RENO CHANNEL 4 NEWS — Apr 18 — Denise's daughter is a middle school student, but to Internet users she's a very different person. "She put that she was 18, making $100,000 a year," on myspace.com. Her daughter got a lot of responses from older men. The website requires users to be over 18, but that hasn't stopped school students from logging on. School officials say myspace.com is one of several online networks they may seem fun to kids, but can make them easy targets for Internet predators. "We got filtering software installed in all the servers in schools, it automatically updates itself, we can add a specific address which is what we did in this case." News 4 attempted to reach myspace.com for comment, but did not get a response.
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Mark Brooks: Sheesh, where to start with this one? MySpace does have a younger audience. HotorNot also. But we can only do so much policing. Of course, if everyone put down their credit cards we could verify age quite easily. Freedoms vs infractions. Your comments please…
I think education is in order. Just like sex, they are going to do it anyway, so why don’t we give them the tools and the knowledge to recognize these predetors? Maybe the habitual conversation points, the behaviours of these people?
On Line Dating / Social Networking Sites’ Legislation
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Parent Control (Internet Access by children are responsability of their parents)
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Fernando Ardenghi
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Buenos Aires
Argentina