Did you hear the following about MySpace and parenting today?

For parents who want to see what local high school students are posting on MySpace but aren’t particularly computer-savvy, here’s the skinny:More on using MySpace (Akron Beacon Journal)

The dangers of the Internet have again arisen, and this time they’ve taken the form of a 14-year-old Iowa girl who was allegedly lured away by two men she met through MySpace.com and assaulted. The popular networking website has received the brunt of the criticism, and the incident raises familiar and serious issues we face in our networked society.Blaming MySpace won’t solve sex-offender issues (The Daily Iowan)

Federal Legislation Would Make It a Crime for Sexual Offernders to Lie About Their Age OnlineCongress, MySpace Team Up to Fight Sexual Predators (ABC News)

News Corp.’s popular Web network MySpace, criticized for not doing enough to protect young people on its site from sexual predators, said on Monday it opened access to its database of U.S. sex offenders to a center that tracks missing children.MySpace opens sex offender list to missing kids group (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Federal Legislation Would Make It a Crime for Sexual Offernders to Lie About Their Age OnlineCongress, MySpace Team Up to Fight Sexual Predators (ABC News)

It is obvious that MySpace.com is a popular Web site.Portal to ‘coolness’ is invitation to predators (NorthJersey.com)