"Myspace Stupid"
How is it that teens are getting murdered by meeting people through myspace? Whose fault is it? Myspace? Parents?
I think that it is the kids that got murdered's fault. I mean, Im sorry for them and maybe they didnt know any better, but they should. I mean why in the world would you go to meet some anonymous person?
Ok. Maybe you like them, they seem nice, blah blah blah ok then atleast meet them with a group of friends that you trust and go somewhere public. I dont really know any secondary things to do for that but common sense is what is needed.
Now every parent thinks that Myspace is bad and that stuff will happen to you...not really. Every time something happens people think it will happen to everyone, well you wont catch me getting murdered from a person i met on myspace
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Lots of myspace people are just kids, though.. parents should be aware of what their kids are doing. Its their responsibility too.
OK, as a mom, this post really rubs me wrong
I'm sure that if you think about what you're saying you'll agree that the only person to blame here is the murderer. Please, let's not fall into the trap of blaming the victim.
Yes, myspace is being unfairly blamed. Yes, parents should pay more attention to what their kids are doing. Yes, the kids are putting themselves at risk by meeting someone they met online.
But, ultimately, the ONLY person to blame is the monster who commits the crime.
And while we're at it--do you really think it's possible for a parent (espeically a working parent) to know everything her kids does? That might work in the Enchanted Forest but here in the real world we don't sit on our children 24/7.
Last point--you obviously have never been sexually abused. There's no one on this earth more manipulative or more convincing than a sexual predator. Don't you for a moment think that the kids who get victimized by these monsters are stupid. IQ has nothing to do with it.
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Thats a really good point.. but we have to protect ourselves from the murderers too. I know its hard to keep tabs on your kids 24/7 but they need to at least be talked to about the dangers of meeting people online ya know? I've met people online and some of them ahve been WEIRD. I mean one of them started screaming at me one time while I was in his CAR.
Stupid right? But he seemed so nice and normal. Luckily nothing happened and I never spoke to him again but ever since then I met people in public places. Its so easy to trust over the net.
I agree and I alluded to
I agree and I alluded to that in my first reply--parents keeping tabs, I mean. But, still, to blame anyone other than the person who actually commits the crime is absurd.
If we, as a society are going to say "No woman ever deserves to be raped, regardless of why she wears or what she does for a living" I think we owe the same to the victims of sexual predators. We cannot say "It's your fault because you were manipulated by someone twice your age and with far more experience than you."
And not every child has that adult willing to talk to them about the dangers of online stalking. For many of these children, online attention is the only real attention they receive and that is what makes them so vulnerable.