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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=MySpace.com&btnG=Search+News Biggie news development Must click link
Police investigate whether assaults sparked by MySpace.com
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Police are investigating whether as many as seven teenage Middletown girls have been sexually assaulted by men they met through the popular Web site MySpace.com.
Users of the social networking site create profiles that can include photos, personal information and even cell phone numbers.
t is a predator's dream come true, this Web site," said Middletown Police Sgt. Bill McKenna. "Because not only can you see them, but you can see their friends. You can find out where they go to middle school and high school."
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I suspect that the WT controllers will play this hysteria up big to their advantage,and put them back to the internet stoneage.Good for the ranking of anti-wt pages
Elders sting operation on myspace
by troubled mind 41 Replies latest jw friends
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MySpace.com Assaults
by Terry PhillipsGirls put too much information about themselves on the web.
In what may be just the tip of the iceberg, eight under-aged girls have been assaulted by men they met through the web's newest rage, social blogs. The girls, between the ages of twelve and sixteen, are all members of MySpace-dot.com and put too much information on their websites. All eight cases occurred in Connecticut. That puts State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in charge and he suspects the problem is larger than Connecticut.
"I can only guess, but clearly this website is a predators dream and a parent's worst nightmare."
And MySpace isn't the only social blog out there. If you hear your kids say words like Xanga, FaceBook, Friendster, you want to get involved. Tom Neven, Senior Editor at Plugged-In Magazine, says just posting a school-name on such a site can start the trouble.
And then they'll post pictures of themselves with their friends. That's plenty of information for a very smart predator to be able to track you down and figure out who you are."
The craze over social blogs is growing. Staca Urie says they're the buzz with many middle and high schools students.
“Their comparing how many buddies and friends and links they have on these types of web sites is only adding fuel to the fire and making them more popular."
Daniel Weiss of Focus on the Family Action says parents have to come to grips with internet danger.
"Parents need to understand that anytime they let their kid go online alone it's as if they allowed a stranger into their child's bedroom and the stranger closed the door."
In Connecticut, Blumenthal is warning the social blogs to police themselves or he'll take action. The girls in Connecticut were all lucky in that the face-to-face encounters involved no violence. All the girls expected to meet boys their age and instead met adult men who had lied to them. One of the men traveled more that a thousand miles.
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A Watchtower propagandist dream article,watch them run with this.
OH and they learned of it from JWD