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Be Careful with What You Say! |
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It is amazing how what we say on social networks like MySpace affect the actions and thoughts of others. Recently that has been made clear when a federal grand jury subpoenaed records, and representatives of the social network with regards to the impersonation of a young boy by a child’s mother named Lori Drew.
Apparently while impersonating a young boy she rejected the teenage neighbor of 13. Afterward Megan Meier the teenage neighbor committed suicide.
Some people and especially teenagers really take opinions expressed on MySpace seriously and we should watch what we post and write.
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Politics and MySpace! |
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Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are becoming important even to politicians. This demonstrates that politics is also going digital. MySpace even has virtual polling booths were more than 150,000 people visited on Jan. 1 and 2nd. Imagine the technology needed to be able to verify only one ballot per user, and no robots!
The results were surprising with Barack Obama leading with 46% and Hillary Clinton down to 36% and the Republican favorite being Ron Paul. This doesn’t mean that politicians will win or lose because of social networks like MySpace, but it does show how influential the sites can be.
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Get the Sex Offenders Off! |
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Caused by the proliferate use of MySpace by the many sex offenders, the Attorney General for Indiana has proposed a new law to keep these people off of the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Although the idea has its merits, it is still difficult to see how such a law would be imposed. It is said that the sex offenders would be required to register his username and email address to authorities.
The problem is that these laws are too easy to bypass. What is to stop the sex offender from creating another email address and username, or from using several email addresses at the same time?
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Celebs are MySpace Members Too! |
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Today even the Celebs make MySpace their new home. MySpace has launched a new channel called celebrity.myspace.com and lets the millions of MySpace users have access to the personal pages of some of their favorite actors, athletes and musicians.
Now you can see what your favorite Celebs truly have to say. This is a new marketing tool which will bring a great deal of PR for these celebs. MySpace expect the channel to bring in big advertising $ and serve as a way of promoting both films and TV
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Cute as Can Be! |
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For all of you that post profiles on MySpace 123Greetings will offer a Valentines Day widget that you can use to decorate your profile page. These cute Valentines day widgets let you celebrate valentines day by decorating a miniature valentine with glitter, glitzy rhinestones and lace.
This will be the first that of many that will appear to help celebrate different holidays. All you have to do to post them is copy and paste the small snippet of code that accompanies them. These are really cute and fun, and are only meant to be that. Just a cute decoration you can use on your persona space.
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Be Careful when using MySpace |
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The bad guys are out to get us again! When using MySpace there is another reason to keep your virus protection, and security updates up to speed, someone is using hacked MySpace profiles to make victims download a Trojan Horse and disguising it as a Microsoft update.
Although it does not seem to be proliferate, McAfee has only seen one MySpace profile that has done this, but it is situations like this that show us how sites like MySpace can be vulnerable to criminals.
When surfing on MySpace a window pops up telling the user to download a Microsoft windows Malicious software removal too, afterwards an image appears on the whole of the computer screen and when the user clicks anywhere on the image the Trojan Horse begins to download.
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