Is myspace bad?

Answer 1

no it's a cool website to email friends and look at other friends websites

Answer 2

It depends on how you use it. I believe that ppl should only use myspace for keeping in touch, as a personal website and not to let it become something you check every hour or to log on at work or school. When you start using it for dating or if you're in a relationship and start using it to hide online relationships then that's what gets you in trouble. As for stalkers and online predators, it's not hard to delete a message from someone that you've never met in person more that once and of course never displaying your address, phone #, etc. I would also not use it if the people on your friends list are immature and start getting mad just because you don't leave them in comment or they're not in your top [insert number here]. I have several friends who have, I know it sounds pathetic, who broke up w/ their significant other or cheated on someone or even stopped being friends w/ someone just because of how they used their myspace or who's picture was or was not on their myspace.

Answer 3

MySpace is not bad as long as people use it wisely. Parents need to know what their kids are doing on the internet at all times and look at their kids MySpace and other web pages regularly. If you are a parent trying to protect your child things to look for is are they lying about their age? Pictures should not show identity, school name, and the like. Their last name and places they frequent should not be listed on the page nor should it be shown in a picture. If they have comments from alot of older people you don't know or any personal like comments from people you don't know you need to talk to your child about this and find out who the person is and meet them. This stuff pretty much goes for everyone not just kids. Don't tell people on your page where you are going to be Friday night! Or (this is why I made my husband mark his private) where you are going to drop your kid off at a certain time every day! Just use common sense and you will be safe. MySpace is a great place for adults to reconnect with people. My husband and I have rekindled friendships from high school through MySpace. I have to say I am partial to all this since my husband and I reconnected through Classmates.com, and I met my mom's husband on a chat program (um that is a long story and it was good my mom was checking up on me!) Since I was 14 at the time she made me teach her how to use the program and they fell in love. (again he is not a weirdo or anything to be chatting w/ a teenager... LONG story!!)

Answer 4

I love myspace. Just dont put too much personal info on there and set your profile so only your friends can see and it cant go bad at all.

Answer 5

If you are under 18 and post all types of personal info, yes. That is how the pervs keep a fresh supply of young kids. When you post " I'm 14, a girl, love to party, I go to Whatever HS in Wherever, State, and I like to hang out at Barney's Arcade ect......." Then it is a bad thing. For adults, a pain in the butt somedays, but not overly bad.

Answer 6

Sing it, Wesley!

While I may not be a LJ/Facebook/MySpace user myself, I believe it is fine unless you put your personal info or there or talk to strangers. Honestly, if you get sexually assaulted by someone you met through MySpace, I feel you deserve it, or at least you had it coming for being so retarded. In fact, I feel they don't deserve life.

Answer 7

Myspace is the best thing that happened to the internet. Its great for meeting people from all over the world.

I think people should stop being wary of the negative hype and stop blaming myspace for it and start blaming parents for not monitoring what their children are doing.

It's great for musicians to spread their music, great for bloggers, great videos and NOW you can put up to 300 pictures in your picture section!

Even our US Marines are using it to recruit people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14007210/

Answer 8

No, but some people who use it are. Thats where any problems with myspace come from. Read this:


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. To this I say bull! 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 fing 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.. Parents, 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. So please, have some common sense, and repost this .

Answer 9

Not if you don't let it become bad! Set your privacy settings so nobody can see your actual page unless you accepted them in as a friend. Also, check off no picture forwarding on it.

Answer 10

Yes, from all the girls that have been raped or sexually harrased I have no need to go on there even if my friendds have pages. It's tempting but why would I want to put myslef in that kind of situation.