Taylor 1 English 151 15 February2009 Social Networking: magazines “social networking sites a parent’s worst nightmare”, “the how too when it comes to teens, MySpace, and Facebook” “girl found dead from a hoax played on MySpace”. These successful in creating programs to keep the young people safe. They have attempted to try but there are ways around everything that all the teens know about. The next concerns with these victims each day. The amounts of things that are going on, on these sites are scary. What is even scarier is how the children that are the ones being abused are and would react. Finally the last thing is what the information that these young people put on their pages is being used for. The information that is only meant to be harmless fun can impact these young people in possible future employment and trying to get in to colleges. Below you are going to read some of the growing concerns and information researched in each one of the problems areas listed above. Hopefully it will give you some things to think about when considering letting your young Taylor 2 and limitations on what their youngsters can and can’t do while on the network but, the problem There is a way for these children to create and maintain a “dummy” site: one for the parent’s eyes and one that the parent’s are never intended to see. What these kids don’t understand is that there are reasons on why these sites have these safety options. It’s not that parents just have nothing better to do and just want to be noise. It is all over the news about young teens on social networking sites being stalked by pedophiles it is a parent’s worst nightmare. What these young people may not realize is that page viewers are not limited to just friends in their clique. So, if these kids think posting exotic pictures or scenes depicting inappropriate or illegal activities will be harmless fun between internet friends, they should think again. Although most of these...