myspace… not so much your space anymore…
Because its not only open to just your friends…
I signed up for myspace a few years ago as a way to learn about music.. The times have changed…
A week ago I cancelled my account for many reasons. One most is a waste of time for me. I would rather "connect" with people in person vs. comments and myspace messages. Secondly, Myspace is getting a bit shady. I have seen many news stories about the presence of sexual predators, schools and businesses using myspace as an additional background check, and many other things I consider wrong and don't want to be a part of…
Quite a few of my youth group friends found me on there, I thought it would be a great easy way to communicate what we had planned for the week, quick hellos and such. Which it was until I started to realize the content people put on their pages. I don't need to get into it, but its enough to make me very uncomfortable being a part of it. Another reason is that about 1/3 of my friends were my youth group friends and should somebody come across my page, they may take the reason i have 40+ HS friends on there out of context.
Mark Cuban wrote a great post about his addition to IceRocket.com to help parents track whats going on in MySpace… the space their kids are in.
I heard a story recently of a student who was expelled from school for some "extra curricular" activities that happened at school afterhours on a weekend. Photos were taken and posted on somebody's profile on one of the social networking sites such as myspace.com or facebook.com. The photos are public, perhaps the students forgot that, but served as proof to what happened and was enough to get the student expelled.
I end with a quote from a detective who was on the Dateline I saw.
"As a parent, I dont think I could hire a private investigator to get me more information than these kids are giving away on their pages"
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