MySpaceSafetyTips.com

MySpace is one of a class of web sites that are termed “social networking” sites. People are given a web address where they can post information about themselves, and they can very conveniently contact other people on the same social networking site. Similar sites include Xanga.com, Friendster.com, and Facebook.com. The popularity of social networking sites continues to grow. For example, Yahoo! is inviting all of their Yahoo! Mail users to try out their new Yahoo! 360 (beta) service. MySpace.com is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which purchased the site for $580 million from Intermix Media July 2005. Since the News Corp buy-out, much has improved at MySpace. Enhanced technology resources are more effectively meeting the site’s ever-growing bandwidth requirements. Additional scrutiny of member sites is being applied, and the accounts of members who posting pornography or hate content are being deleted. There is a new commitment to addressing safety-related issues. And, enhanced customer service resources are making it much easier for people to contact MySpace for problems that require human intervention (such as deleting accounts of underage users and addressing identity theft).