Myspace drama

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It's funny how people are so trusting on Myspace and give out information about themselves. Three teenage girls added this guy named "Matt", aka a police officer, to their friends list. The officer was able to find out all kinds of information on them because they were too trusting concerning Matt.

One of the girls in the interview (I watched this on TV as well) actually said that people should check their profiles everyday. How in the world can you check a profile when you have no clue that the person is even telling the truth?

Did anybody else see or read this? What are your thoughts on this whole Myspace drama?

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People are stupid.

They basically go onto those types of sites and make friends with people who they have no outside knowledge of.

I'll stick to just adding my friend into my myspace that I know offline, thank you very much. I'm not one of those perverts looking to bang some hot girl online.

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I rarely ever go on mine. Most of what I have on there is already common knowledge, like my love for writing and listening to music. Other than that, I don't go around viewing other people's profiles. I only go there when someone I know gives me their URL and then I add them as a friend.

However, recently, I'm considering ditching it. It's basically as pointless as hi5 was.

The lawyer said he was going to try and hold Myspace responsible for some of this as well. However, I don't see how that's possible. How exactly is it Myspace's fault if people are signing on, giving out their personal information and pictures, and then getting assaulted, raped, etc.? Think about it, if it's not Myspace, it'll be something else.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's a generation issue. These kids' parents probably aren't aware of the threat the internet poses to them. It'll probably just go away with the internet becoming more of an established medium. People who have grown up with the internet themselves will teach their children how to use it properly and go by the rules. Not giving out personal information to random people is one such rule.

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Heh, that's so lame. Way to permanantly scar teenagers by forcing their parents to be overprotective on the internet.

I'm sorry, but if you're stupid enough to give up personal information such as your address, school, credit card info, etc, you shouldn't even be using sites like myspace, facebook, friendster or anything alike.

I was speaking idiomatically.

There's a guy who tries to make fun of me (too bad he does it poorly though) for going on message boards like this one.

Yet I hear him talking about constantly going on Myspace.

>_>

I'll just stick to message boards. I don't think I'll be giving out any real personal info anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by splur

Heh, that's so lame. Way to permanantly scar teenagers by forcing their parents to be overprotective on the internet.

I'm sorry, but if you're stupid enough to give up personal information such as your address, school, credit card info, etc, you shouldn't even be using sites like myspace, facebook, friendster or anything alike.

I totally agree with you. The interviewer was talking about how Myspace can be made better, but how can you do that? How do you know if someone is really telling the truth about their birthday? To be honest with you, I don't see how Myspace can make their rules more strict. How can they do that?

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Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

I don't see how Myspace can make their rules more strict. How can they do that?

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Basically Facebook. And facebook isn't even strict enough in the eyes of the "parents of this generation". We're pampering our kids so badly that they don't even know what's right and what's wrong anymore. When did "don't talk to strangers" stop working? My parents told me that once and I never did it. Is it that kids are becoming less logically adapted or are we just teaching them wrong?

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Originally Posted by splur

When did "don't talk to strangers" stop working? My parents told me that once and I never did it.

That's what I was aiming at. I think the internet is just too complex for most parents to teach their children how to use it. Plus, it involves actually spending time with their children.

Instead of telling the kids that giving out personal information is bad, the detective should have told the parents how the internet works.

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Also, Kids have the "It'll never happen to me" or "I know what I'm doing" mindframe.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Myspace drama is bullshit.

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Originally Posted by soniclover

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Hahaha!! Nobody but people older than 18 would be on Myspace, hahaha! Even then, some of them give out way too much information. Some of my friends my age are very guilty of this.

Originally Posted by splur

We're pampering our kids so badly that they don't even know what's right and what's wrong anymore. When did "don't talk to strangers" stop working? My parents told me that once and I never did it. Is it that kids are becoming less logically adapted or are we just teaching them wrong?

Well, I agree with you to some point. It seems that parents now don't seem to know too much about computers and the Internet. They're the same ones that get all upset and wonder why their kids are into stuff like this. However, some parents don't even teach their kids about strangers anymore. It's pretty sad.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Theres talk of "family groups" and "outraged parents" trying to shut down MySpace because of such things. The bitter truth is that parents are shitty and less controlling than ever; why should catty flap-slotted mothers decry something which should be censored at home?

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I agree with you, LeHah. How can they blame Myspace for this when it's the people that are using Myspace that do stuff like this? It's not like Myspace made it mandatory that you have to answer every question and give out all your personal information. The people using Myspace are doing this on their own. If they want to be technical about it, why don't they just block the Internet from their homes and go live in a cave somewhere?

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Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

Nobody but people older than 18 would be on Myspace

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Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

If they want to be technical about it, why don't they just block the Internet from their homes and go live in a cave somewhere?

We live in a society of finger-pointing. No one wants to take responsibility for anything ever, so now we have soccer moms and stay-at-home dads bleeding into their jamrags over the most minor shit ever.

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Originally Posted by Terminus

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Myspace drama is bullshit.

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Not really. There's the issue of faking signatures and whatnot, just like I faked a signature for an absence in high school. It can be done. There's no foolproof way Myspace can do anything to curb giving out personal information. The only thing that can be done about that is if the keyboard shocks the person as they're trying to give out their information. That's the only way I can see it. But then again, they might hack that too.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

This Myspace thing completely passed me by. I never knew about it when I while everyone was chatting it up.

I only recently really found out about it. I still never had the desire to use it though. I consider Gamingforce a nice alternative for a place to share your emotions.

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The only reason why I even went on there is because a few of my friends that I'd been looking for years ago were there. I should delete my account because I really don't care about it. I figure if people really want to find me, they'll look for my email address. Only thing is that my email address isn't directly tied to me.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't have an account on Myspace, and I don't plan on signing up for one. I've seen some of the features when a friend asked me to sign onto her account once, so I'm aware that a person can say that they are 14, and the profile is automatically set to private.

On Facebook, there's a privacy option that enables a user to be taken out of search results completely. I don't know how this works on Myspace, though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

yeah. but there are stalkers everywhere when you're on the internet anyway. A lot of people started using the internet/chatrooms with just the basics of text bbs. All you need is a handle, pass, and private room and that's it. People were skeptical of even giving the basic info because you wouldn't know what's behind the screen of the other user, but that went away as time passed/technology increased. These days, when kids begin using the internet, they're given all sorts of freedom and extra crap that's not even necessary. I guess it makes sense to them so gullible, then again, maybe they're just not a very logical generation.

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Originally Posted by Devo

Myspace profiles can be set to private so only people who are in your friends category can look at it. Of course this isn't a problem of Myspace but people underestimating the capabilities of stalkers.

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.

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