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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May 16th, 2007 20:49
haha its easy to get on bebo and any website you like just go through a proxy site and all that means is it by passes the filters i use it at skwl al the tym and they cant do anything about it…..
try it go on a proxy such as http://www.4proxy.com or kproxy.com or vtunnel.com its easy just google “proxy” and they wll come up.
if you have any questions ask me on bebo http://my–name–is–ste.bebo.com/
May 16th, 2007 19:50
hoo noes how to get on bebo?x
May 16th, 2007 19:49
Skeenx
May 16th, 2007 19:12
omg!!! their is no point in evevn tryin 2 go on bebo n msn n tht at skool i ave tryed everythink! n its all blocked it takes the piss! if ne1 2dai finds a wai of gettin on them plz emaile meh on sammyw12@hotmail.com tnks [x]p[x]p[x]p[x]
May 16th, 2007 18:46
oi oi u sexy bs how u doin lol
May 16th, 2007 18:44
hi
May 15th, 2007 00:32
i want to un lock myspace from my school
May 12th, 2007 23:37
fuck thiz school is so boring unblock myspace
May 11th, 2007 23:23
plz unblock bebo in skl it is shit and i am soooooooooo brd without it
May 11th, 2007 07:39
please unbock bebo i realy need it i dont have the net at home and the only time i can get on bebo is at skool plz plz plz unblock bebo…plz:)
May 10th, 2007 18:09
please unblock bebo becuase it is like well boring in skool
May 7th, 2007 23:24
plezzz unblocke it schools so boring without it
May 3rd, 2007 04:48
Unblock websites such as myspace, bebo, etc
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Unlock email
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May 3rd, 2007 02:20
ok well i think you all are gay cuz myspace isn’t cool anymore its oldskool yo. i think they should unblock it so you bitchs will SHUT the fuck up =]
May 1st, 2007 16:12
can u let me into this site pleese
May 1st, 2007 03:08
man in so bored cause they block myspace in the school can u email me so that you cAN TELL ME HOW TO UNLOCK THE WEBSITE EMAIL ME AS SOON SA POSSIBLE PLEASE
April 30th, 2007 08:40
hay i really wanna go on to bebo at school, but they have locks on the bebo websight, can you please send me some codes or some websights that will allow me into bebo and myspace!!
April 27th, 2007 18:00
why does bebo have to be blocked how else are we meant to contact our friends if we are in boarding houses because we arent allowed to call them and i dont have a phone. and dont say maybe i shud get one because they waste money. why cant the government do something to make the site more safe for viruses to not come in?
please try something because we have nothing to do and i hate living with so many rules in class and out of class i dont even have this many rules at home and my parents are strict
so think about it!
April 27th, 2007 09:45
please give me a website for bebo
April 26th, 2007 18:20
please unlock bebo
April 24th, 2007 04:04
O please someone please help me unblock myspace i tried all possible but cant!!!!!!
April 21st, 2007 01:58
please….unlock bebo its boring w out it!plaese…
April 20th, 2007 22:20
unblock all websites im soooooooooo brd in dis class room all da cameras r lookin at our pcs so they no we r on erm UNBLOCK DEM plz??
April 18th, 2007 01:07
hey i am trying to find coeds for myspace when i am in school but i cant and i need help so if u get anythin e-mail me
April 12th, 2007 03:33
hey im try 2 un block myspace but i cant i need help HELP ME message me if ull found a way