Is it a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers, like a sprawling electronic shopping plaza, or a magnet for sexual predators and pornographers?
MySpace.com is a bit of both, say Rhode Island education officials who have banned the fast-growing teen social networking Web site from 80 percent of their schools out of concern is was putting children at risk.
“There’s a lot of personal information and things like that on MySpace.com — a bit more than I’m comfortable with,” said James Murphy, assistant director of technology for the public schools in Coventry, Rhode Island.
What could have been probably an innocent place for kids to meet has turned almost to be everybody’s nightmare,” said Monique Nelson, executive director of Web Wise Kids, a nonprofit Internet safety organization based in California.
myspace isnt a problem unless the user in myspace is making it a big deal. students having their own page is thier own buisness. i have a myspace and its straight.
I think myspace should be banned for good even though those kids who get on there and are stupid enough to tell ppl info about them, i had a myspace and i was acting like a celeb but i deleted it, i thought it was stupid.. i argued with some guy i mean big time argued but he didnt know any info about me or anything because i was acting like a celeb so thats different~
I THINK MYSPACE SHOULD B IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!!!!!WE LUV MYSPACE AT EMMA SANSOM MIDDLE BUT BECAUSE OF U WE CANT GET ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE LET US ON MYSPACE!!!
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i think we should be able to have myspace at school without it being blocked that sh*t is wack!!! who ever came up with that idea must not have had a good childhood and they want to take it out on us. well guess what GET IT OVER IT !!!
i think we should be able to have myspace at school without it being blocked that sh*t is wack!!! who ever came up with that idea must not have had a good childhood and they want to take it out on us. well guess what GET OVER IT !!!
After conducting some surveys it is proven that around 50 present of the teenagers going to school is California drive to school.
We have to start giving kids some credit i mean when you where a kid if you had myspace would you really go around talking to strangers, giving your phone number or address to anyone who asks. Most teens on myspace have much more common sssense than that especially after all the annoying tv programs and news reports on it they`ve seen by now
I work in a Public High School, and we were recently told that they have made an adendum to our hand book saying that no county employee is allowed to use any social networking website such as myspace and facebook, regardless of student contact or not. Many of us are outraged. Wouldn’t this be an infridgement of our freedom of speech or our right to privacy?
#6 “Its not the schools place to do this, its the parents. I’m sick and tired of rule after rule that”
What are you babbling about? Schools make the rules on how school computers are used. Parents don’t write the usage policies.
#48 “Wouldn’t this be an infridgement[sic] of our freedom of speech or our right to privacy?”
No. At work, using employer facilities they can monitor and block you from sites. Get used to it. I’ve consulted with IT mgmt at K12 & Colleges. Filtering is a very good strategy to both secure and manage computer resources.