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LAJennifer

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Anyone here on myspace.com?
 
Not me.
 
My DD and ALL of her highschool friends are on there, I KNOW, THEY KNOW they''re supposed to be 18 tho. She spent the entire summer making pictures for her profile. Mostly it seems harmless for them. Originally I had mixed feelings about it but she''s let me watch over her shoulder while she surfs the last two summers. The kids don''t really have time during the school year to play on it much, thankfully.

A funny story about what a small world it is. DD was Flying on SWA to see my mother (her GM) and spotted a boy (her age, 15) that she thought she knew from "myspace." She was right, he ended up sitting in the seat next to her, they recoginzed each other, chatted about their meeting and that they lived in differenct places. Talk about chance.
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is my space like Facebook?
 
My daughter is on facebook. I like it better than myspace because it''s more restricted. She saw my godson last week on myspace and he listed himself as being gay. That was a shocker. He also listed his full name etc...
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I personally find facebook really creepy. All of my friends constantly bug me about putting myself up there, but I think it opens you up to bad things. Then again I am a wee bit paranoid.
 
I''m not happy about any of it. But the high school version of facebook seems to be safer than myspace. I tried to crack facebook and couldn''t.
 
What are these websites?
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I have never heard of these either.
 
Facebooks is a website where you can put up everything about yourself and people can link you from their websites. I was horrified when I was reading a web comic the other day and I noticed that my friend has sent in an email and her signature lnked her facebook profile...which meant everyone she knows on Facebook was linked as well. Which is why I avoid those things like the plauge. I just figure if you need to know something about me, I will have told you. Facebook is not a bad thing in concept I just am always amzed at how causually people will give out their life stories and personal info.
 
myspace.com is actually pretty scary. You can have it hide your name, but people can still search by it (with your virtual name then coming up). People put up multiple pictures, their annual salaries, where they work, what high school they went to, their address, etc! There''s no way to hide anything really, so if you don''t want it shown, don''t put it there!

Facebook is a little safer, but you have to be careful. I think people can sign up as "alumni" and don''t really need to be associated with a specific school. I am not exactly sure because I''ve never tried to crack into it. However, you can be quite liberal with your information or quite private. I know personally I do not allow anyone who is not a friend of mine or went to my high school search for me. So I don''t even appear as a student in my former college.

I think it''s just important to protect the information you feel is worth protecting (& of course teaching your kids what you feel is important to protect!!!).

For the people who don''t know what these pages are:

MySpace allows anyone to sign up & it''s kind of like an extended AOL Instant Messenger profile. You can put pictures, leave comments & become "friends" with people (whether they are friends or not).

Facebook was intended to connect kids in college. You can enter your class schedule and see who is in your class and again become "friends" with people. You can connect to people from other schools by searching for them or finding them through a friend of a friend. Facebook is pretty useful, but you can also give away wayyyyyyyyy too much information.
 
Date: 10/5/2005 4:45:01 PM
Author: AsscherGirl
myspace.com is actually pretty scary. You can have it hide your name, but people can still search by it (with your virtual name then coming up). People put up multiple pictures, their annual salaries, where they work, what high school they went to, their address, etc! There''s no way to hide anything really, so if you don''t want it shown, don''t put it there!

Facebook is a little safer, but you have to be careful. I think people can sign up as ''alumni'' and don''t really need to be associated with a specific school. I am not exactly sure because I''ve never tried to crack into it. However, you can be quite liberal with your information or quite private. I know personally I do not allow anyone who is not a friend of mine or went to my high school search for me. So I don''t even appear as a student in my former college.

I think it''s just important to protect the information you feel is worth protecting (& of course teaching your kids what you feel is important to protect!!!).

For the people who don''t know what these pages are:

MySpace allows anyone to sign up & it''s kind of like an extended AOL Instant Messenger profile. You can put pictures, leave comments & become ''friends'' with people (whether they are friends or not).

Facebook was intended to connect kids in college. You can enter your class schedule and see who is in your class and again become ''friends'' with people. You can connect to people from other schools by searching for them or finding them through a friend of a friend. Facebook is pretty useful, but you can also give away wayyyyyyyyy too much information.
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I completely agree that it''s VERY important for anyone of any age using these kind of sites, or "dating" sites as well, to always be mindful of the information that they reveal. As little as possible is best. Having worked for many years as a private investigator I''ve realized just how incredibly easy to put together misc. info that that can be too telling about the person you are, and where you''re located, etc!

I have definitely reined in my daughter''s use at times I felt it was inappropriate. Currently I think she has a decent understanding of what''s okay and what''s not at this point.

Unfortunately any perv is going to know how to work it to their benefit so it''s up the people using it to be smart about it.
 
Thanks for the info.
I''ll stick with PS!
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I''m on myspace. Most of the people in my "entertainment social circle" are as well. We use it to keep up with what is going on with each other. Most of us are musicians, etc. and we advertise our shows and promote our friends'' shows and parties etc, by using the bulletin board features. If I am singing anywhere coming up, I can post it on my bulletin board and all my "friends" will see it when they log on to their bulletin board. Same goes for any of my friends throwing a party, etc. Then we can post pics of the event after the fact. I think its a good way to know what is going on with all my friends who are all so busy. Yes, there are the occasional stalkers and creepy people but I just ignore them. And everyone on my "friends list" is actually my friend in "real life" - I don''t add people that I don''t know. My friends can leave comments about me on my page - sometimes we have little comment "wars" with each other. You can see my page if you go to my profile here on pricescope.
 
I''m on friendster. My sister is on myspace and she tried to get me to setup an account there too, but I hardly even use friendster. I only signed up for friendster because my friend was over at my house and set it up for me with my picture and next thing you know all these people from my elementary, middle, and high school were messaging me and adding me onto their friendster list.

Such sites as these are a good way to keep in touch with people that you don''t talk or email with often.
 
Maybe it's an LA thing?

A lot of the so-called D celebs from Real World, Laguna Beach, Road Rules etc are on there ....not to mention the people who pretend to be them. It's kind of like rabbits - they all add each other as friends and they add more and more and more. Just a tad narcissitic but in LA I can see how it would be considered networking.

Sorry - I edited this to add obviously you are an exception to the rabbit thing....but from what I have seen , in general people just add friends and before you know it they have 1000's. I am sure for many reality tv stars this is their way of extending their 15 minutes.
 
I used to do friendster, now i do myspace. I dont spend much time on there. but in the indie music scene its kinda a big deal. You find out who is doing shows where, and who is dj''ing where. It is actually quite good. A friend of mine signed up and she gets all kinds of creepy emails on it, but I think its because she put she was single (and guys do searches for that) Anyway, I dont think its the best idea for jrhigh or hs kids, but if you live in a big city its a great way to keep up with ''the scene'' so to speak.
 
do you know if this is sort of like yahoo 360, where myspace, et al is for youth, and yahoo 360 is for people of all ages?
 
I''m on myspace, and I like it better than Friendster, but more friends from college and hs have found me via Friendster.
 
I am still in school (DONE IN MAY!!!!) and I guess that is why soo many people nag me about it. But seriously I would warn your children, I ride my little bro, not to put up info such as the name of any school even elementary. They did a report on this awhile ago. With the name of your soccer team and your elemtary school, these men were able to get phone numbers, pictures, addresses....all sorts of scary things. It is frightening and children dont seem to be worried about pedophiles. THese sites are set up aimed at people who are old enough to know better, but often the people on them are still in Jr High.
 
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