Did you hear the following about MySpace?

Miss England Georgia Horsley complains that a bogus MySpace profile makes her look ‘a bit thick’.MySpace mystery for Miss England (BBC News)

An 18-year-old Millville man was charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child after parents tipped local police off that he used MySpace to set up a meeting with their 12-year-old daughter.MySpace Message Tips Parents Off To Child’s Secret Meeting (NBC 10 Philadelphia)

Two years ago, MySpace was the cool, do-no-wrong website in the new area of social networking when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought it for $580 million. Now part of the company’s Fox Interactive unit, MySpace remains the Internet’s biggest social-networking site, with 200 million registered profiles and 100 million unique users a month. Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett, 45, is in charge …MySpace is crowded; Amanda Beard is a ‘GoDaddy Girl’ (USA Today)

NEW YORK - Two years ago, MySpace was the cool, do-no-wrong website in the new area of social networking when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought it for $580 million. Now part of the company’s Fox Interactive unit, MySpace remains the Internet’s biggest social-networking site, with 200 million registered profiles and 100 million unique users a month. Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett, 45, is …MySpace is crowded; Amanda Beard is a ‘GoDaddy Girl’ (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)

London, Oct 9 (ANI): Miss England Georgia Horsley has become the latest victim of an online prank, after a mystery imposter posted a bogus entry by her name on MySpace. The fake profile for Horsley says: "Hi I am Georgia Horsley some of you might know me some of might not I won Miss England on 30th June 2007. I am originally from Malton in North Yorkshire but at the mo I am living in …Miss England trapped in a fake MySpace profile storm (ANI via Yahoo! India News)

Miss England has criticised a spoof MySpace page which made her sound “thick” and “tarty”. Georgia Horsley has contacted the social networking site to try to get her bogus profile taken down.Miss England’s Anger At Bogus MySpace Site (FOX 35 Orlando)

Good morning!

Today I found the following articles about MySpace.com and parenting.

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 Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)

In rare but horrific cases, parents use net to pimp children to pedophiles.To Catch Two Predators: Parents Who Prostitute Children Online (ABC News)

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)

If you’re a parent buying a computer for a child, you have a lot to consider: Hard-drive speeds. Memory space. Rebates and online deals.Child predators face tougher penalties, but parents are best protectors (Sun-Sentinel)

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)

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)