MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users 251
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "'When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The good news: Traffic nearly doubled in the last half of last year. The bad news: MySpace is being criticized for exposing children to risqué content and sexual predators. In response, 'News Corp. plans to appoint a "safety czar" to oversee the site, launch an education campaign that may include letters to schools and public-service announcements to encourage children not to reveal their contact information."
MySpace PSAs? (Score:5, Funny)
Shoot. (Score:5, Funny)
I guess it's back to trenchcoats, candy, and schoolyards for me.
responsible design (Score:1, Funny)
MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users (Score:5, Funny)
Step 2. Deleting all profiles that use the word "like" more than twice
Step 3. DeLeTiNg AlL PrOfIlEs ThAt LoOk LiKe ThIs
Step 4. Making MySpace safe from internet predators
Step 6. Profit!
And yes, I want it done in that goddamn order.
Re:What it is with this Administration and Czars? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at least they'll be welcomed.
new url (Score:2, Funny)
Good Candidate for Safety Czar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shoot. (Score:4, Funny)
Some female teacher happened to be walking by at the same moment and she was holding a small bowl with some candy in it.
She kinda waved it around and said "free candy, please take it, I don't want to have to eat it."
Now, she had stopped almost exactly in front of me, but on the other side of the hall. It took all my willpower not to blurt out "My mother told me to never take candy from strangers."
Re:responsible design (Score:2, Funny)
I recently changed how my site dishes out most pictures [grub.net] with PHP. Picture thieves (or those with broken referrers) get a nice view of goatse guy.
Re:MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users (Score:5, Funny)
Re:responsible design (Score:5, Funny)
Suddenly myspace was flooded with them, mass bannings occurred, and we all had a great laugh.
Myspace needs to get their own image hosting that automatically parses hotlinks and caches them on the server...it would save their idi...umm...novice users a lot of grief.
Re:MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users (Score:2, Funny)
You mean, profiles like: "I like programming very much, esp. with languages like Lisp and Scheme"?
What will he prevent? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Parents (Score:3, Funny)
and if Lifetime Original Movies are to be believed, those kidnappings, rapes, and/or murders are likely to be carried out by Judd Nelson.
Re:Parents (Score:2, Funny)
Ironically, running News Corp. But won't someone think of the children and the poetry they MUST publish? Insert trillions of anime-ish emoticons here showing the sadness.
Re:What it is with this Administration and Czars? (Score:5, Funny)
Well the runners up were:
Lord Safety
Prince Safety
King Safety
Emperor of Safety
Der Safety Fuer
Il Safety Duce
People's Chairman of Safety
Premiere Safety
President Safety for Life
Re:Good Candidate for Safety Czar (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.myspace.com/safetyczar [myspace.com]
Re:MySpace To Be Made Safer For Users (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry! An unexpected error has occurred.
This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group.
Michael Brown is your man! (Score:4, Funny)
-Eric
Re:What do you mean exposing children to predators (Score:3, Funny)
EMO KIDS (Score:2, Funny)
I also think Myspace is like a Lazy Man's Blog.. creeps rather check out how their lady friends are "looking" instead of reading about how they're "doing".. just another source of anonymity for stalkers.. screw SpySpace..