Myspace

Our class had an assignment to read two essays about Myspace. The one I chose to talk about was Myspace and Sex Offenders. The essay talk this man, Kevin Poulsen, who ran an experiment and match up database register sex offenders with Myspace profiles and found hundreds of matches. After Kevin story got out, Myspace ended up removing 7,000 profiles that might have belonged to registered sex offenders. They were able to find these people because they used their real name on their profile which doesn't help them out, in the end Myspace is slowly finding a way to block sex offenders from their website. After reading this essay I was happy that  Myspace is starting to do something about having sex offenders on their site, I think all site like Myspace and Facebook should do that, it will be safer for everyone who uses these site and also for children who don't think about who they are adding as a friend.In some ways I feel like there are  some sex offenders who shouldn't even have access to a computer at all.