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 (before pictures, video, "web content" was around), it was vast then, now it is 100 times worse. In our youth, or our parents youth if someone started a "roomer" most in school never heard it, now it's broad casted for all to read. I have went through this with my wifes daughter, after countless arguments over myspace, I had let her create one with me watching her to contact her friend on vacation. Well I wrote a keylogger to see what might be going on, it turned out her friend had already made an account 6 months prior, and even with pictures, now some parents would say this is an invasion of privacy, all I will say, who pays for the net, who bought the PC, and who is the Parent? It turned up, she was planning and had already set up meets with a "hormonal" boy, it was stopped "I pray" before anything happened, all I can tell parents. it's not a social meet, it's not the mall (it's private not in the public eye), it is a real danger for kids.

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