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MySpace isn’t making billions, but even if they were this is not their problem.

Sure, Google *could* offer you the ability to use a different name for the web pages, but to fulfill what you are asking, they would have to actually *prevent* the use of the email address for that purpose. It makes sense to use the email address, because that is already a unique identifier of that person within their system. Anyway, what’s to stop the kids from just including their email address on the page themselves?

If Google and myspace already have a policy that says you have to be 18 to sign up and use their services, then the kids that are using it now are already disregarding their rules. I don’t think you can (or should) ask them to do any more. You claim that the county is not responsible for people in the parks, but that web site owners are responsible for the people who visit their sites; I don’t think so.

I agree that their should be some education of the parents, but you can’t expect (or force) web site owners to pay for it.

Like I said before, the problem is NOT the avenue of communication that these people use to get in contact with kids; the problem is the sick people doing this and the lack of responsibility of the parents to supervise them. I’ll say again that it has NOTHING to do with the internet.

What are you going to do then about telephones, since criminals could easily call them and talk to them without their parents’ permission (if the parents allow it)? That is only one of a million ways people could make contact with kids, so there is no use in trying to fix the problem by putting a band aid in the wrong place.

Hey, for that matter, your blog is a place where anyone can come and engage in a conversation. So I guess you’re OK with taking the blame for any actions of anyone who makes contact with someone else through your blog? As the owner of the site, is it your responsibility to card everyone and verify that they’re old enough to talk to someone else?

JaredB says:

MySpace isn’t making billions, but even if they were this is not their problem.

I agree that their should be some education of the parents, but you can’t expect (or force) web site owners to pay for it.

JaredB says:

MySpace isn’t making billions, but even if they were this is not their problem.

I agree that their should be some education of the parents, but you can’t expect (or force) web site owners to pay for it.

JaredB says:

MySpace isn’t making billions, but even if they were this is not their problem.

I agree that their should be some education of the parents, but you can’t expect (or force) web site owners to pay for it.

Dan says:

I had a witty little knock but I will just say ~~two~~ three things. 1) Your analogies are over board and don’t represent my point or advance the conversation 2) Blatant tools that are used by criminals including pedophiles should be reviewed by the distributors themselves to prevent further misuse and if options are found it should be necessary. The internet is free to be you and me, yippee, but I’d give up my crazy cool unique name for a googlepages subdomain if it helps protect one child from an attempted contact by a predator even if you could blame their parents.

Dan says:

I had a witty little knock but I will just say<strike> two</strike> three things. 1) Your analogies are over board and don’t represent my point or advance the conversation 2) Blatant tools that are used by criminals including pedophiles should be reviewed by the distributors themselves to prevent further misuse and if options are found it should be necessary. The internet is free to be you and me, yippee, but I’d give up my crazy cool unique name for a googlepages subdomain if it helps protect one child from an attempted contact by a predator even if you could blame their parents.

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JaredB says:

1. I don’t think my analogies are overboard. They do address your point, if your point is that Google and/or myspace should be responsible for this kind of thing. If that wasn’t your point, then I guess I am off track.

2. But that’s exactly my point; you’re singling out certain “tools” that are used. There are many such “tools” that I’ve referenced in my supposedly irrelevant analogies. My point is to pick and choose (and blame) only those tools that are somehow related to the internet is flawed logic.

3. If you think that the naming convention for Google pages is in any way going to contribute to the likelihood of this sort of thing, due to the fact that they could get contacted via email, then you should be arguing that it should be illegal for kids to have email addresses at all, not a side issue like Google pages’ naming convention.

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Dan says:

Well I strongly disagree and I’m viewing this totally different. I’m not blaming the internet, I’m actually not blaming anyone, I just think there is a problem and it should be looked at. And even though I agree with you that the responsibility lies in the hands of the parents that assumption doesn’t work for every family IMHO so in my point of view I see more then one contributing factor (contributing factor does not equal being responsible).

We disagree but that’s fine, I rather not drag it on because I really would hate to hear another, “then you should be” or a “So I guess you’re”.

Dan says:

We disagree but that’s fine, I rather not drag it on because I really would hate to hear another, “then you should be” or a “So I guess you’re”.

Dan says:

We disagree but that’s fine, I rather not drag it on because I really would hate to hear another, “then you should be” or a “So I guess you’re”.

Dan says: