Yet another reason to keep your kids off myspace

Indiana man tries to take Michigan girl after meeting on myspace

 

Every time I see a story about myspace's commitment to keeping kids safe, I want to throw up.

If they're serious about protecting minors, they'd require a valid credit card for registration.

 

When I read that one graf in the story about how there are guidelines in place to protect minors, I just rolled my eyes.

 

21, as shitty as this gets at times, I don't see how a credit card for registration would help.

 

Most 13 year olds don't have credit cards.

I just have a hard time blaming the parents for this---the mother in the story says her kid got so good at sneaking onto the internet, they finally disconnected the whole thing, including cable TV.

So they go to their friends' houses, and do it there.

What makes me nuts are my idiot friends who go for the 'it must be ok, everyone else is doing it' deal....and have no idea how to get around the internet. I'm convinced that parents have to be the greatest hackers in the world---there should be a class on this.

 

That's the problem though. Even if you block that site on your home computer, a teen can go to their friends' house, a library, etc, etc.

 

Or another good reason not to have kids.

 

I would really like MySpace to spell out its stricy policy to enure that kids under 14 don't use the site.

 

Can't some computer geek hack into that site and fuck it up beyond usability?

 

A little late for me, the father of six...

 

You can have kids. Amish kids.

 

To me, this goes far beyond MySpace and it's lack of security for minors.
A 13-year-old who does this obviously has problems that are being ignored at home. This is first and foremost a parental issue, as is the behavior of virtually all kids this age.