MySpace makes child online safety pact with US prosecutors : "MySpace has agreed to develop safety enhancements that include letting parents submit children's email addresses to prevent profiles from being created using them, and to respond within 72 hours to complaints of inappropriate content."
MySpace needs to do something in my humble opinion because if MySpace were a person at the very least we'd be taking a restraint order out. It is an invention which brings about a lot of harm - it seems to be a place which can brign about some horrible behaviour even though it is not its intention. There have been some pretty sad cases where MySpace has been party to negative behaviour. I wonder how much it is costing each community in terms of the work it generates for police, psychologists, care workers. It is something which needs to be looked at because its potential to generate some really disastrous behaviour in the community is evident. It is not the fault of MySpace but it is nevertheless the impact it can have. Something needs to be done about it and MySpace needs to be party to it. The cost to the community from social networking needs to be determined and MySpace gets some bad press and yet it may not be the only site which attracts the negatives. Certainly has a PR problem and as I said, were it a human we'd be taking some pretty strong action.
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