Myspace

1
Myspace

• Tony Horton, josh Goodell,
• Kevin Leslie

2
MySpace

• Public networking website (1)
• Users create profiles and blogs (1)
• Home to millions of users world-wide
• Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolf (2)
• Created July 2003
• Bought by News Corporation in 2005 (2)

3
Social Relationships

• Users are more open
• Truths are easily stretched
• Effects of new friendships (3)
• Lack of In depth human interactions/relationships

4
Is Family Life Affected?

• Conflict between parents and children
• Profile content (4)
• Trust and privacy issues
• Harmful distraction (4)

5
MySpace Users Safe or in Danger?

• Phishing profiles (5)
• Spy ware runs rampant (6)
• Some users are under the required 14 years of age
• Users are easy targets for predators (7)
• MySpace Video (8)

6
MySpace Predators

• Many users (especially young users) post private
  information and they dont understand that a
  predator could be looking at it and tracking
  them (MSNBC)
• Many kidnappings, rapes, and murders are linked
  to MySpace

7
Conclusion

• MySpace is very popular and still growing
• Affects social relationships and family life
• Dangerous for users not familiar with the
  internet
• Some weak security features

8
Resources

• http//www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/AboutU
  s.aspx
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpaceHistory
• http//www.qnun.com/articles/myspace_the_top_of_wo
  rld.php
• http//www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50
  /b3963001.htm
• http//news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/10/27/myspa
  ce_accounts_compromised_by_phishers.html
• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14413906/
• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11165576/

9
Resources

• http//video.yahoo.com/video/play?pmyspacepredat
  orstoggle1copmsseiUTF-8b1oid15086b129b5d
  aaearurlabcnews.go.comvdonehttp3A2F2Fvideo.
  yahoo.com2Fsearch2Fvideo3Fp3Dmyspace2Bpredato
  rs26toggle3D126cop3Dmss26ei3DUTF-8
• http//www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_the_a
  lm.php
• http//www.tdn.com/articles/2006/01/22/top_story/n
  ews01.txt
• http//www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-01-08-myspa
  ce-teens_x.htm