MySpace Bans 29,000 Sex Offenders

If you aren't paying attention to your children, someone else will! Know your children, know their friends Know their internet, and MySpace habits! Set up parental controls, make them share their passwords, check in on their pages periodically and remove objectionable material. YOU ARE THE PARENT, they are the child. With great freedoms, come great responsibilities.

ugh, I can't stand how everyone keeps blaming myspace for everything. A lot of it is the parents, and they need to make their kids aware but you can't put the blame on the parents either b/c you know what kids are capable of, they'll do whatever behind their parents' backs. They need to be taught personal responsibility. Have you seen what 12, 13 and 14 yr old girls look like these days?!!! ANYWAY - They can make their page private so only friends see, they have the option to accept or deny a strange 40 something yr old guy when he friend requests them, and they don't have to post photos of them in bikinis and boots I mean c'mon, you're how old?! It's only ASKING for a creepy old dude to try and talk to them. I'm glad myspace is trying to do something to monitor the sex offenders, b/c obviously the government isn't. They're the ones who repeatedly let them out of jail, while they repeatedly commit the same crimes!!!! So who is REALLY to blame???? Putting them on a "list" somewhere doesn't stop them, so why should banning then from creating a myspace profile stop them either? Where there's a will, there's a way -- that's all I have to say.

*them. . . . pretty much, parents should monitor their kids and the government should more closely monitor the activity of free, but known sex offenders (free, but known sex offenders. . . yeah, doesn't make sense to me either!!)

This is like blaming McDonalds for getting your kids fat, or blaming an amusement park for your kid getting motion sickness... pointing fingers is easier than actually doing something about the problem...I know parents... it must be REAL hard to ban your child from a website. Facebook is just like myspace, there are TONS of websites like these... If people are that worried about the site, BLOCK IT, by allowing your children to use the site, you are allowing them to be exposed to all types of people, including the sex offenders. Don't blame the website.

I think that no matter how secure anyone thinks myspace is or is going to be it is an active website that needs the participation of everyone to keep it safe.
if you are a parent and you want your kids safe, block it.
if you have it and you want to keep yourself safe don't give out the wrong information. also don't fill out surveys that ask you what the first three numbers of your cell phone are. cause someone stalking you will have you whole phone number when later you fill one out that says what are the last four numbers of you cell phone number.
Myspace needs to keep getting rid of questionable or dangerous sites.

so no matter who you blame it on there will always be flaws with no point of blame. just be safe.