A "24" Approach to MySpace Safety
Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:17AM EDT
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Jack Bauer has some words of wisdom for parents and teens about MySpace.
Keifer Sutherland, 24's hero, is at the center of a TV and online ad campaign by News Corp., the owner of Fox TV and MySpace, to improve the popular social networking site's safety outreach.
MySpace is stepping up efforts to spread the word to teens and parents about how to socialize safely on the wildly popular site and avoid the snare of well-disguised online predators.
MySpace has lots of legal reasons for a heightened awareness campaign. Law enforcement officials have been calling on the company to do more to protect teen members. And last month, a parent of a Texas teenager who said she was sexually assaulted by a MySpace user sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., for $30 million in damages.
The social networking site recently tightened some restrictions designed to keep adults from contacting teens. But there remains no way to verify that adults and teens are signing onto MySpace using their true ages.
Sutherland's 20-second spot leads viewers to CommonSense.com, where the nonprofit group Common Sense Media provides Internet safety tips, as well as media reviews for parents. They will run mostly on Fox stations, and online video and banner ads will be found on MySpace, FoxSports.com and AmericanIdol.com, to name a few.
The ads are needed for adults as well as teens, Common Sense Media's chief executive James Steyer told USA Today, because "a lot of older folks have no idea about what their kids are doing on the Internet."
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2 Posted by pmltckr on Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:13AM EDT Report Abuse
I don't blame companies However...our son is not allowed to get on Myspace in our house. He knows this. He is also a teenager who believes that he has all of lifes answers. He will go on Myspace at a friends house in a minute. I have caught him a few times using MySpace in our house. Times like these I insist that he go through his site with me. I also will change his password every chance I get to things like "busted" or "mom". I do all this when he is gone to school but it is my way of letting him know that I am monitoring his activity. So far so good. Angeleyes
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3 Posted by lisa37743 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:53PM EDT Report Abuse
How funny! I do the same thing! I do allow the oldest on myspace- BUT I have all of his passwords, and I watch his friends list like a hawk. I am a myspace addict and I love the site. But I don't trust the deranged people not to harm my kids. I personaly can take care of myself and don't worry about it. I also don't have any pictures of the older kids up in my profile. They are at an age where watching them 24/7 is impossible and they are my stepkids so I can't tell them what to do except on every other weekend- the baby on the other hand is never getting out of my sight.
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1 Posted by lisa37743 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 6:53PM EDT Report Abuse
Stuff like this really bothers me. It's all well and good for people to give hnts as to how to protect your kids from pedators, but what ever happened to parenting? My kids (ages 14, 12, and 5mo) are not allowed on the computer unless an adult in in the room. They can only go to approved sites and they are monitored and blocked from any site that I deem inappropriate. It's time for parents to start being parents and to stop blaming companies and other people for their neglagance.