For social networking purposes, sites like Myspace and Facebook are great, and they can also be a great source for companies to mingle with their markets...but there are dangers also that these social sites present.
It's not just that porn peddlers can post on your page, that creepy pervs can laciviously try to proposition adolescents, or that some black market exists where individuals will try to sell everything from viagra to xanax to you.
MySpace can be deadly.
Take the story of Megan Meier. This 13 year old girl is driven to take her life by a psycho pageant mom type who meddles in the lives of middle schoolers. She even is rumored to have started a blogspot called "Megan Had It Coming".
So even though MySpace is Goliath, doesn't it still owe some sort of transparency to the public it serves? Shouldn't there be a way to verify people are who they say? Maybe that is too much to ask, but Rupert Murdoch is a billionaire, you'd think he could make the site at least a little safer.
How do you trust a site that is built on lies? Tom, the MySpace friend who started it all, has lied about his age from day one.
So how do you trust a company that doesn't value honesty, even on trivial matters?
The answer is you can't. Even though this network seems to be an unstoppable beast, it is up to companies and individuals to realize that MySpace is not all good, and probably not the best company to mingle with to promote or publicize a business.
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