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Here I am sitting at work searching on the Internet for articles about myspace.com and facebook.com and the dangers for women. Strange enough I found more articles about the dangers these sites have towards children. Not that this is a bad thing, but it's also dangerous out there for women.

These sites seem to have a tremendous following. I should know because I have a myspace page. I made sure I was not one of those (forgive me) myspace junkies; where people have about 4,596 "friends" on their page. Who knows that many people? I hardly know all of my relatives on my father's side of the family.

How it all started

Let me take you back to what sparked this idea for an article.
I was sitting in a waiting area of a human resources office waiting to be called for my job interview. There was a magazine on the (coffee) table that stood out. It was in the Newsweek or the New Yorker; I cannot recall exactly. It was an article about facebook and myspace (mainly facebook). I just skimmed the two opinions about the site. The one opinion that article that caught my attention was from a couple who met on facebook.com and a year later married.

I am very happy that someone was able to find love, especially on the internet. Finding love or anything of the sort over the internet is tough enough alone. Myself, not so lucky, I am on the myspace.com network and I have been so for almost a year. Within the year I have 83 "friends". 14 of them are family members, 12 are real friends, 9 are from movies I enjoy, 4 are other people I do not really know, 2 are organizations and then I have some bands and comics. So in other words I'm not on the site for the popularity contest.

There is nothing on my page that shows what I look like or any detail description of me. So fellow myspace'ers are gambling on the hopes that I am a decent looking person but the pictures that I do have on the site is in photo album only for friends to view. My pictures are just me (because my friends that I socialize with are not on myspace.com nor do they want their pictures on it and I respect that). The few pictures I do have on there no one views because there's nothing exciting about them, I'm not showing skin or flashing any body parts.
The people who visit my web page tells me how shocking it is that a twenty something female is in to Transformers, comics or whatever I choose to use for my web layout. Or I would have people commenting on my favorite movies and bands. So what's the harm in that?

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