December 4, 2006

Where predators lurk (The Rockingham News)

MySpace.com and parenting - still in the news! Check out the below.

RAYMOND — The first time Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams heard about the MySpace.com “social network” was four years ago, when several Salem teens used their cell phones to take photos of each other engaged in sexual activity in the back of a bus during a field trip, and then posted the photos on MySpace.Where predators lurk (The Rockingham News)

In last week’s final installment of A Boy’s Life: Making Choices, columnist Ralph De La Cruz wrote about boys and technology and the challenge that comes in finding a balance between their lives and the digital reality. We posed the following question to our panel of experts, which includes youth advocates, counselors, parents and a teenage boy. Here’s how they responded. How do parents helpParents, ride shotgun on information superhighway (Sun-Sentinel)

In its continuing effort to make the Internet a safe place for children, Verizon announced today that it has awarded a $150,000 grant to support the work of the Crimes against Children Research Center, located at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).Verizon Partners for a Child-Safe Internet (SYS-CON Media)

Desert parents are invited to a special meeting tonight. An FBI agent will lead a discussion regarding the MySpace.com website. It’s a popular site for young people, but it’s also magnet for child predators.FBI addressing local parents’ MySpace concerns (KESQ)

Teenagers love MySpace.com. For principals, it’s more like My Headache. At various schools in Northern Kentucky, they’ve caught students breaching security systems to access MySpace during the day. They’ve also dealt with conflicts that erupt after students provoke each other online.MySpace invading schools (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

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