O noes. Life was too hard and emo girl committed suicide? ;(

Too bad. She looked kinda cute.
I'd definitely hit it.
With a:
http://www.air-and-space.com/197508%...0front%20l.jpg

The problem lies in the fact that to many of these people trust online strangers so much that they'll just add these random people without really knowing them. You don't need to have a Ph.D in order to fake being someone else online. Anyone whose dumb enough to just trust someone online so blindly deserves to have crap happen to them to serve as a wake-up call.

I think the problem is that parents assume the world is safer than it actually is.

No, the problem is that parents don't even know or aren't even interested in what their kids are doing anymore.

I actually laughed out loud, for a while.

I don't understand the popularity of myspace. It's boring as hell, and they send you a shitload of spam. Why does anyone use it?

The same reason iPods and Limewire are so popular. So many people use it and think it's great so everyone uses it.

In hopes of finding those idiotic classmates you hated in high school and beat the crap out of them. Or in hopes of finding that their life went to pot.

The more I think about it, the more it is purposeless to even have an account there. I don't keep up with all my friends regularly and they all have my email address. However, the only people I'd want to watch on there is Boom Boom Satellites, mainly because I don't believe it's really them on there.

I haven't found any classmates yet, but I have found old coworkers.

I've always wonder exactly how some people are so bold as to try to meet somebody online in person. Especially if you're young.

You'd simply just think they wouldn't do it. Those internet stalkers really must be hitting the right emotional cords to get some people to trust them that well.

It's not MySpace's fault that kids can be overly trusting. Maybe they are trying to get the attention that their parents don't give them?

It is all about attention. Obviously they don't feel someone/people are paying them enough attention so they're quick to meet total strangers online. Obviously common sense or enough bad stuff hasn't happened to them to dissuade them from this.

nanashiusako, You're insane. Myspace is 100% to blame.

Just because the parents don't spend time with their kids and mistreat them doesn't mean it's the parents fault...;_;

It is all attention. Why else would you announce to the world that you're going to commit suicide? I've heard of some weird stuff on myspace, people cutting themselves and then posting pictures. Thanks, but no thanks.

And yes, I also fail to see the attraction of myspace. It was actually never really popular with the people I hung out with, which is why I never got on it. But if it was, I think I'd be part of it sadly. (Conformist? probably)

I don't think there really is a way to stop it. A lot of kids don't even have friends that they can be open with and share their true feelings with, I understand why they'd try to get some attention on the net.

I know its hard to imagine, but if you don't add every single person who asks you for an add as a friend, then maybe you won't run into that kind of shit.

I dunno, maybe its just me, but common sense can go a long way.

Dark Nation, will you be my friend? Mwahahaha!?!?!?


It all starts like that...

Thank god Gamingforce doesn't call each other and organize meets.

Oh wait.

Gamingforce is the next Myspace =O

I first learned about myspace from the kids at the summer camp I work at. I blocked all access to the site, but mostly because it was wasting time as I didn't think about the danger. I ended up setting up an account of my own when I found some friends I haven't seen in 10 years, and since have found other former classmates.
But I certainly see the dangers. A few of the girl campers found my profile, and sent me friend requests in addition to adding me to their AIM buddy lists. I mean, sure I actually at least know them, but I still feel a beet creepy every time one of them IMs me.

I don't see why a lot of people think they're automatically safe from predators and stuff on sites like that. Like Dark Nation said, you'd think common sense would stop some of these idiots from posting their personal information, like phone numbers and addresses. Hell, I have people I've friends known for six years on AIM that keep trying to give me their phone numbers. The obligatory "don't talk to strangers" plays in my head every time. Maybe we should get together and organize a mass intervention or something.

Because posting something like that up on Myspace is a lot easier than actually calling a friend and confiding in them. INFORM THE MASSES! TRY AND STOP ME!

will you be my friend? http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/8176/cry6pp.gif

if so, I'll need your phone number, address, school, SIN, creditcard info, etc. Because that's what friends do! ...idiots.

edit: not you guys!! those kids!

It seems most of the kids on Myspace have the "It's never gonna happen to me" mentality. One of the three girls they interviewed on that show didn't sound like she was too convinced about the danger she put herself in. I would almost bet Monopoly money that she hasn't already created another Myspace profile and is at it again.