Kids, Evil and MySpace
MySpace will have loads of negative publicity over this incident. Two teenagers, allegedly accused of murder, kept a dialog on MySpace:
“Bloggers have been blamed for lots of sins — but murder? On Feb. 3, 17-year-old Bryan Grove allegedly stabbed to death his girlfriend’s mother in the bedroom of her suburban Denver home. Friends say that he and Tess Damm, 15, hated Linda Damm because of her drinking. Police found Damm’s body, crammed into the trunk of a garaged car…”
link: Murder, They Blogged
If MySpace thought it was under scrutiny before this, there likely will be a security outcry, as this case proceeds. This will test the axiom about there being ‘no bad publicity’.
Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/
Tags: myspace, crime, teenagers, security, publicity, catherine forsythe
Funny, this dovetails with a recent rant I did about local (Philly) news. nbc10.com had a story to the effect of `Can surfing Myspace make your teen anorexic?’
The mad flight from personal responsibility is awe-inspiring. Websites don’t reach out from computer monitors and stick their fingers down people’s throats anymore than cars wrest control from their drivers or guns jump into a person’s hands and fire.
These misguided parents need to stop asking Big Brother to do their job for them. Watch your kids! If you have to tear yourself away from Americans Idle to learn how to operate a computer, it’s part of being a parent. Watch where your kids surf, as you (hopefully) watch where your kids GO.
Our founding fathers worked very hard to make this a country a place of freedom. As soon as you abdicate responsibility and cede to Big Brother, we trash the work done to make and keep this a free society.
-jeff