Sunday, February 19, 2006

MySpace becomes target for sex offenders

It looks like MySpace may be becoming a target for sex offenders aiming at teenagers, thanks to an article in Reuters today.

And now there are 56 million users on MySpace, most of which are young. This raises an interesting dilemma for parents. Sites such as MySpace allow people to store and share an unprecedented amount of information that could assist offenders to more easily target their members.

Should MySpace police and vet members harder? I think they may have to given the current negative madia this issue is attracting.

If not, parents may police by banning their kids from using such sites. Of course it need not be said that as usual the greatest shame is that such offenders exist in the first place. But they do.

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