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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December 11th, 2007 17:43
ive gt a few
nakedproxy.com
xpew.com
mycroc.com
proxyeye.com
proxy88.com
:):)
like everythin as been blocked at my sklw need new ones init
hmmm
x
December 4th, 2007 22:39
PLEASE!!! PLEASE!! UNBLOCK BEBO I CANT STANT LISTENING IN MY LESSON :p
December 4th, 2007 16:23
yeh, and all that fcked up crap about “getting students to concentrate on their work” by blocking bebo.. concentrate my ass, when we’re just tryin to find more ways to get into bebo from school?! yeh, rite..
October 7th, 2007 23:18
try
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http://unblock.w201.100dns.com
http://freego.w201.100dns.com
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October 2nd, 2007 13:59
WHY CANT TEACHERS JUST LETS US GO ONTO THESE WEBSITES WHATS SO BAD ABOUT THEM. I MEAN LOOK AT ALL THOSE POEPLE OUT THERE THAT SONT HAVE A COMPUTER IST ALMOST AS IF TEACHERS ARE LIKING IT TOO BE THAT WAY, [[MR HARRIS]] IS A ARSE && WEE ALL HATE HIS GUTS. BUHT WHY THE FARKS CANT YOU UNBLOCK THEM YOU SELF CENTERED LOW LIFE DROP KICK, GOOD BYE. ALL TEACHERS SHOULD BEE BLOWN UP!
September 18th, 2007 21:53
Iwish you would unlock the website so i can check my mail. That will be really nice if you do so.SO PLEASE UNLOCK BEBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 5th, 2007 18:56
ii cn giv yuu sum websites dat ii have 2 goo on bebo at skwl cuz ii use em bt they got blocked but yuu can use em by all means =]
tavansa.com
bypassinternetfilter.info
thunderunblock.info
betterunblock.info
cloak-surf.com or .info
blockmenot.com
there are a few but ii dnt know if they will work or not =]=]
luv yahhz and leave yahhz..
shez x
August 19th, 2007 06:36
hay guyz ive just read your guys e-mails and all that stuff.
i have a couple of websites for you!
http://www.unlockschool.com
eyepea.info
http://www.unlockbebonow.com
http://www.plood.com
http://www.yellowbanana.cjb.net
http://www.unlock-bebo.net
http://www.unlockmyspacenow.com
http://www.hiddentunnel.com
http://www.schoolunlock.com
http://www.proxyhill.com
http://www.rocketproxy.com
and yeah i got some moore il keep yal updated!
August 7th, 2007 08:23
UNLOCK BEBO u DikZ..pweezzzz
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July 19th, 2007 19:35
plz unblock bebo and my space plz thanx xx
July 14th, 2007 02:26
At my school, we block the proxy sites as well as the social networking sites. This makes it much easier for students to focus on work!
July 9th, 2007 05:49
I like myspace
June 29th, 2007 17:31
how the fuck do u get on bebo lolol
June 28th, 2007 19:08
bebo
June 28th, 2007 09:20
http://www.anotherwayin.com
I’ve found a lot of proxies blocked lately. Here is a fresh one that is so fast. I can’t believe it. Myspace, facebook, it all loads the fastest at
http://www.anotherwayin.com
June 27th, 2007 18:32
need to talk to friends
June 25th, 2007 16:51
I found a lot useful info. Thanks.e
June 25th, 2007 11:56
this is all bull shit.. why do they have to even block all of them….. if any one has an unblocker thingy send it to me =D ill give yu some thing in retern lol
June 22nd, 2007 22:20
i need a new unblocked path 2 facebook at school, email it 2 me at eddylee00@yahoo.com
June 20th, 2007 18:04
i do not understand at all jow bebo is bad! it just a wa of talkin to your friends and meeting new people!! it needs unblocking!!!!!!
June 20th, 2007 02:02
Its not right myspace is not violent its just a way to meet new people and have pictures of u and your friends i dont understand the fact why teachers dont want us on myspace i think the reason is that nobody is going to send them any friend requests i wouldn’t either so they should just unblock it concerning the fact that they betta be happy we come to school and when we done our work for the computer teacher we should be free to go on what ever sight we wanna go on damn.MYSPACE IS NOT HARMFUL UNBLOCK MYSPACE FROM SCHOOL
June 15th, 2007 20:30
I agree with BiDDi3z, exept me it’s for myspace and facebook, my comp at home is fucked up so I can’t do nothing on it for a month and how the hell am I to go and check my god damned messages!!
June 14th, 2007 22:09
how do unlock bebo form school
May 18th, 2007 10:51
Yooh know.. THE ONLY REASON WHY KIDS GO 2 SCHOOL IS SO THEY CAN GO ON BEBO!! BUT SINCE THEY CAN`T COZ DA FUCKED UP COMPUTA TEACHER BLOCKED IT WE CAN`T… SO KIDS ARE STAYING HOME!!! DO YOOH WANT KIDS 2 CUM 2 SCHOOL OR LET YOUR SCHOOL GO DOWN.. COMMON!! UNLOCK BEBO!! “MR HARLOW“ YOOH FAG..:P
May 17th, 2007 20:29
you should please un lock myspace. myspae is so fun and when we cant get on at home we should be able to get on at school.if u unlock myspace people would like to come to school.so please please please unlock myspace.