, 2007-05-23
It has recently been reported that Attorney’s General’s from about a dozen U.S. States, including Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania have demanded that News Corporation’s social networking site MySpace voluntarily deliver to the AG’s a list of all sex offenders who have registered for or used the MySpace social networking service.
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Parents need to do more to protect their children. There is no way that I would let my minor children out of my site long enough to meet a predator. Of course, they can not get to any social networking sites online at my home and are not allowed to use the internet outside of the home.
Know where your children are, who they are with at all times. 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds are still children. Know what they are up to at all times. There is no other surefire way to protect them.
The young adults in our family are also told about the dangers of saying certain things in public or meeting anyone alone. Putting personal information online is the equivalent to broadcasting it on television or worse because it stays up there for people to revisit. If it isn't something you'd stand up in the middle of town and say to everyone there, then don't say it online.
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