U.S. SNS "MySpace.com", finally prohibiting access from schools

Because, MySpace.com is a virtual hangout state of young people, it seems to be because it is virtually an attractive place for sex offenders. As a result, MySpace.com said that it is "a place of nightmare" for parents who have a child's age.

Details are as follows.
Schools cracking down on teen Web site MySpace | Reuters.com
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-03-01T010911Z_01_N28170656_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-MYSPACE.xml

According to the education officer, about 80% (about 130,000 students) of the 36 school districts in charge filter and prohibit the use of MySpace.com because it risks the children And that.

In the first place MySpace.com has many personal information and similar things, and in fact it seems that in the United States, sex offenders actually used MySpace.com to target young people. The current number of MySpace.com users is a huge number of 56 million people. Because it is a type of SNS that makes a lot of friends rather than SNS which invites friends to snugly, it has functions such as searching for friends, various functions expressing their opinions and thoughts, features such as profiles, blogs, web journals Also fulfilling. You will say that you will sing about your favorite singer and school, type of preference and detailed information to become more intimate.

As a case, in February of this year a 26-year-old man was arrested on Santa Cruz, California for sexual intercourse to a 14-year-old girl. This was the encouragement of MySpace.com encounter.

And at MySpace.com I am writing my birthday so that I can not use it unless it is 14 years old and over, but it is still unknown how much effect it is.

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