Sep 21 2006, 9:41 am
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GoodDoggyTreat
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If we're going to stop using MySpace because there are pedophiles on it, then let's stop using guns because people kill people with them.
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If we're going to stop using MySpace because there are pedophiles on it, then let's stop using guns because people kill people with them. There are no pedophiles on guns, though. :/ | |
Why would a pedophile need Myspace to pick up little boys rather than just getting one from off the streets?
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You know, pedophiles existed long before MySpace. Though MySpace has made it a little easier for more pedophiles to get a hold of children, if we take it away, it still won't change the fact that they will still exist and use other means to get their hands on children.
The 14 year olds who are getting pulled into it also have to take responsibility. What do they expect when interacting with a much older male? A tea party? | |
MySpace sucks, M'kay?
Thats just my opinon though. | |
Tiberath wrote, "Why do you people use it again?"
Because they want to be picked up. | |
Okay, O-Matic, I do not give a damn about that opinion. Want to know why? Being picked up by a pedaphile can be easily prevented and that is not what MySpace is USED for which Tiberath thinks it is. There are MANY ways to prevent this. Put your profile on Private so you can approve who you want to be added as a friend, etc., there are many ways around it. If little children are using it the parents should take notice and set the guideline rules for their page. It is not hard, it is very user-friendly. Why would a 14 year-old talk to someone he does not know over MySpace? Let alone MEET him? It is not anyone elses fault but his own. That is why I am mad, because nobody can see this. It is like they are blind to it. This kid is an idiot and decided to meet someone he did not know because he has no friends in reality. Use your damn head and do NOT meet people over the Internet. kthxbai
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Chill out =p
I know my parents repeatedly told me not to meet anyone over the net, not to give them my name/number/address etc. There are posters in schools and stuff about it too. I don't think you can really expect someone of any age to intrinsically know not to meet people on the net- there's no genetically encoded message. =p If anything, blame the 14 year old's parents for not monitoring or warning the kid about the dangers of the internets. | |
I heard something about some hackers gonna shut down Myspace.
I think something bad will happen to Myspace. But I don't think something bad will happen because I think I heard that the owners from Google own Myspace too. I will try my best and become a hacker and haxx Myspace, and den evury1 will use my utility, "GreviouSpace". Bwhahaahaaaaa. | |
90% of people on myspace have a myspace made up of their name(Fake example of my name: "XxTyler_X_WilsonxX"), so it's not hard to add them =/
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I heard something about some hackers gonna shut down Myspace. News Corp. owns MySpace now. That's right, the same people that own Fox Broadcasting. I'm sure they have tons of security put in place. I think something bad will happen to Myspace. But I don't think something bad will happen because I think I heard that the owners from Google own Myspace too. No. See above. | |
One of these days, a pedophile is going to meet up with someone from BYOND, and than what?
Like someone stated before, pedophiles have been around since long before myspace. Myspace is *not* a pedophile sanctuary/heaven/whatever. 98% of the people who use it are just like me, just want to keep in touch with friends. Riddle me this, if a pedophile uses a car to get from his location, to his victims, does that make cars bad? Say he used AIM or MSN to talk with the victom, does that make them bad? Oh wait, heres my favorite one, if a pedophile lives in australia, or canada, or england, or america, does that make them bad? I mean, living in any of those places gives them instant access to little children. Living anywhere gives them direct access to little children, apart from prison. Be reasonable people, you make yourself look stupid when you call myspace a pedophile heaven, just because it was *one of many* tools used in his horrible act. That said, im outy. | |
CavernYou know, e'mail exists for a reason. You don't need myspace to stay in touch with friends. MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo! plus a list of a whole lot of others can be used. And they are generally safer because you have to approve the e'mail before they can contact you. The longest internet friend I've had is about: 5 years and counting actually. And we never used MySpace or a system like it to keep in contact. MSN Messenger has always done that job. And it's alot easier for the fact you can converse in realtime. Children of 14 aren't the ones at fault. They're young, with age comes wisdom, so they're stupid too. When I was 14, I thought everyone in the world was my friend and willing to help me when ever possible. MySpace is a paedofile heaven because it makes things so much easier. It's like a park full of kids with no parents watching. A concentrated amount of younger people, who aren't all that bright no less, this just makes the job so much easier. All you have to do is sweet talk the child and you're in. Not exactaly something that difficult there. It's a broad community, so it's much harder to keep users safe. Unlike BYOND, a much smaller community, so it's not very easy for one person to get away without another person finding out. Any anyone who has a major hissyfit at me because they're a MySpace fanboy, has a real problem with the actual fact of reality. And just for the reccord, this isn't the first case of a paedophile meeting a child using MySpace. It was all over the news a while ago at some point. It's a concentrated amount of young children. And parents who aren't up there with security. Not every parent knows the internet is a bad place. My mother only knows how to use Ebay. That's about it. She knows nothing more of the internet outside that one website and the Start Page I made for the network. -- The 14 year olds who are getting pulled into it also have to take responsibility. What do they expect when interacting with a much older male? A tea party? Lying about your age is so much easier then it seems. -- Well the internet in general is pedophile heaven, but people still use it. >_> The internet in general is a source of information. Keeping pedohiles away isn't easy. Monitor private messages sent between users etc. Enforce the whole "Don't meet people from the internet" message all over your website. It's the creators responsibility. A simple disclamer wont do the job, not very many people even read them. I know for a fact, a younger child, who is eager to join teh intaweb, wont pay attention to a single disclamer on the signup screen. -- Why would a 14 year-old talk to someone he does not know over MySpace? Let alone MEET him? It is not anyone elses fault but his own. It's the childs fault for accepting, not the hunters fault for offering? -- Now just think of all the cases that haven't been caught... Even more so. There is bound to be plenty of times a child has gone away, and come home (if they came home) a little more mentally disturbed. I wonder how many missing persons reccords there are of younger children. -- One of these days, a pedophile is going to meet up with someone from BYOND, and than what? Although not impossible, it's alot more improbable. BYOND is a small community. It's not very easy for someone to do that without someone else finding out first and telling the proper authorities. It's damn near impossible in the games themselves. The only real way a user can do it is the pager. -- Why would a pedophile need Myspace to pick up little boys rather than just getting one from off the streets? There are hundreds of people roaming the streets. Someone is going to notice, or see your vehicle colour or something. Arranging a meeting gives the trust thing. So the kid can be told to meet up at a more secluded location and then taken. Far less chance of people seeing what's going on. -- You have to be careful everywhere on the Internet The website creaters should enforce the whole "don't meet people online" thing. They should add it in several easy noticible places. Even in the occasional banner add. Hell, find a website designed to keep children safe from the dangers of the internet and see if you can affiliate with them. -- It's quite ironic really. Not very many people in my school have a MySpace at all. I don't know of anyone in year 12 with one. The most I know of is a few of us have last.fm accounts. -- One more thing. Cavern - You're allowed to express your opinion, but I'm not allowed to express mine? We're in a fair playing field on this argument. If you can't control yourself, I'll remove you from the argument. Simple as that. I'm entitled to my opinion, just the same as you are yours. What's really funny. Two sentences, one a fact and one a rehortical question, can spur such a responce from the community. =D | |
Okey, let's do the math here.
112512674 people on toms friend list alone. 9/10ths of the people on myspace remove tom as a friend the minute they join. so lets multiply toms friends by, lets say 6, and give you the benifit of the doubt. 675,076,044 users. That's a rough estimate of the people who use myspace. How many pedophiles have been caught? The number has to be less than 500 (once again, I am giving you the benifit of the doubt, becuase I reall don't know the number.), otherwise it would be all over the news, all the time (which it isn't). Think about it logically for a second tib, if there were so many pedophiles on myspace, than that number would be so much greater. Listen to what your saying for a second... | |
Lying about your age is so much easier then it seems. So your saying that it isnt possible to the child to know beforehand. Because last time I checked you actually have to see someone in order to recognize them. Who would let an uninvited stranger into their home or meet them without even having a glimpse of their apperance beforehand? Thats exactly what I mean by taking responsibility. You can defend your arguement all you want but it doesnt change the fact that pedophiles exist MySpace or not. And for the record I dont use MySpace. Just because your Anti-Social doesn't mean the rest of the population has to be. | |
Trick them with a fake photo. Then nab them when they reach your door. You invite them to your place. It's quite easy if you put some thought to it.
-- And I'm not anti-social. If internet friends count as being social. I have 71 contacts on MSN. 49 fans on BYOND and 32 people on my pager. Not using a website and not liking a website doesn't make a person anti-social. | |
Tiberath, I never said you could not express your opinion. I know, it came out that way. My bad. The fact of the matter is, you are talking about Internet friends. I have friends in reality that I want to keep in contact with. I hate E-Mail. Too much spam. I hate filters, it is a pain in the ass to filter out every E-Mail you do not want. I do not want to deal with it. So, instead, I use MySpace. Fun, quick, and easy. Very easy might I add. Just write a comment and press send. It is much cleaner than E-Mail, works faster, better, has more capabilities, and you can put up images of your friends and good times that you have had at parties and the like. Sure, E-Mail can do some of these things but it does not do it like MySpace can. MySpace is meant for keeping in touch with friends. Not for pedaphiles. Just because pedaphiles came along and decided to be freaks does not mean you have to hate MySpace. MySpace was a brilliant idea. I also use Facebook. No pedaphiles there. Atleast not yet. =P But think about it, the news only reports bad things, not good things. Do you think you are going to see on CNN or Fox News, "this just in, a pedaphile did not try and kidnap a little boy today." No, they only talk about when it does happen. Which was like three times.
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Tiberath - You keep ignoring the points of my posts completely. Do you never check who is at your door before opening it? Why can't you just admit the truth of the situation and stop making excuses for the children who don't take any responsibility to it.
And sorry if I offended you about being Anti-Social. It was a serious question since I know most young people these days may be. Social just means interacting with other people, whether they be online or in person. But as Cavern has pointed out, MySpace is used mainly for staying in touch with close friends, relatives, etc. Though I dont really need MySpace for that since I know how to use a phone but there are some situations that dont allow that. This is where MySpace comes in. What we're basically telling you is that your taking something that had good intentions and making it bad. This can be done with anything. Hell, statistics show that thousands of people are mugged in subway train stations yearly. Not the same people everytime but you get the point. Does that mean they should stop using the only available transportation which allows them to get to where they need to go? No. If you want to place blame on anyone, place it on the government for not taking such actions to prevent these type of things from happening. The laws we have now a days only go so far. | |
Tiberath spaketh:
It's quite ironic really. Not very many people in my school have a MySpace at all. I don't know of anyone in year 12 with one. Loads of people from my old school have one. Even people who left the school 30 years ago have one, heh. Trick them with a fake photo. Then nab them when they reach your door. You invite them to your place. Funny how Tiberath seems to be this expert on how to pick up and rape little kids. =P | |
Elation wrote:
Funny how Tiberath seems to be this expert on how to pick up and rape little kids. =P lol | |