Private profiles for everyone on MySpace!
NetFamilyNews reports a MySpace announcement that starting next week, all users will have the option to make their profile private! This is an excellent change we’ve advocated ever since we began studying MySpace.com.
As of 6 months ago, members who were 14-17 years old had an option to make their profile private, but to do this they had to know how to navigate the MySpace account settings. As a result, almost no teens had private profiles.
In early May, MySpace made a surprising change, whereby 14 and 15 year olds were given private profiles by default (to make their profile public they had to navigate the account settings menus) — but they took away the option for 16 and 17 year olds to have private profiles! Starting at age 16, you had the same visibility as an adult. This made no sense whatsoever.
The new change, where all MySpace users will be able to set their profile to private, is very welcome.
For more information, see the Washington Post article “MySpace bolsters defenses, faces sex predator suit”.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
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