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augh! i'm am all for accountability on internet companies who do not have safeguards to protect children. however, who is suing or prosecuting her parents? unmonitored internet usage in children's hands are like unsecured guns in the home.

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I wonder the same thing, jennie! Not just in the cases with MySpace, but a number of things where unmonitored and undisciplined kids get into or cause trouble. Aren't parents who endanger their kids supposed to get in trouble? Yes, there would be a lot of parents in trouble, but if they deserve it, they should get it!

I'm not trying to be nitpicky, but men don't have sex with women to say, "Hi!" These men don't care about hi or introductions...your name doesn't matter to them...they just want to have sex.

I briefly looked at a popular MySpace layouts site today, and it had a section where users could add their MySpace site to a "train." I scanned the first page, and while most of the sexy pics were by adults (18 or over), there were minors with inappropriate pics or text. That's no surprise, nor anything new--you can easily find these sites with a MySpace search--but I still feel compelled to look and shake my head. For that matter, on this site, and it could be a popular Internet terminology, using graphics, links, or other things to get people to add you as a friend, people call it "***** Me." While I'm fine with adults using the term, I wouldn't want my kid to have images or text that request that, rather than "Add Me" or "Let's Be Friends," or something like that.

I might consider letting my child have a MySpace site, but I'd only allow him or her to work on it in my presence, and I'd know everything posted and said on it. But I don't blame anyone who wouldn't allow it, period. I know a parent who won't let her child on the Internet at all. I'm not against that, but don't schools often require kids to research things on the Net these days? I might be wrong on that, but I thought I'd heard that somewhere. I have heard that kids pretty much need computers these days for schoolwork.

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Anyway, here are a couple of articles that might be of interest to people here.

Sex Offender Law Puts Nearly Everywhere Off Limits
MySpace Runaway Wants to Marry Man She Met Online