Myspace: A place for perverts

Last night, NBC 10 had an “education session” for parents to teach them how to snoop on their kids. They told them all about monitoring software and Myspace and Facebook and maybe even told them how to read their kids’ diaries. I don’t know.

Anyway, according to the privacy expert NBC 10 interviewed, the Internet is a scary, scary place. For example, Myspace is “an Internet site where teens think they’re harmlessly posting their innermost thoughts and feelings to friends, but experts say they are unwittingly exposing themselves to pedophiles, stalkers and perverts.”

Indeed! The worst idea for kids, according to Internet safety expert Parry Aftab, is to post a photo online:

The only problem is she’s posted a picture. The detective recommends she take it down.

“Photos are used to manipulate and put on naked bodies. They put horns on them,” Aftab said.

Predators and online bullies can manipulate, copy and print pictures in an instant.

Indeed! Just look what I was able to do in an instant to wonderfully tan Good Day Philadelphia reporter Steve Keeley! He’ll never get another job now!

Parents Find Teens Revealing Information Online [NBC 10]