
My own teenage daughter must have
missed the memo on myspace is a perve wasteland. Yikes! trouble big trouble in space. I made a profile for my own reasons filled with lies and half truths and some humor.
In a very short time, I started receiving requests from bands asking for acceptance as a friend. I thought to myself yeah, what-ever floats their boats, it didn't really matter. At first I accepted anyone and everyone who send a request. Little did I know how crazy it all gets.
I started getting bombarded with bulletins from one death rock, genre fan who kept making bulletins every 30 minutes all day. Rather annoying to have to go three pages deep to view my own child's bulletins. Go death and Satan stuff! - What-ever! I ended up removing the person as a friend. They would never know with 2 thousand friends how could they figure it out to cry about de-linking or de-friending later.
I started to get requests from underage boys. Then the emails and the bulletins came to make any parent just cringe. Just as scary was the underage girls listed as their friends on their profiles half naked pictures with statements like they party and drink.
One boy under 17 years old had pictures of himself with syringes and blood looking make-up on his face. He said he was a model, he would meet anyone who would help him in his career to be a model. He posted a portfolio of sorts made obviously with the mirror. Yikes! I removed him as a friend when he made a bulletin come to my profile to see me naked.
Another boy indicating he was under 18 years old was asking for mature woman to be his mistress. He would make bulletins asking for women to train him in the world of dom- submissiveness and him be a sex slave. He too I removed as a friend.
Rather disgusted with underage boys and their sexual desires I made a disclaimer that I wouldn't accept underage boys as friends. A couple of things came of it.
I noticed all of a sudden the boys that were already in my friend list not yet removed all of a sudden made themselves 2 years old to make it read 18. At the same time I was making this stand, a person in my friend list was making bulletins he would remove all underage girls from his list. We compared notes on the responses and the edits the children were making.
We both experienced under age children crying for the de-friending or editing of their profiles. He clearly stated in his profile and in bulletins his blogging is not intended for girls under 18, it had sexual content. We really shared the information with each other. Sharing how these kids are having half naked or naked pictures of themselves as the default picture .
He shared how he found out later his daughter had a fake ID when she was 16 to show she was older, his daughter now over 21.
We discussed how scary it is as parents. Many of these kids post what schools they go to including city and state names. Some I have found post phone numbers and addresses as well and exactly the locations they hang out.
Kids are stupid! They might change the age but they forget to edit everything else. Its not hard to do the math and figure out the start date of the high school the are listing and when they say they are going to graduate. Hmm, it is quite odd when a person says they are 18 but indicates they won't graduate from their high school until 2008. All their favorite shows and tv revolves around teenagers or cartoons and video games where they hang out is teenage places. When their posts mention high school subjects and issues well its kind of a dead give away.
I don't know what is scarier, a teenager posting half naked pictures flirting around and indicating their sexual desires and little party animals, or it might be a setup from law enforcement. It's a gross and disguisting game either way and I will have no part in. What the hell would I do with anyone under the age of 21 in any capacity. I have no intention of ever meeting anyone of any age through myspace p-l-e-a-s-e!
The exception only being people I have personally known and happen to have profile there.
Myspace is a sucky space for perve and little ones who want to be pervs or to be perved.