MySpace has over three hundred million users on its social network; adults, teenagers, and young children. After the Megan Meier MySpace hoax many parents became increasingly concerned about the safety of their young children and teenagers using not only MySpace, …[Continue]
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Protecting Your Children From Being Victims from Social Networking Hoaxes
Social networking has become one of the most popular ways to find friends, family, and form new relationships with people all over the world. You can use social networks to write journal entries, post pictures for family and friends to …[Continue]
How this MySpace Hoax Affected Safety Policies and Law in Social Networking
Social networking is a term used to describe a recent trend in websites which has also been referred to as an online community. There are many things users can do at these online communities like post journals, find friends and …[Continue]
How the Megan Meier Suicide Affected Other MySpace Users
MySpace is one of many social networking web sites on the Internet today that over seventy million people use. Social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have made it so that people all over the world can find friends …[Continue]
A Brief Look at the Effects of the Megan Meier MySpace Suicide
Many people have been weighing the pros and cons about social networking ever since the Megan Meier hoax on MySpace in 2006. MySpace has faced some serious scrutiny as to safety measures that need to be taken in order for …[Continue]
Why Texas Held Out on the Safety Deal with Facebook
The second largest social networking web site has agreed to raise the bar on their safety measures in order to better protect its users. It has come to this agreement with forty nine of the states and the District of …[Continue]
What is Facebook Doing to Raise the Safety Bar?
Facebook is the second largest network in the world and security has been a big issue. Since users of Facebook range from children to adults, figuring out how to provide better security for its users has been an important and …[Continue]
Industry Norms for Social Networking
Social network users that sign up and register for accounts in social networks do so with the understanding that they are posting information that other people may or may not access, depending on how well they understand the privacy policies …[Continue]