San Antonio Prank on MySpace

400 of the 3,000 students at a school in San Antonio showed up for school yesterday when a threat was posted on myspace.com

“About mid morning today we were able to confirm that the web site ‘MySpace-dot-com’ allowed several students to post threatening messages on it’s web site, messages threatening Warren High School,” Pascual Gonzales of the Northside School District said. “This message said two boys were planning to show up at school with guns.”

I hate that they are pointing fingers at myspace.com itself. I don’t like how they used the word “allowed”, thats just silly to think someone is going to monitor myspace.com for all its content.

“It just seems to me that if you put up a public web site, and you allow students, teenagers, minors to post their thoughts and ideas, and not monitor it in an adult manner, you are asking for trouble,” Gonzales said. “This particular web site has been a pain for all Bexar County schools for a long time now, and it just seems that the owners of MySpace-dot-com should be held accountable.”

I think the PARENTS should be monitoring their kids actions online and not sit there and blame a website because they don’t monitor it. This is one of the reasons why we don’t allow our daughter Caitlin on MySpace, not only is it a free for all on there, but kids will be kids and will post all sorts of stuff that we don’t fill is appropriate for our child. Do I think it should be monitored? No, why? well how can you monitor a website like that? 100’s of thousands of people.. hell millions even post on that site daily. You tell me how you would monitor that. My answer is simple, watch what your kids do online.

At my house we have “The Great Firewall of Jason” that blocks EVERYTHING out on the net except certain sites we allow our kids to go on. Yup just like the Great Firewall of China unless the kids ask for permission to access the site.

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