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One of the newest debates appears to be about the safety of MySpace when concerning our teens. Unfortunately the world is more focused on sex than many of the other continuos problems that occur. As an adult it is very easy to get access to a teen's personal information. A countless number of predators are crawling all over the internet and MySpace inadvertanly provides the ease of creating a false account. Anyone can pose as a 16 year old.

MySpace boasts to undergo security measures and follow rules of conduct and terms of service in order to create a safe structured environment for their users. I myself have a different view of Myspace. They do NOT ensure the users follow the code of conduct or terms of service. None of this should be acceptable. We need to get MysSpace to reform their rules and their responsibility to enforce those rules. We cannot keep our children from trying to be social. The heavier consequences of those that are found to have committed misconduct online needs to be addressed in order to create a real sense of security or monitoring, not the false impression of monitoring that exists now. We need this as a way to protect our kids from predators and the sick fascinations that they have. Violent videos attract people with violent fantasies or a real violent streak for entertainment. Young, vulnerable mostly naked teens will attract the perversion of a predator. We need unification on this subject in order to protect their future. If a sick individual reels them in off of online into real life, they may not have a future left.

I have two teens that use MySpace. I try to monitor their computer use the best I can, but at times I have had to fly over the line in order to get answers. I ended up contacting MySpace to inform them to remove my daughter's account or to remove the inappropriate content off of it about two months ago. They in turn sent me an email with a 1-800 number and a code to be able to get through that expired with in 72 hours. Why would some one try to prevent me from having easy access to report abuse or potentially dangerous problem regarding an account. If she was being stalked or threatened would I want a long complicated set of measures and emails in order to be able to tell someone over the phone about it? This is an opinion article and the opinion is, that this is 'horse sh*t."

I posed as a 17 year old male in order for her to invite me to view her private profile. All I did was sit down for ten minutes and decide

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