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What MySpace is Doing to Protect Others From Hoaxes

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

MySpace has over three hundred million users on its social network; adults, teenagers, and young children. After the Megan Meier MySpace hoax many parents became increasingly concerned about the safety of their young children and teenagers using not only MySpace, but other social networking web sites as well. To meet the overwhelming concern by its [...]

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Protecting Your Children From Being Victims from Social Networking Hoaxes

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

Social networking has become one of the most popular ways to find friends, family, and form new relationships with people all over the world. You can use social networks to write journal entries, post pictures for family and friends to see, and join social network groups with millions around the country. There is a growing [...]

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How this MySpace Hoax Affected Safety Policies and Law in Social Networking

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

Social networking is a term used to describe a recent trend in websites which has also been referred to as an online community. There are many things users can do at these online communities like post journals, find friends and family, and generate relationships with people all over the world with others who use the [...]

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How the Megan Meier Suicide Affected Other MySpace Users

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

MySpace is one of many social networking web sites on the Internet today that over seventy million people use. Social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have made it so that people all over the world can find friends and family members as well as join different groups with many different people. The tragedy [...]

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A Brief Look at the Effects of the Megan Meier MySpace Suicide

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

Many people have been weighing the pros and cons about social networking ever since the Megan Meier hoax on MySpace in 2006. MySpace has faced some serious scrutiny as to safety measures that need to be taken in order for this type of thing not to happen. The Megan Meier hoax has affected all sorts [...]

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Why Texas Held Out on the Safety Deal with Facebook

by Barbara J. Feldman July 23, 2008

The second largest social networking web site has agreed to raise the bar on their safety measures in order to better protect its users. It has come to this agreement with forty nine of the states and the District of Columbia and has agreed to adopt new safety standards to help more specifically to protect [...]

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