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My friends daughter, is 16 and has a myspace it is private. Is it safe for a 16 yr old girl to have a myspace.? She says she only adds celebs, and friends! She has pics of her on it. Thank you for your time.

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I have seen some really raunchy stuff on myspace. I would not want my

child on it

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As long as it is private, it wont be open to the public and only the people under her friends list will be allowed to see her profile. As long as she doesnt add people she doesnt know, she'll be fine. This is what it'll look like if you try to look at someone's myspace and it is set to private: http://www.myspace.com/misssantos

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yea its ok fo a 16 year old.

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Well if it's private and she's only adding friends then she should be fine.

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i dont like myspace and feel it will be misused by some people. it is a place where for pervets to hang.

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if it's on private, there's not much harm in it unless she's adding people that are shady on it; then they have access to her info.

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Myspace is perfectly safe for people of all ages, she just needs to know to keep her online friends online, and not to try to meet them in person. And by having the profile set to private is actually a good thing(mine is set to private as well, and Im 20) the privacy setting allows only friends to view your information and pictures.

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As long as she never gives out personal information

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16? yeah thats just fine

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There is nothing wrong for a 16 year old to have a myspace. Even if its private.

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She is probably having unprotected sex with some1 she met online as we speak!!!

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As long as she's keeping her profile from other users. She can also have different passwords that people have to enter to add her as a friend. I've seen that on 1 profile so far. As long as she is being monitored here and there it should be okay.

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Generally it is safe; just as long as she's not passing out addresses or phone numbers without her parents permission. The profile is private? That means that unless she puts them on her friends thing they can't see detailed info on her profile.

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As long as it stays private and she watches who she adds.

Word to the wise: Some profiles that claim to be celebrities aren't really who they say they are so watch out.

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If you're worried, get your own myspace accout %26amp; insist that your daughter add you so you can keep an eye on what she is posting. I personally feel private is worse....it allows her to hide things from YOU, not people that are on myspace. If someone really wanted to see her info, all they would have to do is request to see it. You said she only allows friends %26amp; celebs...um...celebs? Right. Because we all know celebs have nothing better to do with their time than talk to your 16 year old daughter. Money says those "celebs" are the people you should be worried about. And do you know all her friends?? Make sure all of her 'friends' are people you've actually heard of.

Having said all that....I think 16 is old enough to have a public myspace account. Educate her on internet safety %26amp; a little trust goes a long way.

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I have a myspace...I am 15....well it all depends on how she was raised...my mom is not to crazy about me having a myspace...but she raised me right...there r some 13 year old girls and they well get in front of a webcam and some of them well take off of there clothes!!!i think that is so wrong!!!if you want..there is this thing on myspace that you can get your child's myspace off...but if she is good and she does not have any inappropriate pics an weird comments you should look into it and get her myspace off...

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Honestly perverts and sexual predators will be on any website. Singling out Myspace seems a bit unfair, it happens on Yahoo too. Even if the 16 year old did not have her profile set to private, so long as she doesn't give out her address or phone number, she should be relatively safe. It's typically a smart idea to leave online friends as online, not offline.

Myspace has been hit with bad PR because it's a big website. Since it's a social website, people use it to reach out to the world and to others. Robbery, suicide, and murder all occur daily, and since Myspace reportedly has over 70 million members it's not a shocker that their members experience one of the three here and there.

In the sources section:

There's a news story about two teenage girls, 14 and 15, that attempted to rob a man at gunpoint.

There's an article about a 20 year old soldier in Georgia that committed suicide after leaving his suicide note on his Myspace.

There's a website in memory of Anna Svidersky, a Washington girl that was murdered while working at McDonald's.

The final link is a CBS new story regarding Myspace. In the end it says to keep your children off the website because "[i]t's a very unsafe environment for them to be in." At the same time keep in mind that reality is an unsafe environment. You could be crossing a street and hit by a car, walking to the mailbox and abducted, or even just eating breakfast and choke to death.

From the CBS link....

"Just like a car accident, it can happen to you," says high school student Julia Rinaldi. "Predators can come to you 閳?and that's what they don't think when they post those things."

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its fine, because if its private, only her frieds can see, and celebs bare barely ever on myspace, so they wont like take her personal information or anything...

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Check out the Safety Tips links at the bottom of every MySpace page. Make sure your daughter lists her age correctly on MySpace, as she may have additional privacy settings. Open communication is what will keep her safe!! :)