MySpace.com: Is the Safety of Our Children in Jeporady?

Two years ago a new craze began to sweep the nation, MySpace.com came onto the scene and everyone from teenagers all the way to adults went crazy for it. The chances of you finding someone that you are searching for on MySpace.com are probably about eight in ten. The only person I know that doesn't have a MySpace page is my boyfriend, and that's because he is computer illiterate. I have found many an old friend just hanging out on MySpace waiting for me to come along and message them. Truthfully you actually come to expect such a thing. Yet, you have to ask is this really a good thing or a bad thing?

With all the hype surrounding the child porn rings on the Internet today should teenagers (and even some children) be allowed to use this site? Chances are that most parents are not really monitoring what their kids are doing. Little Susie Smith who is thirteen thinks she is talking to a fourteen year old boy from her school when really the person she is talking to is a fifty year old man! Something to me says this just isn't safe. Of course we've known this for awhile now, it's been all over the news. Yet, this craze just seems to keep going on and on. It has even gotten to the point where you can find a MySpace profile for any singer or band out there and movies have their own profiles as well.

Kudos to Tom for creating such a award winning craze, I'm sure he's getting rather rich off the deal. Who can blame him? The next Bill Gates? Okay, it isn't likely. However, I keep getting notices about how he's trying to do away with the spammers and people like I mentioned above. Yet I keep getting emails and friend requests from the very same spammers signing up for multiple MySpace accounts! I understand that it can be expensive to run a free site like this, but that's exactly what he has sponsors for. You would think with the number of children versus sicko's out there that they might work a little harder to get these safety precautions up.

Truthfully the way to do things would be to set an age limit of 17 for MySpace.com, truly children have no business being on the Internet anyways unless it is to do research for school or maybe to email the occasional friend. There are many things that can be done for age verification, and we all know that MySpace.com has to be getting millions of dollars in sponsorship money every year so why not spend some of that on protecting our children? My opinion rests at this, he's keeping the money for himself! When it comes safety for our children I give MySpace.com a big thumbs down.