Comments on: Myspace and the youth leader http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:00:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: susan http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15140 susan Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:16:00 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15140 I have a 16 yr old on MYSPACE,and to my horror looking at the site I have a 16 yr old on MYSPACE,and to my horror looking at the site

]]> By: Bobby http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15139 Bobby Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:00:34 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15139 I think that myspace is a place where people go when their bored, or need to have some fun or to meet new people. It's not a daycare! Myspace shouldn't have to moniter what your teens/kids are doing on there. You should. On the raunchy stuff part, I think you have a right to put whatever you want on your myspace, that is why it is called myspace and if someone dosen't like it then they can stay off your page or not go on it at all... To the youth group leader , I think you did the right thing.. :-) I think that myspace is a place where people
go when their bored, or need to have some fun or to meet new people.
It’s not a daycare! Myspace shouldn’t have to moniter what
your teens/kids are doing on there. You should.
On the raunchy stuff part, I think you have a right to
put whatever you want on your myspace, that is why it is called myspace
and if someone dosen’t like it then they can stay off your page or
not go on it at all…
To the youth group leader , I think you did the right thing..
:-)

]]> By: barb http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15138 barb Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:46:20 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15138 I had a MySpace account. It was actually the thing that turned me onto blogging because part of the page you get includes a (very) rudimentary blog and at the time I barely knew what a blog was. I got more into the blog part than anything else and soon figured out that if that's what I was into there were lots better platforms to use than MySpace. (Typepad being one of the best) but I always left my MySpace profile up as sort of a free advert pointing to my blog, <a href="www.luckywhitegirl.com" rel="nofollow">Lucky White Girl</a>. I met a few cool,activist type folks on there but this morning I heard this headline: "7 girls sexually assaulted by men they men on MySpace" and I thought about how I'm NOT anonymous on my blog and I DO live in a small town... so this morning I cancelled my membership. It's not worth it. I had a MySpace account. It was actually the thing that turned me onto blogging because part of the page you get includes a (very) rudimentary blog and at the time I barely knew what a blog was. I got more into the blog part than anything else and soon figured out that if that’s what I was into there were lots better platforms to use than MySpace. (Typepad being one of the best) but I always left my MySpace profile up as sort of a free advert pointing to my blog, Lucky White Girl.

I met a few cool,activist type folks on there but this morning I heard this headline: “7 girls sexually assaulted by men they men on MySpace” and I thought about how I’m NOT anonymous on my blog and I DO live in a small town… so this morning I cancelled my membership. It’s not worth it.

]]> By: IT http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15137 IT Fri, 03 Feb 2006 03:14:33 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15137 I know of at least one case where a 30-something guy struck up a convo with a teenager who posted alluring pics, and then started to proposition her, ask for porno photos, send her dirty texts. It's a problem and the kids don't seem to understand that they are really flirting with danger, telling these pervs everything about themselves. And they just don't get it.... They are growing up way too fast in some ways, but with vastly less sophistication and sense in others. I know of at least one case where a 30-something guy struck up a convo with a teenager who posted alluring pics, and then started to proposition her, ask for porno photos, send her dirty texts. It’s a problem and the kids don’t seem to understand that they are really flirting with danger, telling these pervs everything about themselves. And they just don’t get it….

They are growing up way too fast in some ways, but with vastly less sophistication and sense in others.

]]> By: Hugo http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15136 Hugo Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:02:56 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15136 <em> I think you were very wise to withdraw, Hugo. I wonder what the heck your teens were thinking.</em> I'm not sure they were thinking about the fact that I would now be witnessing this aspect of their lives. Or perhaps they wanted me to see it and validate it. Who knows. I think you were very wise to withdraw, Hugo. I wonder what the heck your teens were thinking.

I’m not sure they were thinking about the fact that I would now be witnessing this aspect of their lives. Or perhaps they wanted me to see it and validate it. Who knows.

]]> By: mythago http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15135 mythago Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:43:02 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15135 <i>I think that starting in about 20 years we're going to see kids' myspace antics come back to bite them when they are running for office or up for a judgeship.</i> Nah. It'll be like having a geeky yearbook picture. When everybody did it, who ares if you did? I think you were very wise to withdraw, Hugo. I wonder what the heck your teens were thinking. I think that starting in about 20 years we’re going to see kids’ myspace antics come back to bite them when they are running for office or up for a judgeship.

Nah. It’ll be like having a geeky yearbook picture. When everybody did it, who ares if you did?

I think you were very wise to withdraw, Hugo. I wonder what the heck your teens were thinking.

]]> By: sparklegirl http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15134 sparklegirl Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:06:28 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15134 That's so true, HF. I use Facebook, which is much less sketchy than MySpace (only people at your school or people you've friended can see your profile, and people don't usually post anything worse than references to alcohol and pot, or listing "sex" as an interest, usually jokingly), and I read recently that employers have started checking students' Facebook profiles before hiring them. Apparently one girl's grandmother somehow found out that she had a reference to pot posted on her Facebook profile as well. I think it's silly that people can be denied a job for such little things as posting pictures of themselves holding beer cans while under 21 (I mean, who really believes that most college students don't drink at all? It's not the same as the 14-year old kids on MySpace), but I've been careful with what I put on my profile in case a future employer might see it, and I have some friends who won't sign up for Facebook at all because they're worried about that. That’s so true, HF. I use Facebook, which is much less sketchy than MySpace (only people at your school or people you’ve friended can see your profile, and people don’t usually post anything worse than references to alcohol and pot, or listing “sex” as an interest, usually jokingly), and I read recently that employers have started checking students’ Facebook profiles before hiring them. Apparently one girl’s grandmother somehow found out that she had a reference to pot posted on her Facebook profile as well.

I think it’s silly that people can be denied a job for such little things as posting pictures of themselves holding beer cans while under 21 (I mean, who really believes that most college students don’t drink at all? It’s not the same as the 14-year old kids on MySpace), but I’ve been careful with what I put on my profile in case a future employer might see it, and I have some friends who won’t sign up for Facebook at all because they’re worried about that.

]]> By: Hugo http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15133 Hugo Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:59:46 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15133 It's certainly true that they don't fully grasp the power of the "wayback machine" and other devices that archive absolutely everything! It’s certainly true that they don’t fully grasp the power of the “wayback machine” and other devices that archive absolutely everything!

]]> By: The Happy Feminist http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15132 The Happy Feminist Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:55:36 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15132 I think that starting in about 20 years we're going to see kids' myspace antics come back to bite them when they are running for office or up for a judgeship. I think that starting in about 20 years we’re going to see kids’ myspace antics come back to bite them when they are running for office or up for a judgeship.

]]> By: Barbara http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15131 Barbara Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:02:00 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/02/02/myspace-and-the-youth-leader/#comment-15131 What used to be limited to the outsized fantasy of youthful imagination is now being posted on the web. Some of these students, particularly the girls (it seems to me, anyway) are completely clueless about appropriate boundaries and the image they are conveying. You are wise, wise, wise to withdraw your participation. Although I don't think myspace was the only connection, a female freshman in my neck of the woods was allegedly killed by her 37 year old boyfriend, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot of myspace evidence that's going to get introduced at trial. What used to be limited to the outsized fantasy of youthful imagination is now being posted on the web. Some of these students, particularly the girls (it seems to me, anyway) are completely clueless about appropriate boundaries and the image they are conveying.

You are wise, wise, wise to withdraw your participation. Although I don’t think myspace was the only connection, a female freshman in my neck of the woods was allegedly killed by her 37 year old boyfriend, and I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of myspace evidence that’s going to get introduced at trial.

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