MySpace donates sex offender database to center

New database combines state registries; National Center for Missing & Exploited Children says it will use information to help law enforcement.

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[ReVeLaTeD]

I really hate MySpace.

IT's a cesspool. Bonafide cesspool. For the most part, you see a bunch of clearly underage or "just graduated" kids talking about unspeakable things. I saw one where she just turned 18, had a questionnaire that asked if she had sex, to which she replied "well, look at me lol". As if to say, I'm so cute that of course I'm going to have premature sex and risk an STD because I look so good. Yes, she's 18 and old enough to choose, but in my opinion, it's sad that an 18 year old girl has already had sex. That's just how I feel about it. I believe girls shouldn't even think about having sex until they're at least 21.

But I digress. Yes, there are some people who use MySpace as it was intended, but there are a lot more kids on that site than is to be believed. More kids = more risk for predators, and you can look at convicted pedophiles all you want...there are a LOT more who were never convicted that aren't caught.

[lwrules]

Get a clue

>I believe girls shouldn't even think about
>having sex until they're at least 21.

And what planet do you live on?

[paulsecic]

ditto

Junk.

[rmcbtb]

I really hate...

people who sue MySpace for negligence when last time I
checked it wasn't a babysitting service and parents are
responsible for making sure their idiot kids don't meet up with
people from the internet. Why is no one suing the parents for
negligence?

[Wilby23]

Im Tired Of This

Im tired of how people speak badly about myspace, before giving it a chance, and are always thinking about the statistics, look, just because a a couple of kids are stupid enough to talk wit older, suspicious man, and meet people that they don't know, its not myspaces fault. But im happy that there getting rid of all the sex offender profiles, because maybe than, people would stop talking so badly about myspace, but i know how some people are, they fix one problem, that person finds another. But as we all know its the parents responsibility to monitor there kids (mostly young girls) and i've been using myspace for about two years, and never came across a sex offendor, maybe its cause im a guy, and my friends are smart enough only to have people they know, and do not add just anybody, because they are well educated, im 14, and my age may ruin my argument, but im not stupid, and myspace is a place for me to talk to my friends when im bored, socialize, nothing else i dont talk to anyone over 16 unless i know them, and my friends do the same, and for extra protection all my friends that are girls profile is set to private. So please, stop blaming myspace, stop hating on myspace, for reasons that happen to stupid kids that feel as if they have to meet people they don't know to have a good time, then run to there parents talking about how bad myspace is, because they were using it wrong, please take this to consideration theres alot more I could say from all the other things I read abput myspace, but ima stop here

[lcromwell34289]

Does this mean that they donated their membership database?

After all, MySpace IS a pretty good sex offender database.