MySpace.com: 200 Million And Counting

MySpace.com's online community rose to 106 million users during the Fall of 2006 and has been on the incline ever since, but not without a few bumps along the way.

With more and more "tweens" and aspiring muscisians worldwide accessing MySpace daily-an estimated 200 million in recent weeks, the amount of legal work for its creator and everyone's friend, Tom is on the rise as well.

PCWorld.com reported that in 2005, a North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation arrested a police officer for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl he lured using MySpace.

In 2006, MySpace took measures to avoid future scrutiny for incidents of this kind by hiring a technical company.

Through this innovative technology, we're pleased that we've successfully identified and deleted these registered sex offenders and hope that other social networking sites follow our lead.

Upon reaching this stage in online life when extreme legal action must be taken in order to protect ourselves and importantly our children, alarms should ring loud and clear in households worldwide.

Southwest News Herald's online columnist Ray Hanania pins the tail on the donkey in his August 27, 2007 column, Big Problem on MySpace.com is not pedophiles

The real problem is not the pedophiles and con artists trying to steal your money. The real problem is us, the regular people, who let this happen by running away from the problem – and then sitting back at home and allowing ourselves to be entertained by shows like "To Catch a Predator." We need to take back the system. We, as a society, need to impose the correct morality and the right principles and restore common sense to our lives, instead of always only reacting after-the-fact. Because responding after-the-fact results in an over-reaction. Take back the Internet. But more importantly, take control of your children. Your child, whether an adolescent or a high school or college student should be on the Internet using MySpace and FaceBook., but they should be doing it the right way. And, the right way is with parental supervision. Know what your child is doing. Get involved. Understand the Internet. And the best way to understand the Internet is to get involved and use it. If you have a child and you have not checked these web sites to see if your child is already there posting obscene photographs, then yes, we can blame the pedophiles and the con artists. But really, the bulk of the blame belongs on you.

A simple click and "Signing Up!" for MySpace will take users inside a big bad world of people, people they do not even know or will probably never know and access to their personal information and inappropriate activites. Despite cautionary warnings, users continue to keep their front doors wide open. Exposing themselves to hundreds of millions of strangers and countless risks each day.

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