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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Yesterday, we took a look at the dismissal of the federal lawsuit against Lori Drew, who had set up a false profile on MySpace and harassed a teenager who eventually committed suicide. The following story looks at another teenager who had a MySpace account and was harassed by a 40-year-old man.
While this type of thing may not affect our online businesses right now, I am personally convinced that it will lead to increased Internet regulation, particularly with respect to social networking sites.
The bottom line: If you are a parent, you must take some responsibility for your kids. As a website owner or blogger, it is critical that you have a solid privacy policy and terms and conditions page (the link shows you some free and paid options).
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I agree wholeheartedly. We need these regulation, and we need them fast! Right now the internet is like the wild west – there is some law, in theory. But it only works so far, and only in specific places.
One thing that no one has talked about, is the different perception of the net the younger generation has. For us, people that used to actually go out to have fun, not go online, this is a much smaller issue than for them, raised with Internet access from the moment they were old enough to handle a computer.
You can try filing complaints with the FBI and the police. You don’t indicate how they are harassing you…is it via IM’s, e-mails or web posting? If it is via IM’s and e-mails, you can set you account to block certain e-mail addresses and also file a complaint against the user for a Terms of Service Violation with their internet provider if known.
Its a balance what happened to that girl was cruel plain and simple. You can’t protect kids 100% of the time. There needs to be a balance between censorship/rights and simply being human.
Well…here’s a way to avoid that stuff. We’re pretty liberal parents but we do not allow our 14-year old daughter to have a myspace page. We’re still thinking about Facebook.
Well said! Teenagers are well made scapegoats by cheats like the one you broached. Really a strong and stringent universal regulation on internet security should be enacted to curb the menace. But recently i read that China tried to foist an embargo on malicious sites there were strong backlash from the Chinese people so the government had to abandon it. So, is this the doom? God save the gullibles!
When you are online, its almost impossible to understand the identity of person you come in contact through various social networking websites or chat rooms. Its the responsibility of parents to make their kids so smart that they should become the victim of such incidents. Internet is for everyone and its full of useful information but also there is such kind of risks associated with this.
Bless!
it depends on the site if its a chat copy and past the chat things she says in a email and email it to the head people or get proof email and write letters and call them if it gets out of hand
I don’t think it totally depends up on parents because they can not follow his kids every time. It depends upon thoughts developed by kids.