My son's friend created him a MySpace account. What can I do?

Question

I want it deleted. We do not have internet at home and he can not get on it at school. There is no reason for my son to have this account. To make matters worse I have told this little girl and her mother that I want her to delete it and she is now claiming to not remember the password she used to set up the account. My fear is that she can pose as my son and make up anything she wants to. I know nothing about MySpace and can not get to it through the filter here at work so it really is making me frustrated. Any help would be appreciated!

I need to express to everyone that my son is 12 years old and this little girl made him the account. My son has no clue how to even look at it. We do not have a computer at home and he like myself is not computer savy so could not find out how to do it at school. The point is, this little girl made a MySpace account up in my son's name and I want it deleted but I have no info!!!! When my son does decide he wants a MySpace that is fine. I just do not want the little girl down the street "pretending to be my son".

Answer 1

You don't say how old your son is, but MySpace can be a great way for him to interact with his friends. However, there is an age restriction of 14 years old. I suggest compromising with your son on this, rather than putting your foot down. Perhaps you could cancel his membership and allow him to reopen one under your supervision. Check out this website to help you:

http://www.wiredsafety.org/internet101/myspaceguide.html

There is a lot of good information on this site. Specifically:

How to Delete a MySpace Account Belonging to an Underage Member

As stated earlier, MySpace is subject to many of the same problems that are also inherent to the all other public communication sites. One particular difficulty, which is probably due to its phenomenal popularity, is the fact that some accounts are opened by underage members, in direct violation of their minimum age requirements.

For parents, the procedures for deletion of an underage MySpace account fall into the following two primary categories. Regardless of which method is utilized, the site promises that ALL information contained in a deleted account is purged from the site.

1. A parent decides that a child’s account should be closed, and the child is cooperative, the normal procedures are:

- Logon to MySpace

- Click “Account Settings”

- On the “Change Account Settings” page, click on “-Cancel Account-“

- Click on the “Cancel My Account” button in the confirmation box.

- Include remarks if desired; then click on the second “Cancel My Account” button to complete the request process.

- A cancellation message will be sent to the email address of record. Replying to this email is required in order to complete the automated account closure process.

2. Alternative Account Closure

Unfortunately, in addition to lying about their age, many kids will use a bogus e-mail address when applying for membership, or may profess to have forgotten their passwords. These circumstances can make it virtually impossible to use the process outlined above.

MySpace recognizes this reality and has established special account cancellation procedures. When a parent wishes to close an underage account and either the child is uncooperative, or a technical difficulty precludes the use of the general account closure method, the following procedures can be used.

- The first step involves the parent emailing the site, via the contact form discussed earlier, to request that the subject account be closed. This request SHOULD include the minor’s URL number in the form www.myspace.com/17738440. This information can be located on the left-hand side of the Welcome page that is displayed following initial logon.

If the URL is included in the email, the site will review the account for any definite indications that the account owner is underage. If definite proof IS found, the child’s profile WILL be removed and an email will be sent to the email address on the account explaining WHY the account was deleted. (If there is no indication of the teen being under 14, MySpace.com staff will contact the parent and arrange for a phone verification before canceling the account. See below.)

- If the child’s URL is NOT indicated in the cancellation request, the parent is emailed with a request for the information and that the parent work WITH the child in removing the account through normal cancellation procedures discussed above.

- If a parent cannot convince the child to voluntary remove the account, etc, site personnel will request a contact phone number in order to confirm the parental status of the requestor. Upon successful verification, the minor’s account will be removed while on the phone with the parent.

Some parents or others have tried to shut down accounts of their child’s schoolmates. Although MySpace.com will terminate an account if the page shows that they are really under 14 and have lied about their age when registering, we strongly recommend that you don’t take things into your own hands. Instead of contacting the site, reach out to the other parents, letting them know (if they don’t already) that their child has a page at Myspace.com (or any other similar site or profile). Many parents supervise their child’s account and would not appreciate someone taking things into their own hands. Others want to see what has been posted.

Answer 2

Go to myspace.com and click the "Contact Us" at the bottom. You can report it and get it taken care of. I'm sure they'll cancel the account. I think you have to be at least 14yrs. of age to have an account with myspace. If he is not, easy enough to get cancelled by contacting them. Otherwise, you really have done all you can do. Hopefully your son will respect your wishes. Don't worry about the little girl and her mom, there's nothing more you can do there either. Just get the account cancelled based on being too young.

Answer 3

Talk with him. Your Son should be approached with respect initially. If you can persuade your son of the problems, then removing it will be easy. However, if your so is under a certain age, you can go to myspace and have the Site removed as the parent... thats a legitimate reason

Answer 4

have you sons friends parent block it on their computer internet access. talk with your son then and build trust with him that he won't go against what you believe is wrong and think as it being right. the best way would be to build a two-way trust. trust eachother and you will be able to easily understand eachother and the reasoning behind eachothers actions from the time the trust is built even til a time further down the road.

Answer 5

The Sites policy on this reads EXACTLY as:

[removing your childs profile:]
Please work with your child to remove the account. Once you are logged into MySpace.com, click on 'Account Settings' and then click on 'Cancel Account'. An email will be sent to the email address (the same one used as the login name) to verify Account Deletion.
If you do not receive the confirmation email, please remove all content from your child's profile, and enter in the text 'Remove Profile' in the 'About Me'. This lets us know that you have taken control of your child's account. Please alert us with the URL to the profile in question, and we can remove the profile for you.

The internet can be a fun place for younger users as long as they are safe. We have an entire section dedicated to Safety Tips for parents (and our userbase!) to peruse. Please check them out!



[someone pretending to be you:]
In order to verify your identity, please send us a "salute". This means we will need an image of yourself holding a handwritten sign with the word "MySpace.com" and your Friend ID (your Friend ID number appears immediately after "friendID=" in the web address/URL when viewing your profile). We can then remove the profile that uses your identity without your permission.
Please be sure to include the web address/URL to the profile in question when you send your salute.

If you do not have a profile on MySpace please write in the email address that you are emailing us from instead of your Friend ID.

If the profile is an extremely obvious attempt to be cruel/false, you may not need to send a salute. Sending a salute will help expediate things, though!

Answer 6

What everyone else says...and yes there are ways to bypass the filters in school.

Answer 7

hey hey its fine tell him to tell her to give him the password and after hes in the acount have hime change the password and dont tell any one k