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Defining MySpace
Myspace.com is a website that offers you a place to post and upload information
of the things that interest you. You may post blogs, have chat
conversations with registered members, share photos of yourself, and send emails to other
members. You can stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones. To sum
it up, myspace.com consists of a large community of more than 34 million
people that interact with each other on a constant basis. You can even
arrange dates with people that are members.
Sounds
like a great place to meet people.
For an adult, myspace is a great place to go if you want to meet new
people and have new experiences, but if you have a child that is going
to this web site you need to know exactly what they are doing, and what
other people know about your child.
What do you mean?
For example, let’s
say that your child has a myspace account. When your child creates
the
account they can pretty much enter what ever
they want, like their personal information. Most children do not understand
that providing personal information on the web is extremely dangerous
and unknowingly post it. They will blindly give their first and last
name, where they live, what school they go to, who their friends are,
what is the best time to reach them and even post a picture of themselves.
When a child makes information like that publicly known, they are placing
themselves in danger of abduction, murder, rape, drugs and a million
other things.
That is a frightening thought.
That alone should
be enough to alarm any parent, but wait, it gets much worse. Any person
that
goes to myspace.com can view more than just a
profile; they can read your child’s personal online diary, also
known as a blog. We know that teenagers have always written their deepest
and most personal feelings in a diary. With that being said, if a child
is writing delicate personal thoughts online for the world to see, couldn’t
someone use that information to manipulate and exploit them?
As a parent, you need to be on alert for that.
If a child is providing a person that has mal intent with personal information,
that person can easily use that to their advantage.
The profile of a pedophile is a perfect example of this.
We
all know that a pedophile stalks and carefully waits to attack a child.
We also know
that since
the dawn of internet, child molesters
have crawled out of the woodwork. They can use the information about
your child that is on myspace to locate, learn about and mislead your
child. Once they have this information, they can simply hop on myspace
chat with a fake profile they created that would match all of your child’s
interests and begin to have an open line of communication with them.
Once that line of communication has been established, the pedophile will
begin to use all of the information they have been freely given about
your child and exploit it to gain trust. When trust is established, the
predator will begin to test the waters for making an arrangement to meet
in person. When that happens, it is too late; your child could be another
statistic.
What can I do to protect my children?
If you have a child and you know or suspect that they are utilizing
myspace.com, your top priority should be making sure they are safe from
that kind of hazardous situation. If they are on myspace providing personal
information, you need to know EXACTLY what they have out there for the
world to see.
We
understand that you can not be chained to the computer every time your
child uses it, but we know someone who can. SpectorSoft has been making
child monitoring software since 1999 and they have a complete line
of computer tracking software
that will assist parents with regards to protecting their children from
online dangers.
Spector Pro is the BEST software for parents that will record ANYTHING that your child does on myspace.com.
You will see their myspace profile and if it has any personal information,
you can change it, and also educate your child to online dangers that
we have discussed in this article.
You
will be able to read EVERY email sent and received from their myspace
web mail to
make certain
that they are not being approached by the wrong
people. BOTH sides of myspace chat and instant messaging will also be
recorded and stored in a hidden location only you will know about.
Spector
Pro also has an advanced snapshot recording tool that will give you a
visual detail of EVERYTHING your child is doing and viewing on myspace.
Snapshot recording is the equivalent of standing over your child’s
shoulder the whole time they are online.
In addition to having ALL Myspace activity recorded, Spector Pro has an
advanced warning
system
that will inform you when a PC being monitored
has been used in an inappropriate manner. Through the use of keywords
that you specify, Spector Pro will be "on guard", emailing
you an immediate and detailed report of when, where and how a keyword
was used - every time it is typed or appears on the PC, on a website
or in an email. This will give you an immediate warning email if your
child is approached by, or looking at blogs and profiles that you do
not want them exposed too.
We believe that parents need to spend time with their children, especially
when they are surfing the Internet, but we also understand that you cannot
always be present when yourchild is online.
Spector Pro helps to bridge
that gap, by monitoring what your child does so that you can review this
at a later time.