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Myspace.com What you need to know. What is it?  My Space in theory is a social networking site that allows users to share photos, videos, and text based.

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1 myspace.com What you need to know

2 What is it?  My Space in theory is a social networking site that allows users to share photos, videos, and text based messages.  However it can also be used to bully and threaten others  Give pedophiles personal information.

3 What is it?  Once again, in theory you have to be at least 14 years old to open a MySpace account.  In reality there is nothing to prevent a ten year old from claiming to be 20.  Or a 50 year old from claiming to be 14!

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5 Personal Information  Students post personal information about themselves.  There is no control by MySpace over the content.  Here are two examples of typical profiles: One more or less true The other a little more creative!

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7 By the way, he’s 14! Both kids are students at Pierce!

8 Blogging

9  Kids are not connecting what they’re doing on the computer or posting on My Space to real life…There are no rules as to what can or cannot be posted.  They can block others from accessing their site – including parents!

10 Can students get into MySpace at school?  MySpace is blocked by our Internet filter. But Students get around this by using proxy avoidance sites.

11 How do we prevent them from accessing it at school? Two words

12 Staff Monitoring!

13 How about at home? Parental monitoring!

14 If parents are aware that their child has a MySpace account – and approve – they should  Be sure they are not blocked from the site.  Monitor the site frequently – daily if possible.  Periodically do a search on their child’s name – plus any nicknames.


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