I have read several of the linked articles. I'm having a little trouble understanding how people find library MYSPACE pages by chance. It seems that a library would need lots of publicity for blogs and networking pages to be worthwhile. Do these sites encourage reading? If it's getting people to talk about books, then that's a good thing. Also I understand teens must be 14 to get accounts. How is the age checked? What teen would say they're 12 if they want to get a page?
My children have MYSPACE pages (they're adults). They like them because they've been able to reconnect with long lost friends from early school years. They might never have found some of these people.
One of the articles really downplayed the incidences of sexual predators on these sites. Even if it is a small percentage, it seems it's still something to consider.
Why not talk to people in person that you know, and meet new people that way? Are people so lonely that they have to meet people on a computer?
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