do u think its myspaces fault if a kid get raped and they were talkin to the person who raped em on myspace?

Question

cause i see myspace on the news almost everyday

Answer 1

Anybody happen to catch Nightline last night on ABC? In case you didn't, one of the hot topics discussed was MySpace. It is no secret to anyone who reads the newspaper or watches the 6 o'clock news that MySpace has been in the limelight because of "sexual predators" trying to "abduct and corrupt" the youth of the world. That's a bunch of crap! I see dozens of profiles a day showing 14 year old girls dressed like sluts, wearing four inches of make up and 32 layers of eyeliner, displaying their age as 18 years old and profile lines stating "Oh, I'm So Sexy" or "Hey There, Wanna Check Up On It?" Come on! The youth of today's world are already corrupt enough due to the undying need to be "older" than they really are. I seriously doubt there are tons of people on MySpace stalking "innocent young girls" who just happen to have tramped up profiles and ages 4 years greater than their own.

On Nightline, there was a story of a 12 year old girl who was a drug-addict and attributed it all to MySpace. She claims that Myspace allowed her to easily find drug dealers in her area, as well as older men to have sex with her. Now, at the age of 14, she has been checked into a drug-rehabilitation clinic and has been away from her family for 5 months. Her parents would rather place the blame squarely on the shoulders of MySpace instead of their daughter, who even admitted that at the age of 12, had already tried weed, crack, X, and had slept with numerous guys older than herself...but of course, it wasn't her fault, it was all because of MySpace.

One again, COME ON! When are parents and children going to stop passing the blame and grow up enough to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of their children.. Parent;s, monitor your children online, take some responsibility for YOUR children. Children, if a profile name sounds like something that comes out of a cheap horror movie, like "DARK ANGEL OF DEATH WHO EATS THE BRAINS OF GIRLS"...chances are you DO NOT WANT TO ADD THEM AS A FRIEND. Apparently there is new legislation in Congress now to block MySpace in all public schools and public libraries across the United States. All because little girls want to act grown and don't want to accept the consequences and parents don't want to accept the fact that their "innocent little girls" are posing as 18 year old crack whores trying to buy drugs.

Eventually, if this continues, MySpace could be totally outlawed from the Internet. Restrictions will be put in place in order to make MySpace "safer". I don't know about you, but I use MySpace to keep in touch with my family and friends, use it for messages, and just to have a space that is my own. Just because some children want to act grown, does that mean I may have to eventually give up my MySpace? If you feel the same way I do, please, repost this in your blogs or bulletins, or both as "STOP BLAMING MYSPACE". If enough people post this and spread the word, maybe people will get the picture and stop blaming MySpace for every little thing that their children do wrong. As user of MySpace, we should all repost this and take some sort of action. This is not a chain letter, and nothing will happen to you if you don't repost this in 321654987 seconds. However, of all bulletins you will read today, I am sure that this one is the only one that actually has a point to it.


A 14 year old girl, and her mother have filed a law suit against Myspace.com(what?) because she was sexually assaulted by another user. She said he lied by saying he was on the high School football team, and THAT gained her trust. Obvisiously if thats all it took to gain her trust, she easily trust pretty much anybody and anyone. She's suing Myspace.com for $30 million because she believes myspace has poor security. WHAT A CROC! Myspace is not a babysitting service, take responsiblity for your own actions!!! What happened to her is a terrible thing and should never happen to anyone period. Where were her parents? Why are they not held responsible for what thier daughter does in thier own home? Myspace has many many ways of blocking out/screening people, some are: you have to ACCEPT the person you may or may not know as well as deny people you do or do not know, you can have certain sercurity measures added like asking for last name and email address, you can block a person, you can only associate with people you ALREADY know or simply you can NOT be on

Answer 2

No. It's not myspaces fault.
It's all these kids that want attention. They would get in trouble another way if there was no myspace.

Answer 3

No..I don't think it is MySpace's fault. Unless, MySpace was the one that raped the kid. I really don't think you should blame any website for things that occurr to you. If you visit a porn website and it gets you horny. Then, you masterbate and get caught by your parents. Are you going to be stupid enough to say "blame it on those naked girls" No, it was your penis fault.

Answer 4

no and yes....because the kid shouldn't be meeting people off of the web anyway but also they should put a lock on certain age groups so that teens under 18 can't talk to anyone over the age of 18. but then again that wouldn't really work because people lie all the time. But the creators could make the effort.

Answer 5

No its not myspace's fault , they can't be responible for that kinda stuff..Its the parents responibality to make sure they no who there son and/ or daughter are talking too.. take time outta ur busy day if you really care about your kids.

Answer 6

I don't think it's the fault of a website anymore than a suicide can be blamed on music or violence can be blamed on TV or movies. People have to take responsibility for themselves in this life. Parents should know what their children are doing on the internet. Kids should have a little common sense. You can't blame the media for all your problems or for what's going on in the world. We all have a brain and we sbould use it.

Answer 7

It's the fault of the rapist. Secondly it's the fault of the parents not watching their children better. Just because the kid doesn't leave the house does not mean they are safe. I place no real blame on the kid unless their parents had already warned them and told them the basics of saftey on the internet.

Answer 8

No. It's the fault of the rapist and the kid's parents for not being more vigilant. It's also not the fault of Metallica, Marilyn Manson, or Judas Priest when a teen commits suicide based on something heard in one of their songs, and it's not the fault of Smith and Wesson when a gun is used for ill intent.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. That kid's parents should have taught him or her to be more careful about giving out personal information online, and they also should have been monitoring him or her while he/she was chatting with someone that he/she obviously didn't know. It's not a website's fault that parents can't bother to keep an eye on their children.

Answer 10

it is not myspaces fault. kids need to be weary of their surroundings. parents also need to know what their kids are doing and where they are going. the kid had no idea she was going to be raped, and she had no idea that she was meeting a sick pervert.