MySpace.com is a parent’s nightmare and a sexual predator’s dream...MySpace is one of the hottest Web sites around. It’s got 54 million members. It’s gaining 150,000 new ones each day. Punch in the zip code for Middletown and you find 3,000 MySpace members within 10 miles...Today’s kids are the first generation to grow up online – where there are more than 52,000 sites containing child pornography. Kids, especially adolescents, are naturally curious, particularly about sex, says Kelly McBride, an ethics expert at the journalism think tank, the Poynter Institute. They always have been. The difference now is this: “Kids are basically using the Internet to grow up,” she says...More of this article...Search Google News for more quotes by Kelly McBride...
MySpace is one of the hottest Web sites around. It’s got 54 million members. It’s gaining 150,000 new ones each day. Punch in the zip code for Middletown and you find 3,000 MySpace members within 10 miles...
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