October 6, 2007

What Facebook Could Learn from MySpace (BusinessWeek)

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The MySpace account owned by Jammie Thomas featured a note on Friday that called the sum she owes music industry “ridiculous” and suggested she would accept financial help.Woman who owes RIAA $220,000 speaks out on MySpace page (CNET)

By NATHANIEL JONES Four area sex offenders accused of illegally creating profiles on MySpace.com were arrested last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Thursday. Parole and probation conditions prohibited the men from participating on social-networking Web sites. Abbott’s Cyber Crimes and Fugitive Units investigators arrested 14 men in September. The local men are: Michael Ray …Area sex offenders arrested, linked to MySpace (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday that four North Texas sex offenders violated their parole by creating profile pages on MySpace.com. The four were among 14 arrested last month as part of a larger investigation into sex offenders on the popular social networking website.Dallas-Fort Worth area sex offenders using MySpace arrested (Dallas Morning News)

Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that over the last four months they have arrested 14 convicted sex offenders, including a San Antonio resident, for having a profile on MySpace.Sex Offenders Using MySpace Arrested (KSAT ClickOnSA.com via Yahoo! News)

Thousands of children and teens use the Web site MySpace to keep in touch and make new friends. But how safe is MySpace when it comes to Internet dangers?Sex offenders arrested for using MySpace (KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley)

Fourteen sex offenders from Dallas and Houston with profiles found on Myspace.com are arrested.Myspace.com Sex Offenders Arrested (NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth)

What Facebook Could Learn from MySpace (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)

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When online predators creep onto MySpace.com to lure teenagers, they might soon be met by a badge of the Butte County Sheriff’s Department.Warning to youth about myspace.com from Butte County Sheriff Department (Gridley Herald)

More arrests have been made in the Texas Attorney General’s effort to stop sex predators, and one is familiar to Leon County.MySpace Lands Convicted Sex Offenders in Jail Again (KBTX 3 Bryan/College Station)

For the record, Richard Wistocki is not a 14-year-old girl. He’s a 41-year-old detective with the Naperville (Ill.) Police Department’s Computer Crimes Unit, but he poses as a female teen, using the name “Sierra,” on social networking site Facebook. What he’s found there, Wistocki says, suggests Facebook isn’t doing all it can to ensure it protects minors from harm.What Facebook Could Learn from MySpace (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)

Teenagers trying to avoid sexual predators on MySpace now have a new friend to help them out. Officers at the Butte County Sheriff’s Department are taking a new approach to keeping predators away from children by posting their own MySpace pages.Butte County Officers Join MySpace To Protect Teens (KCRA TheKCRAChannel.com via Yahoo! News)

MySpace, PayPal let candidates fund-raise online (San Diego Union-Tribune)

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By NATHANIEL JONES Four area sex offenders accused of illegally creating profiles on MySpace.com were arrested last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Thursday. Parole and probation conditions prohibited the men from participating on social-networking Web sites. Abbott’s Cyber Crimes and Fugitive Units investigators arrested 14 men in September. The local men are: Michael Ray …Area sex offenders arrested, linked to MySpace (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Fourteen sex offenders from Dallas and Houston with profiles found on Myspace.com are arrested.Myspace.com Sex Offenders Arrested (NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth)

A string of arrests by the Attorney General’s Office revealed sexual predators attempting to establish identities on MySpace. As many as 14 people were captured in the Houston and Dallas areas, but one of them was found nearby.Hill Country Community Glad To Be Rid Of MySpace Predator (KXAN 36 Austin)

The MySpace account owned by Jammie Thomas featured a note on Friday that called the sum she owes music industry “ridiculous” and suggested she would accept financial help.Woman who owes RIAA $220,000 speaks out on MySpace page (CNET)

Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that over the last four months they have arrested 14 convicted sex offenders, including a San Antonio resident, for having a profile on MySpace.Sex Offenders Using MySpace Arrested (KSAT ClickOnSA.com via Yahoo! News)

Thousands of children and teens use the Web site MySpace to keep in touch and make new friends. But how safe is MySpace when it comes to Internet dangers?Sex offenders arrested for using MySpace (KGBT 4 Rio Grande Valley)

Advocates are urging Facebook to make its social networking site safer by taking a page from MySpace’s security measuresWhat Facebook Could Learn from MySpace (BusinessWeek)