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[...] loves nothing more than to talk about sexual predators lurking around the big social networks. Both MySpace and Facebook have had to make big changes to their privacy policies, particularly how they set up [...]

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Thu, 22 May 2008 00:05:00 +0000

[...] later on today. This comes on the heels of a comprehensive agreement the 49 states made with MySpace last January. (The lone holdout in both cases is Texas). Blumenthal and North Carolina Attorney General Roy [...]

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[...] for adult products, like booze and cigarettes, to members who are of age. MySpace made a similar agreement inJanuary, so it’s somewhat essential for Facebook to get on board before the authorities started [...]

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Facebook To Announce Safety And Privacy Deal With 49 States - weblaunches — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:12:11 +0000

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By: Marek

Marek — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:54:31 +0000

I completely agree with Michelle. While these changes may assure government bodies that “the thing is taken seriously” and “something is being done about it”, the truth is that they provide little or no help to this issue. The internet and social networks within are just another means of communication, and the best way would be to increase awareness between minors of these issues, preferably by an online “pop-up div” (unblockable) campaign. The real issue is whether MySpace and others are willing to take a risk of being “labelled” by putting out such a campaign. The best option would be if a number of major social networks would agree to put out a campaign simultaneously. Let’s hope they do.

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Myspace Changes Don’t Protect Minors - Betaflow — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:36:17 +0000

[...] announced a deal today with 49 state attorneys general and Washing D.C. to put measures in place to protect minors from sexual predators. These measures [...]

By: Michelle Greer

Michelle Greer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:01:15 +0000

I do not understand what prevents a 35 year old man from creating a MySpace profile that says he is 15 and working his way in. Wouldn’t he know exactly where to go if there is a high school section?

By: CanCar

CanCar — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:51:09 +0000

To the latin adolescents I recommend metroflog to them. But is unique responsibility of the parents controled the material that our children are handle in Internet.

By: Energy Room Breeze

Energy Room Breeze — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:39:11 +0000

We may have had a conversation in the Energy Room about this at one point.

Sexual predators should be towed behind a wake-boarding boat without a wake-board or a life jacket, right into the Amazon river, where hopefully, a school of man-eating piranha relieve them of of most of themselves.

Nice.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:13:07 +0000

MySpace has led the industry in protecting minors. This looks like an interesting move and I hope it does more than satisfy the AGs and people who really don’t understand safety issues.

I fear that the email list and age verification systems will actually work to inadvertently create false sense of security amongst parents and the people who really need to protect their children.

By: Alison Lowndes

Alison Lowndes — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:24:00 +0000

Won’t be long before FaceBook does it as they’ll look irresponsible now .. especially if TechCrunch are working the story too.

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By: EH

EH — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:44:55 +0000

Mmm, instead of the TSA we get the MSA and a “no-profile list.” Odds on when the first problem with this plan comes up? Maybe some band will sue for not being able to create a profile with which to promote themselves, causing loss of professional standing. It’ll be something.

By: Boring Market

Boring Market — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:35:33 +0000

The bigger the social network gets, the more problems they will have.

By: IMSafer

IMSafer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:32:17 +0000

This is a good start and I applaud MySpace for taking steps to keep their space safer. However, asking a parent to add an email address of their child is somewhat ridiculous. Email addresses are cheap and disposable. A lot of parents don’t even know their kid’s email and even if they do a child can easily get a new email address in seconds. A lot of parents don’t even know if their kids have a MySpace page. You would be startled at many of the emails we get at IMSafer from parents who are amazed at what they find about their kids online behavior. Kids have multiple MySpace pages, parent safe pages, and the page they use with their friends. The steps taken by MySpace certainly are a step forward, however, it’s a marathon and a few steps are a long way from really solving the problem. Basically this agreement with the AG’s says hey, “we’ll work on it”. Looks like a PR strategy, not a real set of solutions to stave the issue.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:26:11 +0000

MySpace should partner with http://www.imbee.com the secure social network for kids and tweens. At least that way users under the age of 13 will have a decent option instead of going on to MySpace. Maybe that will help.

By: MP3Nation

MP3Nation — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:17:21 +0000

This had to be done by Myspace sooner or later.

By: TechnoQ

TechnoQ — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:16:18 +0000

Good step by MySpace.

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By: User447

User447 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:57:48 +0000

Bebo’s for British people. They’re called solicitors over there.

It’s clear that there will have to be a threshold of American users met before they require any other company to do the same as myspace. They did this in response to a problem, not as legislation.

By: babyjesus

babyjesus — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:49:17 +0000

or.. join a ’social network’ (i vomit in my mouth a little every time i hear that term these days) that’s for ages 18+ so you don’t have to hang out with your 14 year old nieces and nephews. but that’s just crazy talk!

-mike