Sunday, December 03, 2006

The safety tips page on myspace interests me. If you run across racism or inappropriate postings, report to myspace or the authorities. If you're a pedophile, you're in deep trouble - myspace will delete your user profile! (Same goes if you're in fifth grade and have a myspace).

Maybe I'm being too negative - I guess it's kind of important that they'd have a page like this, but they do kinda hide it along the bottom row of "about" and "faq" links that nobody ever dares to go to...

The links to other sites are a nice touch, although I think if I were fifteen and on myspace, I'd be immediately put off by all of them, from the casual use of the letter Z to be hip, or the run-by-the-local-police-department feel.

The parent tips part of the safety tips page is interesting, too - myspace sorta owns up to being a teen hangout, instead of a place where you can map your family tree (as they suggest on the about page, which i linked to in my previous post). Basically the same things are written as are on the page geared towards kids, just reworded for parents.

Clicking on the links to remove your child's profile just takes you to the general page for deleting a profile at all. The faulty logic is that parents share email addresses with their kids. Something tells me that a kid who has a myspace account probably has his or her own email address too.

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