I thought the articles that we read had some of the same things in common: sex offenders and privacy. In the first article, “Counting Sex Offenders in MySpace,” they were counting how many sex offenders were registered on their site. They found 7,000 in May and 29,000 now. That’s a big number and even though that’s out of 180 million, I would not feel safe having a MySpace profile. I remember that some kids let other people look at their profile and they talked to them even though they didn’t know who they were and ended up getting hurt. One girl that they talked about in one of the articles was solicited by a guy who met her online. My friend who has a MySpace page told me that there is an option that lets only your friends in. I don’t believe that will keep you 100% safe with all the computer hackers in the world, but she feels safe and I hope nothing bad happens to her.

Also, in one of the articles they said that pretty much everybody is allowed a MySpace page except for children under 14. I didn’t know about that rule so I know that the friend I talked about in the previous paragraph was not 14 when she made her page because she won’t be 14 until September and she already has had a page for a while. I don’t have one and I probably never will which is fine with me.
Other friends that I know have MySpace pages and other pages from other sites, such as Bebo, Black Planet, Facebook, and others that I can’t remember the names of right now. Which reminds me, I would not want a Facebook either, but one of my friends says she doesn’t like a feature on Facebook called “Honesty Box” where people can say anything they want to you and it shows up in that box but you have the option to delete it and my friend said she would. Some people put their actual pictures on those pages which I would not do. Some people are just plain crazy and they put all their information out there, thinking no one will find them and do something to them. Some people put pictures of other people and try to be them which is not safe to the person who it’s a picture of.

All in all, I wish the best to all the people with pages on sites like MySpace. Remember: Don’t put all your information on the Internet; it’s not that safe of a place.