News Corp.’s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security controls. Children as young as 14 can use it, and many of them choose to invent online personas with fictitious information. MySpace is now facing lawsuits from the families of four underage girls who were sexually abused by adults they met on MySpace.
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MySpace to Add Parental Alert System
Posted by: Katherine Noyes January 18, 2007 03:39 PMNews Corp.’s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security controls. Children as young as 14 can use it, and many of them choose to invent online personas with fictitious information. MySpace is now facing lawsuits from the families of four underage girls who were sexually abused by adults they met on MySpace.