Re: myspace.com/to parents

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Hi Casey,

I think that's a great post you wrote and if I may I'd

like to add something to that as well.

I joined to talk to my friends, I have no desire to

add people I don't know. I have a good head on my

shoulders plus I am 26 so I am not exactly the prime

target for many pervs out there (did have this one

older man tell me I was his dream and he'd move by me,

I told him exactly where he could take his dream).

However, I have seen a few teen lp girls on myspace

who are dressed very provocative, I e-mailed one of

them just to let them know the image they are putting

out there and who they attract. Her attitude was

basically " ya I can handle myself " , no teen girl goes

out looking to get hurt but it happens. Unfortunately

dressing like one has no self-respect is in vogue but

there is a real danger out there.

To all of you parents out there, the predator isn't

necessarily the stranger in a car anymore, it's the

stranger on the net who tells your daughter EXACTLY

what she wants to hear. Parents, please get a clue

when it comes to the internet! Ask to see what sites

they are on, go check out their myspace profiles AND

pictures, keep your computer where you can walk by and

see it. My younger cousin is on myspace and I've had a

few talks with her and told her the danger of putting

her city on there plus what high school she goes to. I

told her that her friends already knew that info.

I feel bad for that teen girl I mentioned before, I

feel bad because she doesn't get it, to her she has

her whole life to live and it's all good, she is also

sending out a bad image of herself. I feel bad for her

because her parents are very clueless. I was a teen

girl once who also thought nothing bad would happen to

me and that I knew everything. Now being older I

realized I didn't know jack. I sometimes think teens

need MORE input and guidance from their parents than

when they were kids. The net isn't a right for teens,

it's a priviledge. Parent's please wise up!

" We've seen, across the country, people we consider

internet predators using Myspace and other accounts

like that to try and find and locate kids and groom

the kids into a relationship,” said FBI agent

Kiernan. "

" One law enforcement officials calls the teen chat

rooms " meat markets, " for the young. "

" And some of the websites by Utah teens appear

provocative. Experts say the language and photos young

girls are posting on their website is an invitation

for disaster. "

Taken from:

www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=8E103D0B-3CF1-4DCF\

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