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MySpace's Zephyr tracking solution: refreshing change or hot air?
Most parents with a teen or 'tween would rest more comfortably at night if they knew what websites their children were browsing online. Given the emergence of two wildly popular online communities--MySpace and Facebook--and new social networks springing up every month, it's a tall task for parents to determine which sites their kids are logged onto, what information they're sharing, and with whom.
MySpace has come under fire for the very quality that made it a success: making it easy for anyone and everyone to create a site of their own. In the process of enabling all users, it may have unintentionally enabled sexual predators that falsify information in order to ...
- THE MAN MOVES IN ON MYSPACE; Businesses flock to teen-socializing site to...
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Bulik, Beth Snyder June 12, 2006 700+ words
...817 friends and is a typical MySpace user. In real life, the 34...Electronics. While many think of MySpace simply as an online teen-socializing site, grown...adults aged 35 and older use MySpace, and more than 60% of unique...
- MySpace bashing teen gets jail time.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence September 8, 2009 700+ words
...video and made available on the internet social networking site MySpace. The 17-year-old male who recorded the footage had earlier...Publication Date: 9 September 2009 SOUTHPORT MAGISTRATE'S COURT MYSPACE NEWS CORPORATION - ASX NWS Copyright 2009 LexisNexis Australia...
- Man arrested for using MySpace site to draw teen to Barstow motel.
- Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Victorville, CA) April 18, 2006 700+ words
...BARSTOW -- Police have arrested a local man who had sex with a teen he met through a popular Web site, officials said. Michael...Police Sgt. Mark Franey. The two had met some months ago on MySpace.com, a social networking site well -known among youngsters...
- Teen charged with making death threats: The MySpace message told the target...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...message was left on another teen's MySpace page. According to a search...received the message on his MySpace page from a member named "Capone." MySpace is a social networking site...and "Capone" told the teen he was going to shoot him...
- Fact File: HarperCollins, MySpace book a place on teen readers'...
- Magazine article from: PR Week (US) January 7, 2008 700+ words
...unit, has teamed with MySpace to launch the interactive page MySpace/HarperTeen. The page targets teen readers seeking to connect...2008. 4. HarperTeen Teen Lit newsletters encourage...readers to sign up on the MySpace page for blog posts from...
- Judge tosses verdict in cyberbully case; Decision is tentative; Woman involved...
- Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) July 3, 2009 700+ words
...out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended...acquaintance of Drew's daughter, online via Beverly Hills-based MySpace. Megan hanged herself with a belt in October 2006 after getting...
- Mount Prospect man charged with sexual abuse Police say 21- year-old met teen...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Ryan, Joseph August 13, 2006 700+ words
...relations with a 15-year-old girl he met on the teen popular Web site MySpace. Thomas B. Zuffante, of 3 S. Elm St., is charged...police first came across Zuffante while surfing MySpace for child predators May 26, and they noticed communications...
- Online social networking: sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Xanga are...
- Magazine article from: District Administration Dyrli, Odvard Egil March 1, 2006 700+ words
...popular free online social network site MySpace. The warnings said two boys were planning...in communities and across the world. MySpace claims more than 41 million subscribers...daily. Although the major social networks MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, LiveJournal...
