Scott Granneman, 2006-06-30
Scott Granneman looks at the mass hysteria surrounding MySpace social security issues, examines a collection of frightening reports, and then discusses the real issue of parenting and parental supervision behind keeping our children safe.
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-04
Kevin Farnham
Kevin Farnham
My wife and I wrote a book "MySpace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens and Parents" that has as its primary goal the education of parents (so that they can understand what social networking is, why it's important to their teens, why prohibiting it solves nothing) so they can speak with calm reason to their t...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-04
Tom at clearwood.co.uk (1 replies)
Tom at clearwood.co.uk (1 replies)
You're absolutely right, Scott, and I think it's worth emphasising the positive side of these social web sites too. My daughter's have richer social lives than I ever did as a teen, they communicate intensively using the 'net, as well as their own phones, and they are more mature and streetwise beca...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-10
marco
marco
The great challenge of parenting for me has been the need to balance the safety of my children with the need to teach them the benefits of intelligent risk taking. Frankly, I don't think I'm that good at it myself, and that's not a knock on my parents, they certainly did their best. What scares us, ...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-12
Anonymous
Anonymous
The title says it all! A place without parents. Assuming for the moment that your statement later in the article "that parents worry" is true the preceding statement about parents not allowing the listed activities is not so universally true. As your example illustrates and the statistic support the...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-24
Anonymous
Anonymous
Thank you for this truth-telling article! I'm a fan of MySpace, and have had it since it's first year. All the bad publicity it gets with teenagers is partly attributed to what goes on at home, and how parents are effectively monitoring their child's daily activities. There are a lot of factors, ...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-28
Anonymous (3 replies)
Anonymous (3 replies)
How about this for a brilliant idea, check your child's computer activity. In our house it is a rule, you can have a myspace but I check it and have full access. I check her email too. you would be surprised how many intelligent, caring parents don't even think of doing this!...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-05-04
Cat
Cat
Seriously, you do that? I guess it's awesome that you are that involved with your kid and really care about her safety and outside influences. A lot depends on how old your child is and how mature she is for her age. I don?t honestly have any real insight on any of these facts but I?ll just say- tha...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-12-03
Anonymous
Anonymous
While I agree with checking emails, and myspace profiles and having access...I do, too. However, not all parents are even aware that their children are doing this. The single mom working two jobs so she can support her kids is simply not available to oversee every moment...life gets tough. I'm gl...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-07-29
Anonymous
Anonymous
Not the best example in the world--getting a teen to do homework falls somewhere under the heading of "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. You can also lead a youth to knowledge, but you can't make them think. I can't for the life of me force my now 15 year old son to do his...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-08-05
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
There are sexual predators, pedophiles, murderers, bullies, tramps, sharpies, and frauds everywhere you go...people have been raping kids, kidnapping kids, going off with strangers, killing people, stealing identities long before computers were even invented! I mean, come on...you can't blame this o...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-12-03
Anonymous
Anonymous
Oh, please, I'm so tired of people blaming parents for everything. This is a business that publicly states that they are trying to enforce security, but yet their efforts continually prove to be inadequate. If I purchase any product from a vendor, and their support and warranties are inadequate, I...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2006-10-31
insanecatlady@hotmail.com
insanecatlady@hotmail.com
I'm a myspace member, my daughter is a member and we keep an eye on each others space and our friends. We use the bulletin board to advise our friends of good things and to alert them against possible dangers to their computers and themselves. We look after and care for each other. ...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-02-09
I.M. Parenting
I.M. Parenting
This is an excellent article. However, it still does not address the fact that there is no verification of age required to post an account on my space. While I applaud Scott Granneman for his analyses of the situation, his findings do not address the lack of support for parents who ARE trying desp...
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No one Cares!!!!!!!!!!
2007-02-13
Anonymous
Anonymous
MySpace isn't the bad place!!!! It is the people on there that make it look so bad!! I mean come on Kids shouldn't be stupid enough to give out personal information...........don't parents teach their kids better! Its you stupid adults who take things out of proportion. Why dont you parents make you...
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MySpace, BadPlace
2007-05-16
Anonymous
Anonymous
I used to have a myspace. I didn't tell my parents, yeah, I am a minor and yes, my parents did find out. I made a NEW one and they found that one out also. What could I say? I WAS ADDICTED! I made one last one. They didn't find out.
When I was flipping through the channels on TV, I noticed a p...
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When I was flipping through the channels on TV, I noticed a p...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-07-22
Anonymous
Anonymous
what do you think happens on the streets?? nothing. myspace is just fine its not there fault.
those kids are stupid for contacting people who they dont even know!!
yall just hate that this is part of our generation.
get over it.
we didnet create LSD and X and all of the drugs yall did.
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those kids are stupid for contacting people who they dont even know!!
yall just hate that this is part of our generation.
get over it.
we didnet create LSD and X and all of the drugs yall did.
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-08-07
Anonymous
Anonymous
first off, i am a minor & i have a myspace account & my parents know- they're perfectally fine with it. ok, so the people who give their information out to perfect strangers are complete ignorants and should be completally restrained from accessing any website at all. myspace is not the problem, the...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-10-11
shane e porter (1 replies)
shane e porter (1 replies)
What always seam to me to be the answer for liberals, kids and for sure creeps they all hide behind their freedom of speech! What do I mean, kids, children under the age of 18 cannot vote, they cannot drink they cannot, have sex with an adult for one good reason they for the most part are not bright...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-12-03
Beth T (1 replies)
Beth T (1 replies)
MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-11-15
loveintheair
loveintheair
Me personally do not think that myspace is a bad site for teenagers. They get to meet new people. Most of the teenagers that are sexually abused on this website brings it on themselve, they will lie about their age or talk about things that doesn't need to be associated with people you do not know. ...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2007-12-03
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
I have many issues re: Mr. Granneman's article re: MySpace, however, I do have to publicly respond to one statement in particular.
Mr. Granneman writes that: "There is no way for MySpace to verify a user's age, so we're right back to the specter of a predator claiming to be 14 so that he can mo...
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Mr. Granneman writes that: "There is no way for MySpace to verify a user's age, so we're right back to the specter of a predator claiming to be 14 so that he can mo...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2008-01-13
g-ma Karen
g-ma Karen
Although I believe My Space bears some responsibility, I think you are way off base. If some people would parent instead of just having babies and letting those babies do what they want, there probably wouldn't be as many problems as there are. Instead we have let the gov't. step in and tell us ther...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2008-05-10
Bruce
Bruce
AMEN Brother thats says it all right there " The fact is, every new technology has been used by people to perform, or enable, illicit and illegal acts. MySpace, and the Internet in general, simply expands the ability of people to communicate easily over distance more than any other tool that humanit...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2008-05-17
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
how do i cancel my sons account without knowing his e-mail or password he is 15 and his friend wanted to sell him pot pipes at school the next day i saw this when his my space IM popped up while i was on the computer...
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Re: MySpace, a place without MyParents
2008-06-19
Anonymous
Anonymous
I hate to say, if a person is trying to sell him "pipes" then the seller already knows your son, as for canceling the account, it will take emails from you, I know I just went through this, and the child was under the 14 age limit, so keep e-mailing them, it took 2 weeks for me to get my wifes daugh...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2008-06-19
parernts beware
parernts beware
I will disagree with the author, every parent now remembers what they did as a young teen, socializing yada, yada, think back, myspace isn't for expression, it is for exploitation and group meetings, I don't mean adults exploiting our kids it the other kids. I have been on the net since the 80's (b...
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MySpace, a place without MyParents
2009-02-24
Anonymous
Anonymous
Is the writer of this piece a parent? If so, I'd like to see how you deal with your own kid if they were to use Myspace in a way that was damaging to their health or mind. It is dangerous. A lot of parents don't live in the same house as their child and have zero control over what is done on a compu...
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