MySpace Link Yields Arrest:
From the state that brought you such ‘luminaries’ as Scott Shefelbine and David Leonard comes the story of one Christopher Griswold.
He’s a 21-year-old male from the Constitution State who caught by a 12-year-old girl’s mother trying to lure the 12-year-old for sex over MySpace.
Region 10 School Superintendent Alan Beitman had some [...]
Bebo cyber-bully faces jail after tricking friend into falling in love with fake profile:
In the vein of the Megan Meier tragedy a 17-year-old boy from the UK is under arrest after causing his friend to attempt suicide via Bebo. Bebo is a social site along the lines of MySpace that is very popular in the [...]
Want To Protect Kids On MySpace? IP Addresses Are The Answer:
The short answer is no.
The author of the article takes MySpace to task for their pointless new safety measures. He also suggests that instead of giving your child’s e-mail address to MySpace to keep them off of it he suggests giving your IP address instead. [...]
Copycat death cult rips apart town as SEVEN teenagers commit suicide:
I ride the American press constantly for shoddy journalism. It could be worse. It could be the British press. No offense to Brits but outside of the BBC you have some of the worst in media. Take for example this article from This Is London.
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Man admits to possessing child pornography, pursuing teens online:
26-year-old Ian Stuart Johnson of Calgary, Alberta, Canada pleaded guilty to child porn charges. It seems that Johnson would lure underage girls over the Canadian social site Nexopia offering them money and alcohol.
Everytime a Nexopia user would complain about Johnson they would shut down his account [...]
Have you heard about the woman who got busted for having video of her abusing her son on her cell phone? You have now and Lost in Lima Ohio has all the MySpace linkage you need about Aisha S. Bowen.
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Have you heard the story about the Salt Lake City woman who hid in her closet from burglars? ONly to have one of the burglars hide in the closet next to her when the cops showed up?
She stayed still and silent until officers entered the bedroom. Then Brittney said, “He’s in here!” Police ordered him [...]
Men Gone Manatee Fishing Catch Time In Prison:
Back in September I posted about two dumbasses named Karl Kuhn and Charles Podesta Jr. who were arrested for abusing a manatee and posted the video on MySpace.
I received some comments that said that this was just a harmless prank and there was nothing wrong with what [...]
Possible “Myspace” Connection to a Valley Murder:
19-year-old Dustin Gran and his 16-year-old girlfriend Brittany Navarra are accused in the bludgeoning death of 18-year-old Krista-Rae Pike of Madera, California.
It seems that Navarra used to date Krista-Rae Pike’s fiancé, Thomas Hollier. When Pike returned to Madera Hollier broke it off with Navarra and went back to Pike. [...]
Children’s Advocacy Group Scoffs at New MySpace Security Measures:
Robert Fellmeth is the director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego. He’s not happy with the new proposed security measures that MySpace will be putting in place.
I’m just concerned that parents will get a false sense of security that this is [...]
Teen Questioned About Facebook Comments:
A 15-year-old student from Tonganoxie, Kansas was pulled from class and taken into police custody over an alleged threat he posted on MySpace. The threat stated he hated school and planned to kill several people. He used the joke defense and it must have worked because police let him go and [...]
Teens arrested in videotaped beating posted on MySpace Web site:
Two 14-year-old girls in Newport Beach, California were arrested for beating a 13-year-old girl. They also filmed the beating and posted the video to MySpace.
Another reason why oarents should be monitoring their kids’ internet activity.
It’s also a reason why kids shouldn’t have camera cell phones.
Tags: beating, [...]
Teens turn to sites without monitoring:
This article from a local Arizona news outlet brings up a great point.
While soccer moms and politicians have their panties in a wad over MySpace no one is paying attention to the more dangerous site, in my opinion, Stickam.
Stickam is an unmonitored webcam chat site. To the unenlightened that means [...]
MySpace Child Protections Have Fatal Flaw:
This is a great post/article from Alexander Wolfe at Information Week about the flaws in MySpace’s new child protection plans. In his words the plan has a hole you could drive a virtual truck through. He also calls the plans toothless and I agree.
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Queens couple used 2 Internet teen girls for sex, prosecutors say:
22-year-old Sophie Soto and her husband, 31-year-old Julio Rojas, have been arrested for an assortment of charges. I’ll let the article explain the travesties they’ve committed…
The sordid saga began in late 2006, when Sophie Soto, 22, used the MySpace social networking site to contact one [...]
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