be like the tabacco settlement of the 90's and I don't have to be bombarded with preachy PSA's with self-righteous hippies 24/7

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

julie — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:07:51 -0000

I am not positive yet but I think I know one of these cases. On par, the girl had one of those websites saying come get me, plus she said she was 18. I don't blame her though, she pretty much ran wild because her mother has a drug problem, mom even shared the drugs with the girl. It sounds so bad to say the boy is serving 10 years for sexual assault but in Texas, that means 10 years for age of consent violation. And if it is the same, he didn't meet her on the internet, rather at a neighbors house when she had snuck out to have some fun while mom lay passed out. Then they talked online the next day and off she went again. when mama found her gone, she became major drama queen calling amber alert. FBI solved a big one since he had given her his name, phone number, etc. and only lived a bit on down the road. I do suspect this one is a major scam/

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Shelly — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:16:12 -0000

when i heard of this on the news, i was neither shocked or surprised to hear of something like this happening. Of the young girls' profiles i have seen, i knew it would just be a matter of time. i don't blame the victims or the parents. i believe that young girls of this age group acts primarily from their hormones and not their brains. Alot of young girls will have multiple accounts and they do all their "good" myspacing on it and their "promescuity" on other accounts that parents aren't aware of. the only way to stop it all together is to not let young people use myspace and guess what? That'll never happen. These perps that lurk on myspace is looking for a weak young victim that is an easy target. parents have to educate their young children(the one's that are allowed on myspace) how to conduct and protect themselves from "strangers". But for me personally, there is not enough restrictions on myspace as well as not enough police-ing by web officials and parents to protect these kids from what they see as a harmless cyber hangout. Until the web becomes totally safe, just keep your young and immature kids off the internet!!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

JoeLex — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:03:13 -0000

These people who sue and attempt to sue are worthless people, there is always some scum bag out there trying to sue for something they had control over but apparently are not wise enough to use common sense. But these same people who sue for these things are the same one's who vote and complain they want their freedom of speech and freedom to do what they want, when they want; but it's obvious these incompetents believe everyone else is to blame and that everyone should feel sorry for them.. Too bad !

I blame our countries attorney's and the jury for letting this shit happen.

Furthermore, I actually feel bad for them I would hate to be in their shoes when that 'Day' comes. "What goes around comes around."

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

A FAMILY AFFECTED BY MY SPACE! — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:39:51 -0000

While I agree that PARENTS are responsible to teach their children about the dangers of the internet- I have learned that if they want to do something they will. I recently discovered that my teenage girls had profiles on MY SPACE. They got into some pretty dangerous conversations and gave out WAYYY too much personal info. Parents need to understand how W I D E MY SPACE opens the door to pedophiles and those who use MY SPACE to MANIPULATE teens. Teenagers are extremely vulnerable and predators know that. They gain their trust and thats how young girls are manipulated into running away, cyber sex and abduction. These teens have no way of knowing that they are talking to the people that they think they are talking to. Something needs to be done to insure the safety of our children if they choose to be on MY SPACE-- What that is.... I'm not sure.

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Felicia Williams — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:35:17 -0000

hahahaha yall r unny myspace is COOL!!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Kelly — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:55:02 -0000

This comment go's out to "MERIAH" true that girl I'm 13 and I know that to!! Hello we were taught to not talk to strangers in like kindergarten , the Internet is no different!!

Plus I think the parents just want some extra cash , and I think they found a way to get it!

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Kelly — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:50:33 -0000

HELLO PERANTS !!!!! YOU CAN'T JUST LET YOUR KIDS DO WHAT EVER THEY WANT!!!! THE INTERNET IS NOT A SAFE PLACE, THATS YOUR JOB TO GET INVOLED SO THINGS LIKE THIS CAN BE PREVENTED! I'M SICK THAT THESE THINGS HAPPEND TO SUCH PRESIOUS CHILDREN , BUT LETS TEACH OUR KIDS TO BE CAUSIOUS , CLEARLY THESE KIDS WERE NOT TAUGHT THAT !

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

meriah — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:50:35 -0000

the girls that have something happen to them are the stupid ones because im 16 and smart enough to know you dont talk to creepy old guys on the internet or anyone about sex

Re: MySpace Sued By Parents Who Don’t Keep an Eye on their Kids

Just a Mom — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:35:57 -0000

I'm glad to see so many comprehend that parental neglect is the #1 factor in these situations. But I'm surprised after the Duke Rape case that people still rush to believe claims of horrid sexual assault and predator solicitation when they have no idea of the real facts, or know anything of the people making such claims.

A little common sense might suggest skeptism of parents who think myspace.com should be like a daycare center and is responsible for the trouble their kids find online AND offiline, and not themselves. Skeptism should flare as well when millions of dollars are involved in these law suits.

Just may end up that the true "predators" are the parents, and myspace and some of these boys the true "victims".