Protect Your Kids and Safer Way When Using MySpace or Beboo
Social network website such as Bebo, MySpace, Friendster, MyYearBook, Classmates.com, LiveJournal, Xanga, Facebook, Hi5, Joga Bonito, MSN Spaces, Orkut, Yahoo! 360º and growing list of the social networking sites, has increasingly popular and becoming influential part of contemporary pop culture. MySpace, according to Hitwise, has even become the most visited website if counted by page-views in the United States, edging Yahoo! Mail and Google.
However, security issues have also become a bigger consent as most social networking websites such as MySpace allow registering users as young as 14, thus leaving room for children to be exploited by predators, sex maniacs or paedophiles which using the sites to meet children and innocent girls. Other issues include cyber-bullying and privacy as the profile can be found by practically anybody once put online, including potential employer.
CNet Crave has posted a guide on how to protect your children and make sure they stay safe when online at MySpace or Bebo, which should be applicable to other networking sites. The guidelines are:
- Report to the site to take down their profiles if you found your younger children are using Beboo, as the minimum age for Bebo users is 13, and 14 for MySpace.
- Make sure no private information including name, age, address, email address, phone number and photos are given out by your children. A secondary email can be used for Bebo account too, so that if they do have problems they can simply ditch that email address and continue using their main one.
- Educate your children so that they’re aware that people are not always who they seem online, and the dangers of meething someone they’ve met online in person. They should not give out personal information or accept anybody as a friend on their contact list unless they’re real life friends, and should be accompanied by somebody if they insist to meet stranger.
- Make sure of ‘Report Abuse’ on the members’ profile in Bebo, or ‘Contact MySpace’ on the bottom of each page to report potential danger. Or you can report it on the CEOP’s Think U Know Web site.
- Educate your children so that they’re aware of the importance of privacy. Any information they wrote can be found by anybody if they set their homepage to be public thru search engine, including potential employer.
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April 7th, 2007 03:16
i think you should unblock them both cause it do be boring in classes when you on the computer you know man i need to unblock’em like a.s.a.p
April 6th, 2007 23:29
i jus want to kno how do u unblocc it cuh man wen i tell u everything is blocc i mean everything is blocced..but its all gravy 2 da navy tho but help a chicc out
March 31st, 2007 02:33
freakin unblock myspace!!!!! like seriously we do nothing in my comp. tech class so i just have to sit here on the internet with nothing to !!!!
March 24th, 2007 06:14
DAMN I’M TRYING TO UNBLOCK MYSPACE BECUS I AM SOOO BORED HERE AT SKOOL SO IF ANYBODY KNOW HOW PUT IT ON HERE BUT I AINT BOUT TO PUT DOWN MY EMAIL ADDRESS OR STUPID SHIT LIKE DAT. IIGHT THANKS!!!! :-}
March 22nd, 2007 20:27
unlock da f**in myspace cuz i needzsz 2 check ma mail!!! ya’ll lil hoezsz!
March 17th, 2007 09:57
is there anyone even on
March 17th, 2007 09:51
do any of u go to magnolia school
March 14th, 2007 00:19
i am pissed this site did get me on myspace a month ago but now it dosent what the hell is going on ???????
March 8th, 2007 01:30
myspace doesn’t hurt ne one so why should you block it. the only reason why i use myspace is because i can get in contact with most of my friends and most of my relatives in other parts of the country. UNBLOCK IT!
March 3rd, 2007 09:41
i think getting to talk to your friends is cool
March 1st, 2007 18:38
to unblock bebo try http://www.steparound.net then put http://www.bebo.com
February 24th, 2007 00:14
HOW IN F*CK DO YOU UNBLOCK MYSPACE??
I HATE THIS ITS GAY
SCHOOL SHOULD LET YOU GET ON IT IF YOUR BORED AS FUCK AND YOU HAVE NO HOMEWORK
February 23rd, 2007 16:54
there are lot of sites to unblock myspace.
http://www.webviaproxy.com is one option but there are many others
February 23rd, 2007 07:07
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February 21st, 2007 20:49
i think u should unblocke bebo because that is The only way that kids can talk to their friends without getting in trouble and nobody wouldnt date nobody over the internet espically black kids and thats mostly everyone on bebo black kids so can u please please unblock bebo im bebbing you
February 21st, 2007 17:57
FUCKIN UNBLOCK IT!!!!!!
February 21st, 2007 17:23
I FINK YOU SHOULD UNLOCK BEBO COZ I GET BOOORRRRRD AT SCHOOL!!
GOD NOW I DONT AV NUFIN TO DO!!
February 19th, 2007 20:17
plz unblock bebo its doin ma head in.if ani1 gets a syt to go on it email me at cazz31@hotmail.co.uk xxx
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February 13th, 2007 22:52
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February 9th, 2007 15:15
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February 5th, 2007 22:24
y did u block bebo now are skool is crap !!! who ever invented this needs 2 get a life and not make things sooooooo blooody boring
February 2nd, 2007 21:17
i fuckin hate my damn school u should open myspace cause our fuckin school suxs
December 11th, 2006 22:43
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December 11th, 2006 10:54
hey u\please unblock myspace it sux my skool has these weird computer nerds that keep blocking any unblocker sites.