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MySpace safety - what happens on MySpace, and how do you keep your children safe?

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you've heard about MySpace. It's a website that is immensely popular with teens, because they can create their own pages and say what they want, to who they want. But how safe is MySpace? Here are three MySpace safety nightmares that you might want to consider - and after that, tips on how they can be avoided.

MySpace Safety Nightmare One
Your daughter goes to the local high school. Like all her friends, she has her own page on MySpace, where anyone can read almost everything about her life. She lists her date of birth, her full name, her interests, her hobbies. Thursday night she goes to ballet, Mondays she plays the flute. For fun, she's put a picture of herself in a bikini on her page. Nothing terribly suggestive, just a snapshot from a nice day on the beach last summer. This can all seem very harmless - but imagine giving this kind of information away to a stalker or a sexual predator?

If somebody in your town were to search MySpace for students at the local high school, he would probably find hundreds of listed girls and boys. If he liked the look of a particular girl, it would be incredibly easy for him to locate her. If he also knows where she'll be at a particular time, there's no telling what might happen.

MySpace Safety Nightmare Two
Your daughter is eleven. She's too young to have her own page on MySpace, but her friends have told her what a cool website it is and she wants to have a look for herself. All she's interested in is pets - hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits - and she thinks she'll find other kids to talk to about animals.

Her first visit to MySpace is confusing, to say the least. Choosing to Browse, she's presented with a page full of smiling girls with strange names. "BabyUKnoUWantMe" she reads. "SuicidalTendencies" and "LickMyBoots"?. There's no mention of pets, so she decides to have a look at the MySpace blogs instead. Eventually, she does find a part of the site called "Pets and Animals", but the pictures are just of people and everyone seems to be using bad words a lot. After seeing some very odd pictures, she decides to leave the site - but how will she deal with what she's seen? Will she return to MySpace again?

MySpace Safety Nightmare Three
Your son is fourteen, and he can be a bit of a handful at times. Like most teenage boys, he rarely thinks before he speaks, and this has gotten him into trouble sometimes. Lately, he's been spending a lot of time on MySpace, and although you're not exactly sure what he's doing there you're relieved because at least he's at home. When he's at the computer, you don't have to worry about his safety - do you?

One day, there's a fire at his school. Upsetting, yes, but you're not overly concerned because it was put out very quickly. The following day, the police knock on your door and ask to speak to your son. After a tip from some other students, they had a look at your son's MySpace page. Apparently, it's full of hateful rants about the school and several threats about "burning the whole thing to the ground". You're shocked. You had no idea.

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